Blogs
Shaping the future of agrifood systems: Insights from an Avanzar2030 workshop in Costa Rica
Surfacing the most promising innovations.
Tackling gender inequality in a climate-changed world: How agrifood and social protection systems can empower women and girls to build climate resilience
Five key ways to promote adaptation.
Trade policy and food price volatility: Beggar thy neighbor or beggar thyself?
The downsides of emergency trade measures.
Events
Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Nutrition: The MENA launch of IFPRI’s 2024 Global Food Policy Report
Unhealthy diets are a major driver of all forms of malnutrition, including undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, and overweight and obesity. Despite increasing global efforts to address malnutrition, as many as 3 billion people globally cannot afford healthy diets. The need to transform our food systems to ensure sustainable healthy diets for everyone is more urgent than […]
How do we prioritize agrifood system policies and investments? Insights from the RIAPA modeling system
Virtual Event: June 12, 2024 at 10:00am-11:00am EDT. In this webinar, we will demonstrate how RIAPA has been used to identify priority agricultural value chains that most effectively contribute to development outcomes.
Famines and Fragility: Making humanitarian, developmental, and peacebuilding responses work
Virtual Event: June 11, 2024 – 9:30 AM- 11:15 AM EDT. This seminar will take stock of what we know of key drivers about protracted food crises and persistent fragility and about the obstacles to successful HDP action.
News
Global crisis: 1.7 billion people in urban and peri-urban areas face food insecurity
New UN report highlights urgent need to strengthen urban and peri-urban food systems for global food security and nutrition.
The 2024 Global Food Policy Report Stresses Urgent Need for Transformative Action to Achieve Sustainable Healthy Diets and Improved Nutrition
Washington DC, May 29, 2024: In the face of growing challenges posed by unhealthy diets, all forms of malnutrition, and environmental constraints, the 2024 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) — released today by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) — underscores the importance of transforming complex global food systems to ensure sustainable healthy diets for all. Progress […]
Why a campaign has started to bring back some plants that have been forgotten (NPR)
In a radio story, NPR explains that the world depends on just a few crops for most of its food. Because that dependence could be risky, a new international effort supports research and development of overlooked plants as food sources. NPR interviewed Purnima Menon, senior director of Food and Nutrition Policy at IFPRI, who discussed countries that had invested in […]
Projects
Women’s empowerment in agrifood governance (WEAGov)
The Women’s Empowerment in Agrifood Governance (WEAGov) is an assessment tool developed by IFPRI and partners to help evaluate the extent to which women are……
SPEED
Public expenditure is a powerful instrument for governments to use in achieving sustainable growth, poverty reduction, and transformation. Understanding the linkages between different types of……