Food security, as defined by the United Nations’ Committee on World Food Security, means that all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their food preferences and dietary needs for an active and healthy life.
Over the coming decades, a changing climate, growing global population, rising food prices, and environmental stressors will have significant yet uncertain impacts on food security. Adaptation strategies and policy responses to global change, including options for handling water allocation, land use patterns, food trade, postharvest food processing, and food prices and safety are urgently needed. IFPRI’s work on food security includes analysis of cash transfers, promotion of sustainable agricultural technologies, building resilience to shocks, and managing trade-offs in food security, such as balancing the nutritional benefits of meat against the ecological costs of its production.
IFPRI’s research on this topic is closely aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG 1, SDG 2, and SDG 3.
Food insecurity and COVID-19 risk in low- and middle-income countries
Effect of nutrition counselling with a digital job aid on child dietary diversity: Analysis of secondary outcomes from a cluster randomised controlled trial in rural Bangladesh
Household food insecurity after the early monsoon flash flood of 2017 among wetland (Haor) communities of northeastern Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study
Improving livelihoods through postharvest loss management: Evidence from Nigeria
Monopsonists, disruptive innovation and food security: The case of high‐value commodity
Modernization of family farms improves the sustainability of food security for farm households in Burkina Faso
A&T India Maternal Nutrition Endline Survey 2019: Households - Pregnant Women
Diversification Patterns of Mixed Crop-Livestock Production in Smallholder Farming Systems and Its Implication for Household Food Security: The Case in Gudo Beret Watershed, North Shewa, Central Highlands of Ethiopia
Third National Fadama Development Financing II Impact Study Household Survey in Adamawa
Third National Fadama Development Financing II Impact Study Household Survey in Bauchi
Third National Fadama Development Financing II Impact Study Household Survey in Borno
Third National Fadama Development Financing II Impact Study Household Survey in Gombe
IFPRI HQ EventMar, 29 2022Retail food prices at the country level and implications for food security
IFPRI HQ EventMar, 22 2022Food for All: International Organizations and the Transformation of Agriculture
IFPRI HQ EventMar, 7 2022COVID-19 & Global Food Security: 2 Years Later
IFPRI at External EventJan, 25 - 26 202214th Global Forum for Food and Agriculture
IFPRI HQ EventJan, 19 2022Making agrifood systems more resilient to shocks and stresses
IFPRI at External EventNov, 30 2021Side Event: How Japan’s know-how can help address food and nutrition challenges in the developing world
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The burden of malnutrition (International News)
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COVID: How the crisis has touched Africa (Telos)
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Could Elon Musk really solve world hunger? (NPR)
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A vicious cycle (Millennium Post)
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Global Commons Stewardship (NHK World)
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Global hunger grows (Dhaka Tribune)
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Let's stop child marriage (W and B India Trust)
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Firm outlines 3 economic risks (The Nation)
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Engaging youth in modern agriculture (Blueprint)
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Maize, soya bean farmers duped (The Nation)
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Pandemic of hunger (Nature)
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COVID-19 and Global Food Security (ReliefWeb)
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COVID-19 and Global Food Security (Reliefweb)
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Pandemic threatens food supply (Tagesspiegel)
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Food budget to be 16pc bigger (Daily Star)
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Urgent food help to Africa strained (MoneyWeb)
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Are we heading for a hunger pandemic? (VRT News)
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Poorly distributed (Die Zeit)
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Good move amid myriad challenges (Daily Star)
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No need to panic over stock (News24.com)
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Ensuring food for all (Beijing Review)
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Poverty, food security, open data and COVID-19
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COVID-19 and Global Food Security (WFP-USA)
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Alternative meat can sustain food systems
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Merit of Bt brinjal technology
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A Wasteful Life (The Daily Evergreen)
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Kenyan Farmers Benefit From Insured Loans (VOA)
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Food systems hurting the planet (Bangkok Post)
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Poverty, limited rural jobs crimp SDG attainment
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Project to Improve Tilapia Seed Launched in Accra
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A Sustainable Food Future for Human and Planetary Health
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Livestock production for food security and nutrition
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Preventing an Ebola-related Food Crisis
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Feeding Nine Billion in 2050
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Hunger in Times of Land, Water, and Energy Pressures
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Transforming Agriculture: The Case of Tomato in Ghana
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Rising Food Prices Threaten World's Poor People
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The HIV/AIDS -- Food Insecurity Nexus
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Global Futures
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Best Bets for Reducing Poverty and Hunger
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Hunger and social development (Pakistan Today)
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From Intentions to Implementation
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Global Hunger Index 2015 - Africa Fact Sheet
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Opportunities and Options to End Hunger in Bangladesh
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Preventing versus Treating
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Global Response Needed to Rising Food Prices
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Global Hunger Index 2015 - Asia Fact Sheet
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The Breast Milk Elixir (The New York Times)
Paul Dorosh
Director of Development Strategy and Governance Division
Akhter Ahmed
Senior Research Fellow / Country Representative, IFPRI Bangladesh
Harold Alderman
Senior Research Fellow
Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla
Head of Latin American and Caribbean Program
David Laborde Debucquet
Senior Research Fellow
Will Martin
Senior Research Fellow
Danielle Resnick
Non-Resident Fellow
Projects
Program Compact2025
Project Food Security Portal
Project SPEED
Project The Water Energy Food Nexus
Project Trade Tensions