IFPRI’s 2020 Annual Report presents highlights from our research work around the world. Cutting-edge research on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and related policies, and on our strategic research areas—climate resilience and sustainability, healthy diets and nutrition, inclusive and efficient food systems, institutions and governance, and rural transformation, as well as cross-cutting work on […]
Earth Day 2021: Understanding the role of gender in building healthier soils
by Wei Zhang and Jessica Wallach Maintaining healthy soils is crucial to long-term agricultural sustainability and food security—yet soils face major stresses worldwide. In 2015, the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils rated one third of land worldwide as moderately to highly degraded. The impacts are especially serious in Africa south of the Sahara and South […]
World Water Day 2021: How can we manage better what we value most?
by Claudia Ringler and Ruth Meinzen-Dick The theme of World Water Day 2021 (March 22) is “Valuing Water”—recognizing that unless resources are valued, they won’t be used sustainably. But Water has not one, but many values. Life could not exist without it, and it has profound spiritual, religious, and cultural associations. Water also has important […]
New Book: Ethiopia’s Agrifood System: Past trends, present challenges, and future scenarios
Ethiopia has experienced impressive agricultural growth and poverty reduction, stemming in part from substantial public investments in agriculture. Yet, the agriculture sector now faces increasing land and water constraints along with other challenges to growth. Ethiopia’s Agrifood System: Past Trends, Present Challenges, and Future Scenarios presents a forward-looking analysis of Ethiopia’s agrifood system in the […]
M&E Support to Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ): Enumerator Training
Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) is Ghana’s flagship program for agricultural transformation and employment creation in Ghana. The program provides subsidized fertilizer, hybrid and open-pollinated seeds and other planting materials, as well as improved extension services and marketing support to smallholder farmers across the country. Execution of the program is being done with funding […]