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Nina Jovanovic is an Associate Research Fellow in the Development Strategy and Governance Division based in Cairo, Egypt. Her dissertation looked at the effects of technology adoption decisions made by smallholder farmers with incomplete information. She completed her PhD in Agricultural Economics at Purdue University in 2023.

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IFPRI-Sudan, Evidence and partnerships for resilient markets, rural livelihoods, and recovery in Sudan: Portfolio and partnership overview

2026Siddig, Khalid; Abay, Kibrom A.; Abushama, Hala; Rakhy, Tarig; Mohamed, Shima; Suliman, Gotada; Fagir, Isra; Jovanovic, Nina; Nigus, Halefom Yigzaw
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IFPRI-Sudan, Evidence and partnerships for resilient markets, rural livelihoods, and recovery in Sudan: Portfolio and partnership overview

Sudan’s protracted conflict has created a profound humanitarian, economic, and institutional emergency. Reliable evidence is difficult to generate precisely when it is most needed for targeting assistance, protecting livelihoods, restoring markets, and preparing for recovery. Since May 2022, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has worked through the Sudan Strategy Support Program (SSSP), combining conflict-adapted data collection, economic and policy analysis, impact evaluation, institutional assessment, capacity sharing and strengthening, and sustained policy engagement. IFPRI-Sudan now operates a broad portfolio spanning market intelligence, food security, agriculture, livelihoods, social protection, private-sector resilience, political economy, and economic recovery. The portfolio applies IFPRI’s 2026-2030 systems framework to Sudan’s fragile and conflict-affected context: clarifying conditions and outlooks; testing and scaling solutions; strengthening enabling institutions; and building durable tools, methods, and capacity across five interconnected themes. The program serves humanitarian and development decision-makers at the same time, producing evidence that is immediately usable while strengthening the analytical and institutional foundations for an inclusive, sustainable recovery. The IFPRI Sudan publications catalogue and interactive tools provide continuously updated, open-access entry points to this evidence. This overview presents established platforms and on-going work, recent research outputs, and separately labeled research ideas under development. Those ideas are adaptable to different partnerships and should not be interpreted as funded projects or commitments unless formal agreements are completed.

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2026

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Siddig, Khalid; Abay, Kibrom A.; Abushama, Hala; Rakhy, Tarig; Mohamed, Shima; Suliman, Gotada; Fagir, Isra; Jovanovic, Nina; Nigus, Halefom Yigzaw

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Siddig, Khalid; Abay, Kibrom A.; Abushama, Hala; Rakhy, Tarig; Mohamed, Shima; et al. 2026. IFPRI-Sudan, Evidence and partnerships for resilient markets, rural livelihoods, and recovery in Sudan: Portfolio and partnership overview. Sudan SSP Policy Note 13. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/184964

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Sudan

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Africa; Northern Africa; Capacity Building; Partnerships; Resilience; Markets; Rural Livelihoods; Economic Recovery

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English

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Open Access

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Implications of ice use on consumers’ willingness to pay for fresh fish: Findings from experimental auctions in Hadramawt fish markets

2026Jovanovic, Nina; Darwish, Maram; Bahurmiz, Osan; Ecker, Olivier
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Implications of ice use on consumers’ willingness to pay for fresh fish: Findings from experimental auctions in Hadramawt fish markets

An experimental auction conducted with 426 fresh fish consumers in Mukalla and Qusayir fish markets in Yemen reveals the following key findings: – There is a modest price premium of 77 YER per fish for fish that is sold on ice compared with fish not sold on ice, across the sample. – Compared with the sample average, the price premium in Mukalla is more than two times higher, with a difference of 162 YER per fish between fish sold on ice and not. – There is no price premium for fish on ice in Qusayir. – More than 60 percent of shoppers in both markets have positive perceptions about the use of ice to improve fish quality. – The use of ice is not the most important consideration when shoppers are making their purchasing decisions, rather, the price of fish is deemed most important. – The price premium appears to be too low to incentivize retailers to offer fish on ice to shoppers, considering high costs of ice. Fish is highly perishable and requires an uninterrupted cold chain to maintain both observable, organoleptic quality characteristics and food safety, which is not directly observable. Yet the use of ice by artisanal fishers and fish retailers in coastal markets for fresh fish is limited in Hadramawt Governorate–the center of Yemen’s artisanal fisheries in the Gulf of Aden (Belton et al., 2026). While increased use of ice by fishers and retailers could improve fish quality and safety in consumer markets, rigorous evidence is lacking on consumers’ perceptions about the use of ice and their willingness to purchase fish placed on ice.

