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The double burden of malnutrition (DBM) – the coexistence of undernutrition and overweight/obesity – poses a critical global health challenge, particularly for children and adolescents. School meal programs offer an opportunity to address the DBM by providing nutritious meals that support growth, development, and lifelong health. However, limited school meal quality data hinders effective, nutritionally-tailored […]

Insights from the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development.

How can better measurement drive better food and nutrition policies? In this interactive webinar, participants will gain an overview of the Food Environment Toolbox and Urban Food Environments and Diets (UFED) tool, learning how these innovative resources can help fill critical data gaps, integrate food environment and dietary indicators, and support evidence-based decision-making. The session will highlight: Join […]

A pathway to improve community stewardship.

Fostering stewardship of a key resource.

The Saarc Agriculture Centre (SAC) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to strengthen collaboration in food and agriculture research, policy analysis, and capacity building across South Asia, The Daily Star reported.  The MoU was signed on September 25 in New York on the sidelines of the […]

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The recent resurgence of armed conflicts in Africa is increasing the need and urgency for investments in shock-responsive humanitarian and social assistance programs. Armed conflicts both increase the need for aid and greatly complicate delivery of humanitarian services to vulnerable populations. In addition, humanitarian organizations are facing an increasing funding gap because of dwindling donor […]

Promote a space for reflection and regional exchange aimed at identifying transformative and scalable experiences of agri-food public policies, with emphasis on those that generate public goods, articulate multiple actors and levels of government, incorporate innovative mechanisms and recognize the necessary enabling conditions for their implementation and sustainability. This dialogue prioritizes: October 8, 2025 Special […]

A new report outlines diverse applications.

Acknowledgements We are grateful to Marie Ruel, Loty Diop, Elodie Becquey, Jef Leroy, Gabriela Fretes, Kalyani Raghunathan and Shauna Downs for their thoughtful feedback on technical content. Special thanks to Jamed Falik for his invaluable assistance in conceptualizing the decision tree tool and with graphic layout. We also appreciate Indira Yerramareddy for her communications support, and Mulugeta Bayeh, Nilam Prasai and Yunchul Jung for their IT assistance.

A potential export shift from West to East.

In a recent DevPolicy article, Kristi Mahrt and Emily Schmidt (IFPRI) examine how raising the minimum wage could improve the affordability of nutritious foods in Papua New Guinea (PNG).  Using the Cost of a Healthy Diet (CoHD) indicator, they show that the price of a basic healthy diet in urban PNG increased from K7.70 in […]

The MoU was signed today by Secretary General of SAARC and Director General of IFPRI at the margins of the UN General Assembly this week in New York.

IFPRI’s Fragility to Stability Policy Seminar Series The “Fragility to Stability” IFPRI Policy Seminar Series is an initiative undertaken by the IFPRI-led Area of Work (AoW) on Fragile and Conflict-affected (FCA) Food Systems, under the broader CGIAR Food Frontiers and Security Science Program. This series responds to the urgent need for evidence-based, collaborative strategies to […]

Can school meals serve both children and the planet? This webinar will explore how school meal programs intersect with regenerative agriculture, unpacking the environmental, economic, and social tradeoffs of scaling sustainable feeding models. Drawing on global initiatives, including Brazil’s national school feeding program, this session will highlight existing evidence and persistent gaps on the sustainability […]

IFPRI Research Fellow Ben Belton discusses what appears to drive drone use in agriculture and how they might make farming more productive and sustainable.