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Virtual Event: May 11, 2023 – 5:00 AM to 8:45 AM EDT. Please join the Nigeria presentation of the Report and the launch of the FCM Initiative on May 11 in Abuja, Nigeria, in person or virtually.

TEAA’s research activities are designed to provide analytical support to local and international partners, build related communities of practice, and share timely policy-relevant research results. The research agenda covers five major areas; 1) Agricultural Production and Productivity; 2) Markets, Value Chains and Trade; 3) Assessing Policy and Investment Priorities; 4) Livelihoods and Nutrition; 5) Increasing Resilience of Farming Systems Under Growing Climate Challenges

Strategies and policies to build food system resilience.

Promoting a sustainable and inclusive food, agriculture, and trade transformation.

Strong evidence of the relationship between small-scale irrigation, food security, diet quality, and nutrition.

Event: May 7, 2023 – 9:00 AM- 1:00 PM EEST. This launch event will address venues through which impact evaluation informs policymaking with a focus on social protection programs in Egypt, bringing officials, researchers, implementers, and NGOs together to share major findings and options for the future.

A key tool in the battle for better nutrition and health.

Earth Day; Measuring Women’s Empowerment; War in Ukraine Irrigation in Nepal; & more

“Around the world, food prices are persistently, painfully high,” writes the Associated Press News. “The UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s food price index is lower than when Russian troops entered Ukraine. But somehow, the exorbitant food prices that people can’t help but pay are still rising.”  Joseph Glauber, a senior research fellow at the International […]

More war-related agricultural market disruptions.

Hybrid Event: May 25, 2023 – 9:30 AM- 11:00 AM EDT. This trade policy seminar will provide a review and future-oriented discussion on domestic support, featuring Lars Brink and David Orden, authors of the recently published book Agricultural Domestic Support under the WTO: Experience and Prospects.

Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) announces that the Ministry of Irrigation and Lowlands (represented by Ethiopia’s Ambassador to the USA, Seleshi Bekele) and Johan Swinnen, the director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly carry out research in irrigation development, capacity building, and knowledge transfer.   […]

Advantages of Community-Based Conservation.

In an op-ed for the Daily Check, Dan Neff, a former undersecretary of the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Trade and Industry, writes, “For us to achieve agriculture prosperity, emphasis must be given to high-value crops (HVCs).”  From a global perspective, the International Food Policy Research Institute cited a study by Aruja et […]

“The breadbasket of Europe, Ukraine, has for years exported vast quantities of grain through the Black Sea. But after Russia’s invasion disrupted those routes, the EU stepped in, removing tariffs and establishing solidarity lanes, or alternative land routes that would allow Ukrainian cereals to reach other countries by passing through Eastern Europe.” The article adds, […]

The Business Post (Bangladesh) published a story that cited IFPRI research. An IFPRI report states that 56 percent of Bangladesh’s fish comes from ponds. Fish farming in ponds has increased by almost six times in the last three decades.   The current government has been providing incentives in various ways to encourage fish farming including reducing […]