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Join us at IFPRI for a high-level seminar that brings together researchers, policymakers, development partners, and leading food systems thinkers who have helped deliver science-based impact around the world to explore:
- The role of food policy research in shaping past policies, programs, and investments
- Emerging research questions and challenges in a rapidly shifting global landscape
- How research and outreach must adapt to strengthen pathways from evidence to impact
- How research institutions can adapt to remain responsive in a rapidly changing world
To mark IFPRI’s 50th anniversary, the event will also celebrate the contributions of the Institute’s alumni and launch the Institute’s new research strategy.
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Unpacking the effects of conflict on fertilizer use and maize yields: Empirical evidence from Nigeria: Mulubrhan Amare, Kwaw S. Andam, Bedru Balana, Opeyemi Olanrewaju, and Steven Were Omamo analyze how maize yield responds to fertilizer use and assess the profitability of fertilizer use in conflict-affected settings. The study found that yield responses to nitrogen are very low in Nigeria and that exposure to conflict reduces input use rates and decreases the marginal physical productivity of nitrogen in maize production, making investment in fertilizer less profitable. (Read article in Agricultural Economics)
Dietary intake and nutrient adequacies among women of reproductive age in northern Tanzania: A cross-sectional study: Dietary inadequacies among women of reproductive age (WRA) can increase malnutrition and disease risk. Lilia Bliznashka, Deanna K Olney, and co-authors characterized food group and nutrient inadequacies among WRA in rural Tanzania and found that substantial nutrient inadequacies exist due to high cereal intake and low intake of fruits and vegetables as well as animal-source foods. (Read article in Journal of Nutrition)
The role of genotyping in measuring improved variety adoption and impact: Advances, challenges, and policy directions: David Spielman and co-authors examine the emerging role of genotyping, particularly DNA fingerprinting, as a complementary method for varietal identification and adoption measurement. The study found that genotyping has consistently revealed substantial misclassification and misidentification of varieties when compared to farmer self-reports. (Read article in Food Policy)
Exploring rancidity in pearl millet flour: A lipidomic and biochemical approach: Pearl millet is a nutritious and climate-resilient cereal that, despite its exceptional nutritional qualities, suffers from limited acceptance, partly due to the short shelf life of its milled flour. The results of this study by Victor Taleon and co-authors suggest that heat treatment could help improve the shelf life of iron-rich pearl millet grains on a smaller scale, but a better solution is still needed for large-scale commercialization and to monitor this key trait in released varieties without compromising their nutritional content. (Read article in Journal of Cereal Science)
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💻 Blog Series: AI For Food Systems Research
How accurately do the large language models (LLMs) powering chatbots respond to questions on gender equality and women’s empowerment in Indian agriculture?
By Marilia Magalhaes, Niyati Singaraju, and Jawoo Koo
🏷️IFPRI Topics: Agricultural Extension Artificial Intelligence (AI) Gender
Beyond the algorithm: The need for farmer participation and data justice in digital agricultural technology
By Ayorinde Ogunyiola
🏷️IFPRI Topics: Agricultural Extension Artificial Intelligence (AI) Governance
⚡ Blog Series: Conflicts and Other Shocks Impacting Food Systems
IPC: Famine and food insecurity spread in Sudan as humanitarian crisis worsens
By Khalid Siddig and Steven Were Omamo
🏷️IFPRI Topics: Food Crises Food Security Fragility and Conflict
🔍 Research Posts
Bridging the gap: Unlocking intermediary bottlenecks for small-scale irrigation through human-centered design in Nigeria
By Bedru Balana, Augustine Iraoya, Abba Aminu, Musa T. Yakasai, and Claudia Ringler
🏷️IFPRI Topics: Environment and Natural Resources Water and Irrigation Policy and Institutions
Growth monitoring and promotion as an opportunity to improve early childhood development
By Leila M. Larson, Edward A. Frongillo, Rebecca Brander, Marie Ruel, and Jef L. Leroy
🏷️IFPRI Topics: Health Nutrition
Signaling, screening, or sunk costs? Experimental evidence on how prices affect agricultural technology adoption in East Africa
By Bjorn Van Campenhout, Gashaw Abate, Liesbeth Colen, and Berber Kramer
🏷️IFPRI Topics: Agriculture Production
All in together? How communities contribute to school meals programs
By James Allen IV, Naureen Karachiwalla, and Deboleena Rakshit
🏷️IFPRI Topics: Poverty Social Protection
Building smallholder farmers’ resilience through index insurance in Kenya
By Anne G. Timu, Kennedy Anahinga, Eileen Bureza, and Liangzhi You
🏷️IFPRI Topics: Resilience Risk and Insurance
🎤 Event Posts
Governing sustainable, climate-resilient, and equitable urban and peri-urban food systems transformations
By Aditi Chugh and Danielle Resnick
🏷️IFPRI Topics: Food Systems Governance
Women at the center: Strengthening empowerment in fragile food systems
By Katrina Kosec
🏷️IFPRI Topics: Food Systems Fragility and Conflict Gender |
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2025 marks the 50th anniversary of IFPRI. As part of our virtual celebration on IFPRI social media, we are sharing select IFPRI innovations that supported evolving food systems.
Check out the latest posts about IFPRI’s work on research which introduced the notion of the double burden of malnutrition as well as picture-based crop insurance and cash transfers to reduce intimate partner violence. See more IFPRI@50 Innovations here!
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IFPRI and Digital Green expand collaboration to test AI innovations for smallholder farmers
Building on years of joint research on digital extension, the collaboration will now focus on user testing of Digital Green’s FarmerChat application as part of IFPRI’s Generative AI for Agriculture (GAIA) initiative.
Smartphones, women’s rights and coupons: New trends that can boost insurance for African farmers The Conversation published this article by Berber Kramer and Ruth Vargas Hill on how new, innovative forms of insurance could help insure farmers against weather shocks, and how South Africa’s G20 presidency can support these initiatives.
FAO roots for reforms to mainstream women in food systems KBC Business interviewed Agnes Quisumbing on women’s empowerment and credit access in this video on a recent event held in Nairobi, Kenya on December 2, co-organized by FAO and IFPRI. “Credit access continues to be a challenge,” Quisumbing said. “I think there has been a lot of progress in developing ways for women to access credit without collateral, through group-based programs, but I actually think what’s more important, and what is captured by the instrument, is not only credit but also financial services that enable women to save and to control their savings.”
Cash transfers and agency: What Nigerian couples reveal about household power VoxDev published this article by Mehrab Bakhtiar, Marcel Fafchamps, Markus Goldtein, Kenneth Leonard, and Sreelakshmi Papineni on cash transfers to women in Nigeria. Their study of married couples in rural Nigeria found that cash transfers increase women’s desire for decision-making power, but only when husbands can’t see it – revealing the complex interplay between economic empowerment and social norms.
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December 10, 2025, 10:00 – 11:00 am (US/Eastern)
