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June 2024 has seen record-breaking heat waves across various parts of the world, significantly impacting agriculture and human health. These extreme heat events are linked to climate change, which is increasing the frequency, intensity, and duration of heat waves globally.
IFPRI, together with partners across CGIAR and beyond, works to analyze the impacts of climate change on food, land, and water systems and assess and develop possible mitigation strategies. Check some of our latest publications and events on this topic:
Ending groundwater overdraft without affecting food security (Article in Nature Sustainability) (Press Release)
Revisiting development strategy under climate uncertainty: Case study of Malawi (Article in Climatic Change)
The unjust climate: Measuring the impacts of climate change on rural poor, women, and youth (Policy Seminar)
Tackling gender inequality in a climate-changed world: How agrifood and social protection systems can empower women and girls to build climate resilience (Issue Blog)
Reviving public extension for climate-resilient agriculture: Lessons and insights from India, Indonesia, and Nepal (Issue Blog)
Learn more about IFPRI’s work on climate change here.
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Food transfers, cash transfers, behavior change communication, and child nutrition: While global improvements in child nutrition have occurred over the last 20 years, undernutrition remains widespread. Akhter Ahmed, John Hoddinott, and Shalini Roy assessed the impacts on early childhood nutritional status of the Transfer Modality Research Initiative (TMRI) in two poor rural areas of Bangladesh, and found that cash transfers and nutrition BCC had a large impact on nutritional status. (Read article in The World Bank Economic Review)
Enhancing agency and empowerment in agricultural development projects: Development interventions increasingly include women’s empowerment and gender equality among their objectives, but evaluating their impact has been stymied by the lack of measures that are comparable across interventions. Agnes R. Quisumbing, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Hazel J. Malapit, Greg Seymour, Jessica Heckert, Emily Myers, and co-authors synthesized the findings of 11 mixed-methods impact evaluations of agricultural development projects from South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. (Read article in Journal of Rural Studies)
Sweetened beverage tax implementation and change in body mass index among children in Seattle: Few studies have assessed the association between sweetened beverage taxes and health outcomes. Suman Chakrabarti and co-authors evaluated the association between the Seattle sweetened beverage tax and change in body mass index (BMI) among children, finding that the tax was associated with a modest decrease in BMIp95 among children living in Seattle. (Read article in JAMA Network Open)
Consumer preferences matter for transforming food systems for sustainable healthy diets: Evidence from rural Bangladesh: Food consumption patterns and consumer preferences are often not well understood in many countries of the global South. In this new IFPRI Issue Brief, Olivier Ecker, Andrew R. Comstock, Alan de Brauw, Xinshen Diao, and Md. Ruhul Amin Talukder examine demand responses to price and income changes among rural households in Bangladesh. (Read IFPRI Issue Brief)
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Trade policy and food price volatility: Beggar thy neighbor or beggar thyself?
Recent shocks have disrupted global food and fertilizer supply chains—causing price spikes and increased price volatility—a disastrous combination for many vulnerable consumers around the world. As in past global food price crises, governments have used trade policies to try to protect consumers from rising prices. Will Martin, Abdullah Mamun, Nick Minot, and Rob Vos examine the impacts of these policies on world rice and wheat prices. (Read blog)
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World Food Safety Day 2024: Empowering consumers and small businesses with information: Measures to promote food safety benefit everyone. In observation of World Food Safety Day 2024 (June 7), Vivian Hoffmann highlights IFPRI research that shows several key ways that interventions targeted at vendors, butchers, and other small businesses can make a clear difference in food safety and public health. ( Read blog)
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Shaping the future of agrifood systems: Insights from an Avanzar2030 workshop in Costa Rica: The project Avanzar2030: Innovation for Sustainable Agrifood Systems seeks to identify policies, technologies, and institutions that can drive positive change in LAC—and contribute to larger global efforts. Daniela Salas, Mali Eber Rose, and Brian McNamara write about a recent Avanzar2030 workshop. (Read blog)
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Experts: What is causing food prices to spike around the world? Carbon Brief quoted Rob Vos in this article on the biggest factors driving spiking food prices since 2023. “Food prices in global markets are most sensitive to weather conditions and supply disruptions in major producing countries,” Vos said. (Read news)
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How an innovative modeling work can power governance in Indonesia: FAO writes about a pioneering evidence-based approach developed by a team of researchers from the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, IFPRI, the International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA), and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), which has supported the Government of Indonesia in considering new policy opportunities to transform the country’s agrifood systems. (Read news)
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India scorching part 1: Is there a food crisis looming large? The Economic Times Podcast (India) featured Avinash Kishore in this episode exploring the devastating effects of recent high temperatures in India on agriculture, labor productivity, and public health. (Listen to the podcast)
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 2024 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) India Launch
July 4, 2024, 9:30 – 11:00 am (New Delhi, India)
Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Nutrition: The MENA launch of IFPRI’s 2024 Global Food Policy Report
July 8, 2024, 9:00 – 11:00 am (Cairo, Egypt)
GFPR Southeast Asia Launch: Improving Diets and Nutrition through Food Systems: What Will it Take?
July 17, 2024, 7:30 – 3:00 pm (Asia/Manila)
Improving Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Nutrition in Nigeria: Policies and Actions
July 25, 2024, 10:00 – 1:30 pm (Lagos, Nigeria)
2024 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting
July 28-30, 2024
32nd International Conference of Agricultural Economists
August 2-7, 2024 (New Delhi, India)
Please check our Events page for most recent updates.
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On June 7, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and IFPRI held a hybrid launch event featuring the China 2024 Agricultural Sector Development Report and IFPRI’s 2024 Global Food Policy Report. (Learn more)
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The sixth policy seminar in the CGIAR series on Strengthening Food Systems Resilience, held on June 11, took stock of what we know about key drivers of protracted food crises and persistent fragility. (Watch recording)
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This webinar on June 12 demonstrated how IFPRI’s Rural Investment and Policy Analysis (RIAPA) modeling system has been used to identify priority agricultural value chains that most effectively contribute to development outcomes. (Watch recording)
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On June 27, the Latin America and Caribbean launch of the 2024 Global Food Policy Report focused on how the region can develop national food systems that ensure sustainable healthy diets, drawing on findings from the report. (Learn more)
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Meet the new IFPRI.ORG!
We are excited to present an updated version of the IFPRI website launched in June!
Our new site boasts fresh design, a clean and intuitive layout that adapts seamlessly across all devices, streamlined navigation, and improved search functionality for a more efficient browsing experience. We hope you’ll enjoy it as much as we do! www.ifpri.org
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Launched this June, the Measures for Advancing Gender Equality (MAGNET) website includes tools to measure three dimensions of women’s agency, or ability to make strategic life choices, that have high potential for catalyzing progress on women’s economic empowerment, but for which the body of existing measurement methods is weak or under-tested: (i) ownership and control of assets, (ii) goalsetting and decision-making, and (iii) sense of control and efficacy.
Explore the new MAGNET website and tools here: https://magnet.ifpri.info/
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