Blogs

How school meals are transforming education in Zamfara State, Nigeria
Scaling up a promising program.

How AI can help reduce food loss and waste in Nigeria’s tomato value chain
Using photos to analyze when and where produce goes bad.

Irrigation as a service: Expanding water access for smallholder and women farmers
“Where water flows, equality grows”—World Water Day 2025.
Events

High-Level Partners Roundtable: Keys to strengthening institutions and investments in climate-smart agri-food systems to improve smallholder livelihoods in Africa
In-Person Special Event: April 9, 2024 – 4:30 PM- 6:00 PM EDT. In this roundtable, speakers will reflect on the broader context of food systems transformation, emphasizing the importance of partnerships, learning, and actionable insights in addressing food insecurity and climate resilience in Africa.

2023 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting
Event: July 23, 2023 – 8:30 AM to July 25, 2023 – 4:15 PM EDT. IFPRI is participating in the 2023 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting.

Irregular Migration and Food Security: A View from West Africa
Event: July 20, 2023 – 9:30 AM- 11:00 AM EDT. This seminar will present study results and the website, with discussion by researchers from IFPRI, WFP, and MIT as well as other experts.
News
Hunger crisis is set to get worse in west and central Africa – why and what to do about it (The Conversation)
Countries in west and central Africa are facing a food crisis with multiple causes. Estimates in late December 2025 suggested that 41.8 million people were already in crisis or worse in October-December 2025.
IFAD, WFP call for sustainable commitments to address food crisis in West Africa (HumAngle)
HumAngle published an article that said the present food crisis is said to be due to limited food production, and barriers to regional trade, among others, which could be directly linked to the ongoing war in Ukraine that is disrupting global food trade. An analysis by IFPRI (see IFPRI blog post, West Africa faces mixed […]
West Africa faces mixed food security impacts from the Russia-Ukraine conflict (Telos)
Telos (France) published an op-ed by senior research fellows Antoine Bouet and David Laborde, and research fellow Fousseini Traoré about how food security in West Africa has been deteriorating since 2015. Now, like the rest of the world, the region faces rapidly growing impacts from Russia’s war in Ukraine, including spiking food prices and disruptions […]
Projects

Support for the Domestication of the Kampala CAADP Declaration
This project provides technical, analytical, and capacity building support to enable African Union (AU) Member States and Regional Economic Communities (RECs) to domesticate the Kampala……






