Over the last decade, Ethiopia has had one of the fastest growing economies in the world with annual growth rates averaging approximately 9.2% and 5.3% for the overall economy and the agricultural sector, respectively.
The United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), held in September of 2021, aimed to move food systems transformation to the top of the global policy agenda.
Globalization and changing climates are aggravating the occurrence and impacts of transboundary pests, and driving the emergence of new threats.
IFPRI’s 2021 Annual Report presents highlights from our research work around the world.
As development and humanitarian agencies increasingly advance the objective of ‘building resilience’, three resilience measurement methods have come into especially widespread use: the Resilience Indicators for Measurement and Analysis approach de
In household surveys, husbands and wives who are asked the same set of survey questions often provide different responses.
This literature review uses a gender analysis framework proposed by Johnson et al. (2018) to explore the extent to which agricultural insurance reaches, benefits and empowers women and men.
This paper analyzes the potential linkages between innovations in agricultural credit and women’s empowerment. We provide survey evidence of lower baseline demand for agricultural credit among women than men.
Our paper seeks to identify factors that inhibit and promote women’s success in seed businesses, through three case studies of women’s and men’s entrepreneurship across varying seed-related value chains and country contexts in Africa south of the
Too often, smallholder farmers suffer severe financial consequences from extreme weather events, pests, and disease; and climate change will increase the frequency at which natural hazards occur.
This paper reviews and synthesizes IFPRI’s research program on agricultural insurance since 2009, a period that encompasses all the activities for which financial support from PIM was obtained during 2012-2020.
Effective policies and programs aiming to reduce poverty require a clear understanding of how people earn their livelihoods.
Increasing women's empowerment is a key objective of many development programs, both as a principal goal and as a path to economic development.
This paper provides a quantitative impact assessment of the community-based integrated natural resources management project (CBINReMP) in the Lake Tana region in Ethiopia during 2011-2019.
Background
The economic crisis and food and health system disruptions related to the COVID-19 pandemic threaten to exacerbate undernutrition in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
At the start of CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) Phase 2 in 2017, and later during the priority-setting round in 2019, each of the PIM research areas (‘flagships’) formulated key research questions they aimed to
The food system, and those who depend on it, have been strongly but unevenly affected by COVID‐19.