Irrigation is a potentially transformative technology for sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) that can address many of the region’s food system challenges, including growing food import dependence and stagnating rural employment—both linked to low agricultural productivity growth, poor market access, and weak financial systems—as well as climate change, characterized by unpredictable rainfall, prolonged dry spells, and floods.
While Uzbekistan offers generous subsidies to tackle its water crisis, a hidden barrier remains: the power grid. Our research reveals why even 92% subsidies fail to convince many farmers when unreliable electricity and poor technical support make new technologies a risky bet.
Demand system estimation—gauging how consumer choices respond to changing prices and incomes—is a crucial facet of food policy research, yet remains a highly specialized and underdeveloped area in development economics
International migration has expanded rapidly over the past two decades, outpacing global population growth. A large share of migrants come from rural areas, which also receive about 40% of worldwide remittance inflows
Globally, 2025 marked a year with some important achievements and notable setbacks in efforts to achieve healthier, sustainable food systems
In the paddy fields of Odisha, India, many farmers cultivate land they do not own—and without land titles, they cannot use their fields as collateral for formal credit
Launched in January 2025 as a DTA-linked project, Fairgrounds aims to be the gateway for CGIAR to access global research data, while also opening CGIAR’s research data to the world.
Huge datasets are the cornerstone of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, including the large language models (LLMs) that power chatbots and other generative AI applications.