Publications

Brief
Coping with crisis: Livelihood vulnerabilities and food insecurity in Sudan’s current conflict

Report
Essential commodities prices, availability, and market actors’ perceptions: June 2025

Opinion Piece
Sudan’s war is an economic disaster: Here’s how bad it could get
Datasets
Dataset
2021 Social Accounting Matrix for Sudan
Dataset
2019 Social Accounting Matrix for Sudan
Dataset
2019 Social Accounting Matrix for Sudan
Blogs

Conference: Sudan’s two years of crisis—impact and pathways to recovery and resilience
Insights from recent research and organizations on the ground.

Sudan’s catastrophe: Farmers could offer quick postwar recovery, if peace is found
Charting economic paths forward.

Sudan’s food crisis deepens as conflict intensifies
A new famine warning.
Events

Two Years of Crisis: Impact and Pathways to Recovery and Resilience
The Sudan conflict, now entering its third year, continues to devastate the country’s socioeconomic fabric. As of January 2025, more than 8.8 million people were internally displaced, and over 3.3 million had sought refuge in neighboring countries. Conservative reports estimate over 32,000 fatalities occurred between the start of the war on April 15, 2023, and […]

The Socio-Economic Impact of Armed Conflict on Sudanese Urban Households
The ongoing conflict in Sudan has been concentrated in cities, with major impacts on urban households. Large numbers of families are displaced, employment is down dramatically, and most children are unable to go to school. A comprehensive survey conducted earlier this year by IFPRI’ Sudan Strategy Support Program and the United Nations Development Programme provides […]

Famines and Fragility: Making humanitarian, developmental, and peacebuilding responses work
Virtual Event: June 11, 2024 – 9:30 AM- 11:15 AM EDT. This seminar will take stock of what we know of key drivers about protracted food crises and persistent fragility and about the obstacles to successful HDP action.
News
Sudan’s prolonged conflict could slash GDP by over 40% and push millions deeper into poverty, new IFPRI study warns
A new study finds that if Sudan’s conflict continues through the end of 2025, the country could face catastrophic economic losses, widespread unemployment, and a dramatic rise in poverty, with women and rural populations hit hardest.
New Study: Short-term humanitarian aid alone insufficient to address severe deterioration in employment, income, access to essential services and food security.
Economic revival, social protection, and infrastructure rehabilitation are critical for urban recovery in Sudan. Nairobi, 12 November 2024 – Eighteen months of war have deeply affected urban households in Sudan: 31 percent have been displaced, full-time employment has plummeted by half, over 70 percent of the urban households in Sudan had all or some of […]
Sudan’s catastrophe: farmers could offer quick post-war recovery, if peace is found
Despite the stark reality, there is a potential path forward for Sudan, believe IFPRI experts.