Publications

Brief
Tanzania: Cost effective options for inclusive and sustainable development

Journal Article
Maize yield responsiveness and profitability of fertilizer: New survey evidence from six African countries

Journal Article
Do youth work in agriculture? Short-term dynamics of on-farm rural youth employment in Tanzania and Malawi
Datasets
Dataset
2022 Social Accounting Matrix for Tanzania
Dataset
Drivers of Pigeon Peas Consumption Among School Aged Children in Central Tanzania
Dataset
Tanzania Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small-Scale Irrigation (ILSSI) Endline Survey, 2017
Blogs

Applying the Women’s Empowerment Metric in National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) to build gender equity
A tool to collect key data sometimes missing from household surveys.

Transforming rural livelihoods: Lessons from the Africa RISING program
Improving smallholder farming systems in four countries.

Adapt, assess, progress: Integrating measures of women’s empowerment into rural development projects
A new tool developed by IFPRI and IFAD.
Events

23rd International Congress of Nutrition (ICN)
IFPRI is participating in the 23rd International Congress of Nutrition (ICN), hosted by the International Union of Nutritional Sciences (IUNS) on August 24-29 in Paris, France. The theme of this year’s congress is “Sustainable Food for Global Health,” bringing together experts to discuss evidence and innovations in nutrition, sustainability, food science, and public health. IFPRI […]

10th annual Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (ANH) Academy Week
IFPRI is participating in the 10th annual Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (ANH) Academy Week from June 16-26, 2025. The ANH Academy Week is a series of annual events that bring together the community of researchers, practitioners and policymakers working at the intersection of agriculture, food systems, nutrition and health. The objective of the ANH Academy […]

Fruit & Vegetables for Sustainable Healthy Diets: 2024 FRESH Science Conference
Poor diets are a primary cause of malnutrition and the leading cause of disease worldwide. Improving diets, especially through increasing fruit and vegetable intake, can help to address these health and nutrition challenges. However, fruit and vegetable intake falls below recommended levels globally. The factors contributing to low fruit and vegetable consumption are complex, requiring […]
News
Food prices are rising as countries limit exports. Blame climate change, El Nino and Russia’s war (Associated Press)
“Countries have imposed restrictions on the food they export to protect their own supplies from the combined effect of the war in Ukraine, El Nino’s threat to food production and increasing damage from climate change,” writes the Associated Press. “Tanzania’s onion limits this year are part of the “contagion” of food restrictions from countries spooked by supply […]
Women key to crop success in low-income countries
This post is a slightly modified version of the original press release issued by the University of Edinburgh. Empowering women farmers in low and middle-income countries can lead to greater crop diversity helping to improve year-round supply of healthy foods, suggests a new article published in The Lancet Planetary Health by a group of authors including […]
Editorial: Empower women to grow (The Lancet Planetary Health)
“Almost half of the world’s agricultural workers are women and women farmers produce up to 80% of the food grown in LMICs. Despite their large contribution to agricultural labor, fewer than 20% of landowners globally are women,” writes The Lancet Planetary Health in an editorial featuring a new article co-authored by IFPRI’s Lilia Bliznashka, Aulo Gelli, and […]