Global Food Policy Report Hybrid Global Launch Event May 29, 2024 - 9:30 to 11:00am EDT Register Despite significant progress in addressing hunger, malnutrition remains a major challenge in all regions of the world. Unhealthy diets are a major driver of all forms of malnutrition, including undernutrition, overweight and obesity, and micronutrient deficiencies, as […]
IFPRI and UN Food Systems Summit 2021: IFPRI Evidence Informing Food Systems Transformation
IFPRI is pleased to be contributing evidence and knowledge from our research across agrifood systems to the UN Food Systems Summit, scheduled for September 2021. Food systems are central to meeting all of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and this groundbreaking event will set the course for the transformations necessary to ensure our food systems […]
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 […]
Virtual Event: Reflecting on IFPRI’s ‘2020 Vision Initiative’ July 8, 2020 – 09:30 am to 11:00 am EDT
Register Launched in 1993, IFPRI’s 2020 Vision Initiative set out to develop and promote a shared vision to eradicate hunger and malnutrition while protecting the environment and to catalyze global action. Through this initiative, IFPRI hosted a landmark series of high-profile conferences, workshops, and meetings to generate debate; produced an array of publications and […]
Effects of COVID-19 on Ghana’s economy may be worse than feared
In the absence of a vaccine, countries globally have resorted to social distancing, travel restrictions and economic lockdowns to reduce transmission of the coronavirus. While necessary to preserve human life, the socioeconomic costs of these blunt policy measures are high, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa where many live hand-to-mouth and lack access to safety nets to […]