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 […]
CGIAR’s 50 Years of Innovation that Changed the World
Innovation: IFPRI’s Climate-Smart Modeling and futures Methods for surveillance, scenarios work, and modeling inform crucial policy on agriculture, development, & climate adaptation, and improve resilience. To read more, click here
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 […]
Climate and Poverty in Africa South of the Sahara
Smallholder farmers appear to be the most vulnerable to weather variability, both for floods and droughts, compared to both large-holder farmers and non-farming households.
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