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Impacts on education and beyond.

Globally, more than 2 billion people—one in three—experience vitamin and mineral deficiencies. This “hidden hunger” can lead to premature and preventable death, developmental delays, visual impairment, and lower work performance. More broadly, it can contribute to slower economic growth and intergenerational poverty. Hidden hunger is especially concerning in the Global South, with women, adolescent girls, […]

The Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition, in collaboration with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), invites you to a policy seminar exploring the evolving evidence on school meal programmes and their costs. As one of the world’s largest social protection interventions, reaching over 460 million children globally, school meals play a critical […]

A shock that may trigger humanitarian disaster.

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Food Security Forum, brings together U.S. and global policymakers, technology developers, financers, researchers, and implementing partners working at the forefront of AI for food security. Join CSIS, and the member organizations of the AI Collaborative: Food Security, for cross-cutting discussions that explore the promises and risks of AI-enabled technologies for food […]

This year’s conference features academic research on land governance, land markets, and institutions, and their impact on economic growth and poverty reduction, structural transformation and resilience, private investment, and job creation.  The conference also includes sessions on property taxation and urban development, equity and rights, land-related conflict and land policy’s links to climate resilience. A […]

Systematic risk profiling reveals wide differences in country vulnerabilities.

Group exercises generate local solutions.

The article features recent IFPRI research on combining agriculture programs with micronutrient supplementation, water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), and behavior change interventions.

IFPRI’s role supporting stewardship for a key resource.

A challenging dynamic for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Fertilizer markets have entered a phase of heightened uncertainty, where geopolitical risks intersect with highly concentrated production, energy dependence, and fragile logistics. These risks are no longer hypothetical. The Strait of Hormuz represents a critical chokepoint for fertilizer trade, with around 35 percent of global urea flows, over one quarter of ammonia trade, just above […]

Devex quoted Johan Swinnen, IFPRI Director General, in the April 15 edition of Devex Dish: “The war represents the third major shock for the global food system in just six years, following the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war. These shocks — and their frequency — highlight how important it is for countries to diversify where they […]

The book is being launched today in Cairo on the opening day of the conference “Three Years of Conflict: What the Evidence Tells Us and What Recovery Requires.”

Avinash Kishore, IFPRI senior research fellow in New Delhi, was interviewed for the Al Jazeera’s “Inside Story” program on the Iran war risks to global food security.

Women’s property rights and tenure security are recognized as critical for development policy and practice. Yet there is no consensus on how to conceptualize or measure these concepts.  In this paper, we explore the relationships among perceived tenure security (as reported by survey respondents), documentation, and the bundle of rights that are often used to […]

CGIAR colleagues Lulseged Tamene, Jonathan Mockshell, and Francisco Hidalgo together with IFPRI’s Ryan Nehring and Wei Zhang call for a shift towards a holistic approach to environmental, social and economic sustainability.

Foreign Policy quotes IFPRI’s Joseph Glauber who notes that energy inputs are built into food costs at nearly every step, from production and processing through transportation and retail.

Insights from IFPRI’s Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems.