James Thurlow
Director, Foresight and Policy Modeling (FPM), Foresight
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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.
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Samuel Benin is the Acting Director for Africa in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. He conducts research on national strategies and public investment for accelerating food systems transformation in Africa and provides analytical support to the African Union’s CAADP Biennial Review.
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IFPRI is committed to providing policy-relevant research for better nutrition and livelihoods.
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IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.
Food crises are shocks to food systems that lead to severe disruptions and cause a surge in acute food insecurity. Food system shocks have diverse causes and impacts. Today, global hunger and malnutrition are rising as a result of multiple overlapping crises—persistent conflicts, climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and surging food prices.
More than half of all food-insecure people live in countries affected by conflict, where violence, civil strife, and food insecurity create a vicious cycle of market disruptions and food scarcity. The most vulnerable populations face the most severe impacts, including forced migration. Climate shocks are also becoming more frequent and damaging, and can have similarly negative impacts on food security.
IFPRI researchers work to break this cycle by identifying crisis triggers to better guide food security policy and other social protection policies and programs. Other research focuses on developing longer-term food security strategies that can improve crisis responses, including efforts to increase resilience and reduce the impact of crises and forced displacement, especially for women and other vulnerable groups.</P
IFPRI maintains the Food Security Portal, which provides early warning on prices and policy changes that can affect food security. IFPRI is also part of the Food Security Information Network (FSIN), a technical platform that produces the annual Global Report on Food Crises.IFPRI’s research on crises is closely aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG 1, SDG 2, SDG8, SDG 10, SDG 11, and SDG16, and the CGIAR Impact Areas on Nutrition, Health, and Food Security and Climate Adaptation and Mitigation.
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A new famine warning.
After a reprieve, more dangerous conditions are reemerging.
More than 20 million face acute food insecurity.
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.
Virtual IFPRI-AMIS Seminar Series: September 26, 2023 at 9:00am-10:30am EDT. This seminar will take stock of existing early warning, early action systems (EWEAs) and examine whether they provide sufficient guidance to policymakers and decisionmakers keen to enhance anticipatory action.
Virtual IFPRI-AMIS Seminar Series: September 7, 2023 at 9:30am-11:00am EDT. This session will examine whether increased concentration necessarily leads to increased market power or simply reflects the underlying economic efficiencies controlling value chains.
November 16, 2023, Rome — The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) initiative reaches a new milestone today as it expands its global partnership to include four new partners – the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO) – and establishes […]
“With duties, export bans, and other restrictions, New Delhi is harming the same developing nations it claims to want to lead,” writes Mihir Sharma, a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and a senior fellow at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi. Sharma adds, “Three calamities have caused grain supplies to dry up: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine […]
“Export restrictions and extreme weather are threatening the global supply of a staple commodity relied on by millions,” writes the Financial Times. The sharp increase in the cost of this everyday staple can be traced to a crackdown by India, the world’s largest rice exporter, in response to fears of a production shortfall and rising […]
Director, Foresight and Policy Modeling (FPM), Foresight
and Policy Modeling
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Trade, and Institutions
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Strategies and Governance
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and Policy Modeling
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Trade, and Institutions, Latin America and the Caribbean
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Gender, and Inclusion
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Strategies and Governance
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Strategies and Governance
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Gender, and Inclusion
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Strategies and Governance