IFPRI Projects

CHANGE aims to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate an Enhanced-Homestead Food Production (E-HFP) model that improves the nutritional status of infants and young children and their mothers.

Small-scale Producers (SSPs) across the developing world frequently lack access to reliable information and extension crucial for sustainable increases in farm productivity and income. CropIn’s SmartFarm is a digital platform that offers customized, granular, data-driven inputs to SSPs with the aim of filling this critical need for credible and actionable […]

Improving agricultural extension and advisory services through action, evidence and advocacy.

The Developing Smart Innovations through Research in Agriculture (DeSIRA) initiative is a five-year agricultural research project funded by the EU. Its main objective is to conduct research and contribute to the climate-relevant, productive, and sustainable improvement of agriculture and food systems in Malawi. The relevance of the promoted agricultural farming […]

This project seeks to understand the potential for digital financial services (DFS) to help improve financial access among the agricultural midstream—which includes traders, transporters, processors, wholesalers, and other related businesses

Developed using advanced machine learning, simulation, and data mining techniques, these country briefs provide detailed risk assessments of key economic indicators. Produced by IFPRI, the analysis leverages economywide models to offer insights into countries’ vulnerabilities and economic uncertainties. This initial research addresses two critical questions: What is the country’s current […]

Irrigation, mechanization or fertilizer?—tradeoffs and food security implications What is the challenge? Agricultural intensification through the use of high-yielding crop varieties, fertilizers, irrigation, and other agricultural chemicals (f. ex. pesticides) has been proposed as key to achieving global food security; but implementation of such a strategy will likely be constrained by […]

The project “Ensuring Inclusiveness, Sustainability, and Efficiency of Food System Transformation in the ASEAN and BIMSTEC Countries (ATMI-II)”, is being led by IFPRI as the implementing agency with financial support from International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). It seeks to strengthen institutional capacities in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, the Philippines, […]

Provides evidence-based policy recommendations for optimal use of the country’s energy resources to improve electricity access, promote energy security and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions to contribute to mitigating climate change.

The Ethiopia NIPN Technical Advisory Project (ENTAP) is embedded in the Compact 2025 initiative for ending hunger and undernutrition by 2025. The objective of ENTAP is to strengthen national capacity to establish a National Information Platform for Nutrition in Ethiopia (NIPN-Ethiopia), which is implemented by the Ethiopian Public Health Institute […]