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By Sikandra Kurdi, Mohsen Sarhan, and Ali Abdelhadi August 4, 2025 The Gaza Strip has entered a “worst case” food crisis, with its population now facing famine, according to a July 29 Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) alert. Responding to growing international outrage over the emergency, two days earlier, Israel said it was reopening humanitarian aid corridors—allowing international organizations to resume

By Taddese Zerfu August 6, 2025 In Africa, digital technologies are rapidly changing the way health care is provided, monitored, and evaluated. Ethiopia’s experience with the national web-based health information management platform, District Health Information Software 2 (DHIS2), shows how data systems can be a game changer in advancing improved maternal and child health (MCH) outcomes—even in settings with few

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By Ruth Hill and Danielle Resnick August 11, 2025 Worldwide, government spending on subsidies in agriculture, fishing, and fossil fuels amounts to a staggering $1.25 trillion annually. Subsidies play a significant role in every country’s fiscal policies, regardless of income level or spending patterns. Spending on energy and agricultural subsidies consistently accounts for 2%-3% of GDP on average across income levels and make the production

Authors: Shadrack Mwatu and Juneweenex Mbuthia In July and August 2025, the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), in collaboration with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), conducted a ten-day intensive training of trainers’ workshop on Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modelling under the CGIAR Policy Innovations program. Held at KIPPRA’s offices, the training brought together technical

By Inge Brouwer, Deanna Olney, Purnima Menon, and Julie Ghostlaw August 15, 2025 A nutrition-sensitive food system ensures equitable access to diverse, safe, and healthy foods that are both affordable and sustainably produced. Yet today’s food systems are failing to deliver on these key goals for billions around the world. They are also major drivers of climate change, environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, and

Preventing child wasting is more urgent than ever before. Nearly 43 million children worldwide suffer from wasting at any given time, and severe wasting accounts for 20% of deaths among children under 5 years of age. This situation will likely worsen as conflicts and crises intensify poverty and food insecurity around the world. Research on how to address child wasting

Efforts to promote the adoption of new and improved agricultural technologies often focus on increasing yields. This is for a good reason. There is a large and persistent gap in agricultural productivity between low-income countries, especially in Africa, and the rest of the world. For example, according to FAO Stat, maize yields in the United States reached 11.1 metric tons per hectare in