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The importance of understanding the political economy incentives that drive large-scale conflict.

International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), Center for Effective Global Action, Center for Open Science, IDinsight, International Food Policy Research Institute and Policy Innovation Research Center are joining forces to launch the Sustainable Evidence Infrastructure Commitment to strengthen how evidence is produced, reported, shared and synthesized.  

Introducing Longa, an AI-powered speech recognition tool designed to strengthen agricultural communication and inclusivity across sub-Saharan Africa.

Digital cash transfers can be delivered even in active conflict settings like Sudan and can significantly protect vulnerable households from worsening food insecurity, though their impacts vary by context and household characteristics.

A groundbreaking approach to understanding how developing economies are affected by multiple, simultaneous shocks.

Joint research priorities focus on scaling innovations in agronomy, mechanization, crop breeding, and nutrition, alongside improved methods in impact evaluation, market, and policy analysis.

Katrina Kosec and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo examine whether social transfer programs—beyond their economic benefits—also help build states and societies that sustain development.

Daily FT (Sri Lanka) interviewed Derek Headey and Joanna van Asselt for an article about the Building Resilience, Inclusive Growth and Holistic Transformation (BRIGHT) Integrated Household Survey.

Comments from IFPRI’s Avinash Kishore on how India’s new role as the world’s largest exporter of rice impacts scarce groundwater supplies. 

Ada Derana (YouTube, Sri Lanka) featured IFPRI work in this news report on the national Building Resilient Inclusive Growth and Holistic Transformation (BRIGHT) survery in Sri Lanka.