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2026

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Jovanovic, Nina; Darwish, Maram; Bahurmiz, Osan; Ecker, Olivier

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Jovanovic, Nina; Darwish, Maram; Bahurmiz, Osan; and Ecker, Olivier. 2026. Implications of ice use on consumers’ willingness to pay for fresh fish: Findings from experimental auctions in Hadramawt fish markets. MENA Project Note 34. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/184951

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Yemen

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Middle East; Ice; Consumers; Willingness to Pay; Fish; Markets

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Agricultural recovery and resilience in Sudan: Findings from the THABAT Project baseline survey of farmers

2026Mohamed, Shima; Jovanovic, Nina; Abay, Kibrom A.; Siddig, Khalid; Simbeko, Guy; Sekabira, Haruna
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Agricultural recovery and resilience in Sudan: Findings from the THABAT Project baseline survey of farmers

This report presents the findings from a baseline survey of farmers conducted as part of IFPRI’s impact evaluation of a sub-component of the food security component of the THABAT project in Sudan. The report documents farmers’ pre-intervention conditions across agricultural production, input access, climate-smart practices, food security, market conditions, and institutional trust in the three states in which the project is being implemented—Kassala, Northern, and River Nile. Sudan’s ongoing conflict has severely disrupted agricultural systems, markets, and rural livelihoods. The Sudan Enhancing Community Resilience Project (THABAT) provides resilience-oriented agricultural support that is critical for sustaining food production, protecting livelihoods, and supporting local economic recovery (‘thabat’ in Arabic means ‘stability’ or ‘firmness’). The project is a USD 130 million initiative financed through the Sudan Transition and Recovery Support Trust Fund (STARS) Multi-Donor Trust Fund. This report focuses on Component 2 of the project, which aims to enhance food security through directly providing agricultural production inputs, both goods and services, to farmers. The baseline survey covered 1,308 beneficiary farmers from 115 farmer organizations across the three project states during the 2025/26 agricultural year. The main findings from the analysis of the survey data include: • Beneficiary farmers demonstrate relatively strong agricultural production potential despite operating in a fragile and conflict-affected environment. • Agricultural input support from the THABAT project reached most households, especially climate-adapted improved seeds for wheat, sorghum, and vegetables, and DAP and urea inorganic fertilizers. • However, adoption of climate-smart and adaptive agricultural practices, beyond the use of climate‑adapted improved seeds and fertilizers, generally remains low. • The food security indicators of beneficiary farmers are stronger than those seen in broader crisis-affected populations in Sudan. However, food insecurity levels vary substantially across the three project states. • Farmers continue to face major structural constraints to their economic activities that are related to inflation and currency fluctuations. They also face significant barriers in accessing markets, financial services, and technology, and are subject to substantial conflict-related risks.

Year published

2026

Authors

Mohamed, Shima; Jovanovic, Nina; Abay, Kibrom A.; Siddig, Khalid; Simbeko, Guy; Sekabira, Haruna

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Mohamed, Shima; Jovanovic, Nina; Abay, Kibrom A.; Siddig, Khalid; Simbeko, Guy; and Sekabira, Haruna. 2026. Agricultural recovery and resilience in Sudan: Findings from the THABAT Project baseline survey of farmers. Sudan SSP Working Paper 30. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/184618

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Sudan

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Africa; Northern Africa; Capacity Building; Agriculture; Resilience; Surveys; Farmers

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English

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Open Access

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Fisheries for Economic Recovery and Food Security in Yemen
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May 20, 2026, 8:00 – 10:00 am

Fisheries for Economic Recovery and Food Security in Yemen

Fisheries in Yemen have suffered from years of conflict, underinvestment, weak regulations, and high fuel prices. Fish production has fallen by an estimated 40 percent from its peak in 2004. Before the recent conflict, fisheries were Yemen’s second-largest export sector and an important contributor to national GDP and foreign revenue earnings. Given rich fish resources […]

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