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IFPRI at the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development
IFPRI is pleased to participate in the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4).This conference offers a unique opportunity to advance financing reform at all levels—including efforts to reshape the international financial architecture and overcome financing challenges that hinder the urgent investment push needed to achieve the SDGs. The FFD4 Conference will be held in FIBES Sevilla Exhibition and Conference Centre from June 30 to July 3, 2025.
IFPRI’s Johan Swinnen, James Thurlow, Ruth Hill, and Clemens Breisinger will participate in the Side Event Prioritizing Financing for Food System Transformation: Options and Trade-offs on July 1, 2025 | 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm (Europe/Madrid). Learn more.
Our new blog series, “Financing Food Systems Transformation,” will explore the scale of financing needed to make food systems healthier, more equitable, and sustainable.
Read the first blog by Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla, Geeta Sethi, and Johan Swinnen: Financing healthy, equitable, and sustainable food systems: Laying out options for action
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2025 marks the 50th anniversary of IFPRI. As part of our ongoing virtual celebration, we continue sharing select IFPRI innovations that supported evolving food systems. Check out these latest features about the Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI), the Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey (BIHS), the Rural Investment and Policy Analysis (RIAPA) data and monitoring system, and the Developing Local Extension Capacity (DLEC) project on LinkedIn and other platforms!
We are also showcasing the diversity of talent, geographies, and research interests across the Institute in Faces of IFPRI—a series of video interviews with our colleagues around the world. We speak with both research and non-research staff, women and men, some who have worked with IFPRI for years and some who have joined recently. Watch the latest episode featuring Tigist Gedeb.
Visit IFPRI at 50 page on our website and follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky, YouTube, or X for most current updates.
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This new special issue of the journal Food Policy, edited by Kibrom Abay, Jordan Chamberlin, Pauline Chivenge, and David J. Spielman, brings together a collection of research articles examining how global crises have affected fertilizer markets, soil health, and agricultural productivity, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
These themes took center stage at an IFPRI policy seminar held on June 11, 2025, to discuss the issue’s findings. Read our press release here.
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Achieving transformational sustainable land intensification: Integrated general equilibrium and portfolio analysis for Senegal: This study by Angga Pradesha, Khalid Siddig, Karl Pauw, and James Thurlow explores how farmers’ land-use decisions can be guided by the relative risks and returns of different crops—much like managing a financial portfolio. By shifting cropland toward high-value crops such as fruits and vegetables, Senegal could reduce the need for new land conversion by up to 68% by 2030, while improving GDP, lowering poverty, enhancing diets, and minimizing environmental impacts. (Read article in the Journal of Cleaner Production) (Read Press Release)
A comparison of the effects of local and EAT-Lancet dietary recommendations on selected economic and environmental outcomes in India: Vartika Singh, Abhijeet Mishra, and co-authors compared two types of healthy diets—the globally recommended EAT-Lancet diets and Indian government’s National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) local diets—by examining their impacts on agricultural production, agricultural commodity prices, food expenditures, trade impacts, greenhouse gas emissions, and water withdrawals (Read article in Food Policy)
Prospects for cereal self-sufficiency in sub-Saharan Africa: A new study co-authored by Timothy Sulser shows that it is feasible for sub-Saharan Africa to become self-sufficient in grains such as maize, wheat, and millet by 2050—without further expanding agricultural land. Researchers analyzed the region’s potential to meet projected demand—expected to double by 2050 due to population growth and dietary shifts—through yield improvements in five staple grains: maize, wheat, millet, rice, and sorghum. (Read article in PNAS) (Read News Release)
What are the economic and poverty implications for Sudan if the conflict continues through 2025? Mosab Ahmed, Mariam Raouf, and Khalid Siddig found 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. (Read article in the Journal of Development Studies) (Read Press Release)
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Sudan has now entered its third year of armed conflict, resulting in economic collapse and a deepening humanitarian crisis. As of April 2025, over 8.6 million people have been internally displaced, and over 3 million have fled to neighboring countries. Famine has been confirmed in 10 areas and internally displaced person (IDP) camps, with 17 others at risk. GDP contracted by 20% in 2023 and 15% in 2024 alongside soaring inflation and widespread food insecurity. The conflict is now among the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
Sudan Conflict Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, organized by IFPRI’s Sudan Strategy Support Program and partners in April, showcased recent research on the conflict’s impact, policy dialogue, and learning from comparable conflict experiences.
