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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi…
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Food Policy Priorities for A Changing World
28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities…
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Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
16.05.25-
Big data
On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Insights into addressing undernutrition from China’s water, sanitation, and energy investments
31.08.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
BY SUMAN CHAKRABARTI AND LEIGH HAMLET Globally, childhood chronic undernutrition is a major public h…
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Enhancing groundwater governance through experimental games in Ghana
22.08.23by Emanuel Obuobie, Claudia Ringler, Hager El Didi, and Wei Zhang OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0…
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Is Ethiopia missing a golden opportunity for addressing hidden hunger? The opportunities and challenges of biofortification
18.08.23-
Nutrition
by Taddese Zerfu, Fantu Bachewe, Tirsit Genye, Meron Girma, Aregash Samuel, James Warmer, and Cornel…
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Unlocking the potential of irrigation for improved nutrition in Ethiopia
09.08.23by Kaleab Baye and Claudia Ringler OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Poor nutrition threatens health, exacerb…
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End of the Black Sea Grain Initiative: Implications for sub-Saharan Africa
07.08.23-
Food security
by Joseph Glauber, Soonho Kim, Elsa Olivetti, and Rob Vos OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Russia’s…
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Interview: IFPRI researchers on the vital message of World Breastfeeding Week
03.08.23OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 World Breastfeeding Week (August 1-7) promotes a universal practice that ha…
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Nigeria’s lesson on scrapping fuel subsidies
01.08.23by Jordan Kyle and Kwaw Andam OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 In his inauguration speech in May, Nigerian…
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Advancing agricultural trade reforms: Latin American contributions to the multilateral trading system
26.07.23by Gloria Abraham Peralta, Adriana Campos, Valeria Piñeiro, and Elsa Olivetti OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4…
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India’s new ban on rice exports: Potential threats to global supply, prices, and food security
25.07.23-
Food security
by Joseph Glauber and Abdullah Mamun OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 On July 20, India announced…
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Russia terminates the Black Sea Grain Initiative: What’s next for Ukraine and the world?
20.07.23-
Food security
by Joseph Glauber, Brian McNamara, and Elsa Olivetti OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 On July 17,…
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Sowing the seeds of resilience among smallholder farmers in Bangladesh
19.07.23by Himanshu Pathak, Taslima Zahan, Apurbo Chaki, and Mamata Pradhan OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Tahera…
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'When the water goes down, we remember the games': A photo story on groundwater governance in Ethiopia
13.07.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Groundwater is a key source of freshwater for drinking and irrigation that also has important…
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AIM4C Summit Side Event: Foresight, climate change, and agrifood systems
12.07.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
by James Thurlow and Faaiqa Hartley OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Climate change poses significant challen…
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Australia's Murray-Darling Basin shows why the ‘social cost of water’ concept won’t work
10.07.23by Sarah Ann Wheeler and Claudia Ringler OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Access to safe, clean…
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Realizing the potential of neglected crops in Latin America
05.07.23-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
BY LYSIANE LEFEBVRE, VALERIA PIÑEIRO, AND BRIAN MCNAMARA Recent crisis-driven increases in food and…
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Cross-sectoral learnings on emerging gender and social norms measures
03.07.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As part of the Harnessing Gender and Social Equality for Resilience in Agrifood Systems (HER+)…
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Using atmospheric satellite data to monitor unfolding economic impacts of conflict in Sudan
28.06.23-
Food security
Y HALA ABUSHAMA, ZHE GUO, KHALID SIDDIG, OLIVER KIRUI, KIBROM ABAY, AND LIANGZHI YOU OPEN…
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Addressing the knowledge gap on the financial needs of firms in the midstream of agricultural value chains
27.06.23-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
by Kate Ambler, Jeffrey R. Bloem, Alan de Brauw, and Sylvan Herskowitz OPEN ACCESS |…
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