That climate variability and change can potentially force multiple simultaneous breadbasket crop yield shocks has been established.

This Analysis presents a recently developed food system indicator framework and holistic monitoring architecture to track food system transformation towards global development, health and sustainability goals.

Transforming food systems is essential to bring about a healthier, equitable, sustainable, and resilient future, including achieving global development and sustainability goals.

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This paper conducts a benefit–cost analysis of expanding agricultural research and development (R&D) in the Global South.

Nitrogen (N) is an important nutrient for crop growth. However, the overuse of N fertilizers has led to a series of devastating global environmental issues.

The geographic distribution of natural ecosystems is afected by both climate and cropland.

IFPRI’s 2022 Annual Report presents highlights from our research work in low- and middle-income countries and on global challenges.

Introduction: This article contributes to a better understanding of the context in which agricultural R&D investment takes place in low- and middle-income countries, and how innovation capacity, the development of the food system, and the size

Sustainable food production needs to increase if it is to meet the rising and evolving food demands caused by growing populations, increasing incomes and urbanization. However, it faces numerous challenges.

Research is essential for improvement of agricultural productivity, resource use and resilience, and for food systems transformation more broadly.

Migration is a recurrent, complex, and multidimensional phenomenon driven by a broad set of factors.

The Russia-Ukraine war's impact on food, fuel, and fertilizer prices is a major concern for global poverty and food insecurity.

This paper conducts a benefit-cost analysis of expanding agricultural research and development in the Global South.

The number of people living in rural areas of low and middle-income countries is projected to increase in the coming decades. It is in the rural areas of these countries where a large majority of the world’s extreme poor reside.

Economic statistics are frequently produced at an administrative level such as the sub-national division.