IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities for food policy research in the run up to 2050. Washington, DC | May 28, 2025 — As the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) marks its 50th anniversary, the Institute launches today the 2025 Global Food Policy Report, Food Policy—Lessons and Priorities for a Changing World, a
By Mengisti Berihu Girmay May 30, 2025 Agriculture, like many industries, is continuously evolving through technological innovations. One example is precision agriculture—a practice that employs data collection and analysis to optimize the use of inputs such as water, fertilizers, and pesticides based on local environmental conditions at the sub-field level. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the availability of low-cost sensors
By Tarig Alhaj Rakhy, Shima Mohamed, Khalid Siddig, Hala Abushama, Oliver Kiptoo Kirui, and Paul Dorosh May 29, 2025 Sudan has now entered its third year of armed conflict, resulting in economic collapse and a deepening humanitarian crisis. As of April 2025, over 8.6 million people have been internally displaced, and over 3 million have fled to neighboring countries. Famine has been confirmed in 10 areas and internally displaced person (IDP)
By Jeffrey Bloem, Amy Damon, David C. Francis, and Harrison Mitchell June 3, 2025 From 2010-2020, Nigeria experienced a sharp rise in violence propagated by the jihadist group Boko Haram in the northeast region and escalating inter-group conflict between farmers and Fulani pastoralists in the north-central region. Boko Haram’s violent attacks led to states of emergency in both 2011 and 2013;
By Kalle Hirvonen and Olli-Pekka Kuusela June 6, 2025 As global temperatures rise and climate-related disasters become more frequent, the need to adapt is rapidly increasing. That need for adaptation—from adjusting farming practices to diversifying livelihoods and strengthening infrastructure—is most acute in vulnerable low- and middle-income countries such as Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Haiti and Viet Nam. Despite contributing a negligible share of historical global
Press Release June 12, 2025 In the wake of overlapping global crises of the recent years—including the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia–Ukraine war, and escalating climate variability—fertilizer markets have been affected by unprecedented volatility. These shocks have had far-reaching implications for farm-level profitability, national food security strategies, international trade, and environmental sustainability. The new special issue of the journal Food Policy brings together a
By Claudia Ringler, Edward Kato, and Geoffrey Kiguli June 16, 2025 Healthy soils play a critical role in supporting agricultural productivity, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and a range of ecosystem services. Yet sub-Saharan Africa has experienced the most severe land degradation in the world. There is no shortage of established ways to improve and restore soils—however, these all too often remain “on the
By Alex Oguso, Shadrack Mwatu, Juneweenex Mbuthia From May 5-9, 2025, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA) successfully delivered a training of trainers’ workshop under the CGIAR Policy Innovations program for the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and KIPPRA staff. Building on the foundational work of the CGIAR National