Learn more in this blog by Tarig Alhaj Rakhy, Shima Mohamed, Khalid Siddig, Hala Abushama, Oliver Kiptoo Kirui, and Paul Dorosh.
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Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day: Lessons from research on the food environment in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Viet Nam
By Alan de Brauw
Keys to improving diets and nutrition.
DNA testing reveals hidden benefits of improved crop varieties for Ethiopian farmers
By Nina Jovanovic and Jacob Ricker-Gilbert
Clearing up confusion over seeds.
UN Desertification and Drought Day 2025: Linking soil health, gender equity, and sustainable land management
By Claudia Ringler, Edward Kato, and Geoffrey Kiguli
Lessons from Uganda.
Invest in climate adaptation—before disaster strikes
By Kalle Hirvonen and Olli-Pekka Kuusela
Approaches to build resilience amid global aid cuts.
The gendered response to farmer-herder violent conflict in Nigeria
By Jeffrey Bloem, Amy Damon, David C. Francis, and Harrison Mitchell
A study shows how smallholder households deal with disruptions.
The role of explainability in AI for agriculture: Making digital systems easier to understand for farmers
By Mengisti Berihu Girmay
Centering user needs in precision livestock monitoring.
Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos
More than 2 million face acute food insecurity.
2025 Global Report on Food Crises: Rising food insecurity, waning humanitarian assistance
By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos
The world faces a stark inflection point.
A key decade of food system change and looking forward: Per Pinstrup-Andersen on his time as IFPRI Director General
Insights from a World Food Prize laureate.
Agrifood science in transition: Building a sustainable architecture in the face of declining development aid
By Steven Were Omamo and David Spielman
Navigating a challenging new environment.
Beyond the hype: Centering humans in CGIAR’s genAI research
By Eliot Jones-Garcia
Realizing the potential and minimizing the risks of a promising new technology.
Integrating gender and nutrition into climate policy: Insights from the GCAN Initiative in Nigeria
By Musa Tukur Yakasai, Bello Yakasai, Yohanna Moses, Bedru Balana, Elizabeth Basauri Bryan, Augustine Iraoya, and Claudia Ringler
Grounding action in research and collaboration.
Applying the Women’s Empowerment Metric in National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) to build gender equity
By Emily Myers, Jessica Heckert, Hazel Malapit, Agnes Quisumbing, Flor Paz, Chiara Brunelli, and Chiara Gnetti
A tool to collect key data sometimes missing from household surveys.
New U.S. tariff policies: What’s at stake for sub-Saharan Africa?
By Valeria Piñeiro, Juan Pablo Gianatiempo, Fousseini Traoré, and Joseph Glauber
Risks and possible benefits of a chaotic global trade environment.
The world is nowhere near the goal of zero hunger by 2030 amid uncertain global development financing. What now?
By James Allen IV
Representatives of major organizations grapple with our current predicament.
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IFPRI’s modeling systems are valuable assets for informed decision making about investments and policies that impact food systems activities and outcomes.
Three models are the cornerstones of IFPRI’s Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit’s work: The International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT) model, the Rural Investment and Policy Analysis (RIAPA) model, and the Spatial Production Allocation Model (SPAM) model.
Alix Underwood, Eleanor Jones, Karl Pauw, Keith Wiebe, and Liangzhi You explore the impacts of these three models in the latest interactive story of our Making a Difference series.
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Nutrition issues to watch at the 78th World Health Assembly Devex quoted Purnima Menon in this article on 78th World Health Assembly, where the World Health Organization’s highest decision-making body considered resolutions that would extend a plan for maternal and child nutrition, and restrict digital marketing of breast milk substitutes. While nutrition isn’t a specific agenda item, it cuts across all themes at the WHA, Menon said. “How to get nutrition and healthy diets to be central to some of the discussions and resolutions is going to remain a long-range, urgent advocacy agenda.”
