Publications

Journal Article
Harness agrifood value chains to help farmers be climate smart: Incentives and structures exist to improve farming practices

Journal Article
Emerging outsource agricultural services enable farmer adaptation in agrifood value chains: A product cycle perspective

Journal Article
Famine in Gaza, questions for research and preventive action
Blogs

Famine in Gaza
A new analysis shows a deteriorating situation.

The path forward on global food system transformation
Comprehensive change can yield broad benefits, a new report shows.

We must build food system resilience before the next crisis
Useful approaches to heading off shocks.
Events

2025 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting
IFPRI is participating in the 2025 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting on July 27– July 29, 2025. The Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) is a not-for-profit association serving the professional interests of members working in agricultural and broadly related fields of applied economics. AAEA members are primarily employed by academic departments […]

4th International Conference on Financing for Development
IFPRI is pleased to participate in the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4). This conference provides a unique opportunity to reform financing at all levels, including to support reform of the international financial architecture and addressing financing challenges preventing the urgently needed investment push for the SDGs. FFD4 Conference will be held in […]

2025 Global Food Policy Report | Food Policy: Lessons and Priorities for a Changing World
Also streaming on Over the last 50 years, the world’s food systems have evolved tremendously amid major economic, environmental, and social changes. Throughout this period, policy research has played a critical role in providing evidence and analysis to inform decision-making that supports agricultural growth, better livelihoods, and improved food security, nutrition, and well-being for all. […]
News
Collective efforts needed to reform food systems (New Age)
New Age (Bangladesh) quoted IFPRI Director General Johan Swinnen in this article on the Annual BIDS Conference on Development (ABCD) 2024, organized by the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) in Dhaka. According to Swinnen, reforming food systems is feasible, but highly complex due to the multitude of stakeholders involved. He also emphasized the necessity […]
New paper calls for harnessing agrifood value chains to help farmers be climate-smart
The global food system is uniquely vulnerable to climate impacts, making adaptation of paramount importance.
Steven Were Omamo joins IFPRI as the new Director of the Development Strategies and Governance Unit
IFPRI is pleased to announce that Steven Were Omamo joins IFPRI as the new Director of the DSG Unit.
Research
Awards
- 2021 AAEA Quality of Communication Award for his book with A4NH Director John McDermott, COVID-19 and global food security.
- 2018-2021 IAAE Honorary Life Members Award
- 2019 Book Award from the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) for his book “The Political Economy of Agricultural and Food Policies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).”
- Honorary Doctorate, University of Göttingen, 2017
- Outstanding Article in Applied Economic Policy and Perspectives 2015 (Best AEPP paper in 2015 awarded by AAEA)
- President, International Association of Agricultural Economists, 2012–2015
- Quality of Policy Communication Award of the European Association of Agricultural Economics, 2014 (with Kym Anderson and Gordon Rausser for paper “Political Economy of Public Policies: Insights from Distortions to Agricultural and Food Markets”, in Journal of Economic Literature)
- Methusalem Research Award 2015–2023 (for the KU Leuven’s most distinguished researchers)
- President-elect, International Association of Agricultural Economists, 2009–2012
- Honorary Doctorate, University of Nitra, 2012
- Fellow of the American Association of Agricultural and Applied Economists, 2012
- President, Beeronomics Society, 2011
- Fellow of the European Association of Agricultural Economists, 2009
- Methusalem Research Award 2008–2015 (for the KU Leuven’s most distinguished researchers)
- Francqui Chair, University of Gent, 2009, KU Leuven Centre of Excellence Award 2005
- Quality of Research Discovery Award of the American Agricultural Economics Association, 2004 (with Scott Rozelle for outstanding paper “Success and Failure of Reforms: Insights from the Transition of Agriculture” in Journal of Economic Literature)
- International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium PhD Dissertation Award 1993 (for PhD thesis “Essays on the Political Economy of Agricultural Policies”)
- G.F. Warren Award (for outstanding publication “A Positive Theory of Agricultural Protection”), Department of Agricultural Economics, Cornell University 1992
- Michele Sicca Fellowship of the Cornell Western Societies Program 1990
- Joyce Graduate Fellowship of the (US) National Agricultural Biotechnology Council 1989
- Belgian American Educational Foundation Honorary Fellowship 1988
- Dissertation Award of the Alumni Association of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, KU Leuven, 1985 (for MSc Dissertation)