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Johan Swinnen and Purnima Menon were interviewed for this new episode of the VoxDevTalks podcast, where they discuss IFPRI’s landmark 2025 Global Food Policy Report, which reviews 50 years of progress and setbacks in global food systems. 

This webinar will explore the latest global evidence on how school feeding programs drive broad-based returns: boosting education, enhancing health outcomes, supporting local agriculture, and strengthening national development. The session will explore new findings from a randomized control trial (RCT), evaluating the longer-term economic impacts of Ghana’s national school feeding program, and ways this methodology […]

School meals have re-emerged as a global priority for improving child health, education, and well-being, with these meals now reaching at least 407 million children globally. These programs can also play an important role in food systems transformation by ensuring access to healthy diets, supporting equitable livelihoods, and contributing to environmental sustainability. With rising food […]

What does it mean to design ethical AI for agricultural research and development—and how can researchers and practitioners begin to put principles into practice? Following our previous webinar on A Problem-Oriented Approach to AI Ethics in Food Systems, this event marks the launch of the Ethical AI Methods Toolkit: a practical resource developed to support […]

Exploring how emerging tools can help farmers.

Fertilizers—both mineral and organic—are indispensable inputs in modern agriculture. Yet, recent years have seen unprecedented volatility in fertilizer prices, trade flows, and policy responses, reshaping the landscape for producers, traders, and farmers alike. This event will explore the evolving dynamics of the global fertilizer market and its critical role in food security and agricultural sustainability. […]

Agriculture plays a central role in South Asia, providing livelihoods for millions while shaping trade and food systems across the region. Countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka are major producers of rice, wheat, tea, and spices, with agricultural exports fueling economies and global supply chains. Despite these strengths, the sector faces significant challenges, […]

A form of fertilizer offers advantages to farmers and the environment.

IFPRI in collaboration with Uganda’s National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO), an autonomous public research agency under the auspices of the Ministry of Agricture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, has collected soil health data at plot level together with intra-household socioeconomic data and laboratory analyses of soil samples since 2003. The most recent data collection took place […]

Migration today reflects a complex interplay of demographic pressures, conflict, poverty, climate change, and economic shocks. Worldwide, one in every seven people is a migrant—that is, someone who changes his or her country of usual residence, irrespective of the reason for migration—or a refugee forced to leave his or her home, often without warning, for […]

Reaching those at risk.

Key avenues for innovation.

Reassessing a major target of public investment.

IFPRI researchers Kato Edward and Claudia Ringler presented findings from a performance evaluation of a matching grant subsidy program supporting smallholder farmers in acquiring micro-scale irrigation equipment, mostly solar-powered irrigation systems, in 66 of the 146 districts in Uganda. The micro irrigation program funded by the World Bank and implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture, […]

A recent media feature by BBC News Polska on global food price trends cites IFPRI’s Rob Vos, who warns “The era of cheap food is over.”

A landscape of starvation and ruined livelihoods.

IFPRI 2024 Annual Report // Food Crisis Monitor: Gaza and Sudan // Remembering David Nabarro and Uma Lele // New book on the Future of Food Systems // and more

IFPRI mourns the passing of esteemed international agricultural economist and rural development expert Uma Lele.