Fix social protection flaws instead of expanding outlay The Daily Star featured Akhter U Ahmed in this recent article. In an interview, Ahmed said that while social protection spending has expanded significantly in recent years, the effectiveness of that spending remains in question. “Reallocation is critical,” he said. “We must increase the benefit size, improve targeting, scale up successful programmes and phase out inefficient ones.”
As famine data dries up, can AI step in? Devex quoted Yanyan Liu in this article on how researchers are developing AI tools to predict famine more accurately and affordably — especially in conflict zones and data-scarce areas. IFPRI’s model could assist humanitarians, policymakers, and development agencies once it is peer-reviewed and published, which could happen later this year. “We are not trying to replace IPC or FEWS NET,” said Yanyan Liu, “but we can say that our model, this method, is complementary.” (This was also shared in Devex Newswire)
The “Oscar” of food prizes goes to a Brazilian who harnessed the power of bacteria NPR’s “Goats and Soda” interviewed Ryan Nehring for this article on 2025 World Food Prize laureate Mariangela Hungria, a microbiologist with the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA). “EMBRAPA is this heroic institution that conquered the wild lands of the interior, made them productive, part of [Brazil’s] nation-building effort,” Nehring said.
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 June 30 to July 3, 2025, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (Europe/Madrid)
4th International Conference on Financing for Development
Side Event: Prioritizing Financing for Food System Transformation: Options and Trade-offs
July 1, 2025 | 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm (Europe/Madrid)
July 2, 2025, 9:30 – 11:00 am (US/Eastern)
Worsening Food Insecurity, Waning Response Capacity: Options for a Better Way Forward
Co-organized by IFPRI, the Food Security Information Network (FSIN) and the CGIAR Science Program on Food Frontiers and Security | Virtual Policy Seminar | Part of the Fragility to Stability Seminar Series
July 10, 2025, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm (US/Eastern)
Organizational Journeys in Human-Centered AI: Lessons from Practice in the Development Sector
Webinar Series – AI for Food Systems Research
July 15, 2025, 8:00 – 10:00am (US/Eastern) 3:00 – 5:00 pm (Africa/Nairobi)
The Future of Youth Jobs in Agrifood Systems in Africa
Hosted by IFPRI, the CGIAR Policy Innovations Program, the CGIAR Gender Equality and Inclusion Accelerator, and the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) | Virtual Policy Seminar
July 24, 2025, 7:30 am – 9:30 pm (Asia/Tokyo)
Side Event: Scaling Agricultural Extension in Africa amid Emerging Technologies and Global Aid Shifts | July 24, 2025 | 6:30am – 8:30am (US/Eastern) / 19:30 – 21:30 (Asia/Tokyo)
July 27 to 29, 2025, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (Africa/Addis Ababa)
UN Food Systems Summit +4 Stocktake (UNFSS+4)
Featured Event: The Implementation of the CAADP Strategy and Action Plan: Interactive Dialogue between African Youth Agri-Food Entrepreneurs and African Leaders | July 29, 2025 | 13:30 – 14:30 (Africa/Addis Ababa)
July 27 to 29, 2025, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (US/Eastern)
2025 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting
Organized Symposium | 50 Years of IFPRI: Lessons and Priorities for Food Policy in a Changing World
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From Relief to Resilience in Somalia: Harnessing Research to Inform Social Protection Policy and Practice
June 16, 2025
Webinar
10th annual Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (ANH) Academy Week
June 16 to 26, 2025
Hybrid Event
China Agricultural Sector Development Report 2025 and IFPRI 2025 Global Food Policy Report Launch
June 16, 2025
Co-organized by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) and IFPRI
Fertilizer, Soil Health, and Economic Shocks: Policy Lessons Learned from Recent Events
June 11, 2025
Organized by IFPRI, Food Policy, and the CGIAR Science Program on Policy Innovations
Generative AI for Food Systems: A Skills Workshop for Researchers
June 5, 2025
Webinar Series – AI for Food Systems Research
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