Resilience

Economic, climate, and political shocks—including food price hikes and financial crises, environmental and natural disasters, armed and political conflicts, and disease outbreaks—can be devastating for poor and vulnerable people who have limited resources and options. Such shocks can intensify the risk of food and nutrition insecurity, throw people into poverty, prevent people from moving out of poverty, and spur migration.

Building resilience means helping individuals, households, communities, and countries prepare for, mitigate, cope with, and recover from shocks—so that they can not only bounce back but even become better off.  IFPRI's resilience research examines the impact of different shocks and explores possible interventions to enhance human capital, policies for responding to and recovering from crises, and ways of creating resilient food, economic, and social systems.

IFPRI’s research on this topic is closely aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG1, SDG2, SDG9, and SDG11.