Publications
Book Chapter
Regional developments [in 2024 Global Food Policy Report]
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Pechtl, Sarah; Kishore, Avinash; Nguyen, Phuong; Chen, Kevin Z.; Harris, Jody; Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio; Piñeiro, ValeriaJournal Article
From food subsidies to cash transfers: Assessing economy-wide benefits and trade-offs in Egypt
Brief
Key findings from midline evaluation of Egypt’s forsa graduation program
Blogs
Informing policies with causal impact evaluations: Co-creation and trust matter
IFPRI assessments provide key information for policymakers.
Food price shocks and diets among poor households in Egypt
High inflation threatens nutrition and livelihoods.
Addressing the food crisis in Yemen: The private sector’s key role amid local conflict and global market disruptions from the Russia-Ukraine war
A tenuous food security situation faces shifting pressures.
Events
Improving Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Nutrition in Nigeria: Policies and Actions
Despite significant progress in addressing hunger and undernutrition in the early 2000s, malnutrition, in all its forms, remains a major challenge in all regions of the world. Unhealthy diets remain the primary drivers of many forms of malnutrition, including undernutrition, overweight and obesity, micronutrient deficiencies, and diet-related noncommunicable diseases. Today, the number of people who […]
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 […]
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
In Middle East, poor miss out as ‘faulty’ algorithms target aid (Reuters)
“Poverty assessment methods powered by algorithms are supposed to make payments fairer, but activists and researchers say such tools often wrongly exclude people,” writes Reuters in a story on new tools to benefit social protection. Sikandra Kurdi, a researcher at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), which was hired by the World Bank to […]
Bread for all and anti-inflation markets to rescue Egyptians from the economic abyss (El País)
El País, in an article about the food crisis in Egypt, quoted IFPRI findings from a recent issue post in the High Food & Fertilizer Prices and War in Ukraine series and interviewed Sikandra Kurdi, IFPRI research fellow based in Cairo, one of the coauthors. The economic shock caused by the war in Ukraine – nearly 85% of wheat imports […]
Biometrics disagreement leads to food aid suspension in Yemen (Devex)
Devex reported on the World Food Programme’s partial suspension of food aid in Yemen due to disagreement over the use of biometric data to track distribution. Associate Research Fellow Sikandra Kurdi was quoted in the article saying that using biometrics makes sense in a context like Yemen where many people lack national identification cards that […]