Strengthening women’s and girls’ climate resilience through social protection
Systemic inequalities in access to resources, services, and decision‑making limit women’s and girls’ ability to adapt to climate change. Melissa Hidrobo, Valerie Mueller, Shalini Roy, Elizabeth Bryan, and colleagues present a new conceptual framework showing how social assistance programs can strengthen women’s and girls’ coping, adaptive, and mitigative responses to climate hazards. (Food Policy)
 

Ozone pollution reduction partially offsets the negative impact of climate change mitigation efforts on global hunger
New research with contributions from IFPRI’s Abhijeet Mishra, Timothy Sulser, and Keith Wiebe finds that reducing ozone pollution could lower the number of people at risk of hunger by 8.4 million by 2050—offsetting about 15% of the negative food security impacts associated with climate mitigation efforts aligned with a 1.5°C target. (Nature Food)

Nutrition gains from integrated agriculture and health interventions in Burkina Faso
New research by Lilia Bliznashka, Elodie Becquey, Marie Ruel, Deanna Olney, and colleagues found that adding nutrient supplements and water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions into gender-sensitive agriculture programs can significantly improve young children’s iron and vitamin A status, especially when support starts at 6 months of age and covers the whole complementary feeding period until 23 months of age. (Journal of Nutrition) (Press-release)

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World Health Day 2026: Trade wars reshape nutrition security opportunities Nutrition Insight interviewed Purnima Menon on how human health threats have risen amid climate impacts, environmental degradation, geopolitical tensions, and shifting demographics, and the impact of global shocks on global economies and nutrition. Menon discussed how IFPRI research has shown that food chains in war-affected areas can either make fragility worse or help people cope, and how policies and codes of conduct, such as on feeding infants and young children in emergency or conflict settings, can help prevent exploitation of crisis situations.

Can cash and therapy work in conflict settings? VoxDev published this article by Melissa Hidrobo, Harold Alderman, Daniel Gilligan, Jessica Leight, Heleene Tambet, and co-authors on a randomized evaluation of a cash and psychological intervention in Ethiopia that shows that the joint intervention is needed to improve both mental health and economic outcomes, but the effectiveness of the combined intervention is diminished by active conflict.

IFPRI–Dvara E‑Registry climate-smart agriculture lending innovation selected for global climate finance incubation IFPRI and Dvara E‑Registry’s innovative Insurance Backed Loans for Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) Adoption initiative has been selected by the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance as one of eight global climate finance solutions to enter its 2026 incubation cycle. 

Keeping seeds, feeding families: The quiet labour of women farmers Indian Express quoted Mamata Pradhan in the article looking at how women farmers are quietly safeguarding India’s food systems against climate uncertainty. “Women may carry the responsibility for food production and household nutrition, but they often lack the authority and resources needed to make key decisions,” Pradhan said. (Read more here).

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