When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the conflict quickly sparked fears of a global food crisis. Food prices were already high in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and many countries were facing serious food insecurity.

Now is the time to rethink how we address food crises. Better prediction, preparation, and resilience building can make future crises less common and less devastating, and improved responses can contribute to greater food security, better nutrition, and sustainable livelihoods

As the 2022 Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows, the global hunger situation is undeniably grim.

Climate change threatens our food systems and the multiple development goals linked to sustainable food system transformation. Action is urgently needed, both to increase adaptation and resilience and to achieve major emissions reductions

Two years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health, economic, and social disruptions caused by this global crisis continue to evolve.

The context of international food trade has changed considerably since the last Ministerial Conference (MC11) in 2017. Significant progress has not been achieved in many important issues that are still pending on the organization’s agenda. 

Examing emerging data on impact of COVID-19 on African economies and food systems, reviewing the responses to the pandemic, and advances the discussion on methodologies to measure the impacts of and resilience to shocks.

Despite declining arable agricultural land, Bangladesh has made substantial progress in boosting domestic food production, improving access to food by increasing household income, and enhancing nutritional outcomes

Malawi's ag sector needs to be less subsistence-focused, and more market-centered,  concentrated, & specialized to reliably feed its people. 

The coronavirus pandemic has upended local, national, and global food systems, and put the Sustainable Development Goals further out of reach. But lessons from the world’s response can help address future shocks and contribute to change.

Explores key emerging issues facing developing-country agriculture today, from rapid urbanization to rural transformation to climate change

Ethiopia’s agrifood system in the context of a rapidly changing economy. Poverty reduction depends on growth in the agriculture sector & sustained investment in the agrifood system.
 

The coronavirus pandemic has sparked not only a health crisis but also an economic crisis, which together pose a serious threat to food security, particularly in poorer countries.

Building more inclusive food systems can bring a wide range of economic and development benefits to all people, especially the poor and disadvantaged.

IFPRI authors Ousmane Badiane and Katrin Glatzel, & colleagues present key challenges for Africa's smallholder farmers and the concepts & practices of Sustainable Intensification in a Cornell University Press book.

This book is the first comprehensive effort to bring together Water, Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) in a way that goes beyond the traditional focus on irrigated agriculture.

IFPRI’s flagship report reviews the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2018, and considers challenges and opportunities for 2019.