By Eliot Jones-Garcia May 14, 2025 This is the first installment in a new blog series from the IFPRI-led initiative AI For Food Systems Research. A related webinar series will begin with a June 5 genAI skills workshop for researchers. Amid the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in agricultural research, policy, and extension, this project brings together researchers and practitioners across
By Musa Tukur Yakasai, Bello Yakasai, Yohanna Moses, Bedru Balana, Elizabeth Bryan, Augustine Iraoya, and Claudia Ringler May 12, 2025 Climate change impacts—including increasing temperatures, shifting rainfall patterns, and intensifying extreme weather events—have hit Nigeria hard, reducing agricultural productivity, driving up food prices, and limiting access to nutritious food. Climate-related damage to roads, irrigation, education, and health care infrastructure has also undermined
By Emily Myers, Jessica Heckert, Hazel Malapit, Agnes Quisumbing, Flor Paz, Chiara Brunelli, and Chiara Gnetti May 7, 2025 Governments’ adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in 1995—which advanced a set of common principles on gender equality—elevated women’s empowerment in policy as an end in itself, not just as a means to achieving other development outcomes. While great strides have been made
By Valeria Piñeiro, Juan Pablo Gianatiempo, Fousseini Traoré, and Joseph Glauber May 6, 2025 Third in a blog series examining the potential consequences of the recently-imposed U.S. tariffs for global agrifood trade. Read the first post here and the second here. Current U.S. trade policies—though primarily focused on major global players including China, the European Union, and North American partners Canada and Mexico—also have economic consequences for
By James Allen IV May 5, 2025 In the wake of a series of recent crises that drove up global hunger and food insecurity, the world remains far off track in meeting Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2)—ending hunger and malnutrition by 2030. Now, in a chaotic global environment of still more crises and complications, including cuts in official development assistance, what is
By Yunyi Zhou, Wei Zhang, and Kevin Chen April 30, 2025 Reconciling and harmonizing rural development, food security, equity and social inclusion, and conservation remains challenging for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) as they work toward meeting the Sustainable Development Goals. Payment for environmental services (PES) offers a promising, market-based approach to these challenges, helping to encourage ecosystem service (ES) provision
By Agnes Quisumbing, Jordan Kyle, Katrina Kosec, and Catherine Ragasa April 25, 2025 Research shows that women play pivotal roles in farming—across value chains, and in food systems as a whole. With harmful effects of climate change, conflict, forced migration, and other problems on the rise, many women around the world find themselves in increasingly fragile settings—creating new challenges in efforts to achieve
By Joseph Glauber, Juan Pablo Gianatiempo, and Valeria Piñeiro April 21, 2025 Second in a blog series examining the potential consequences of the recently-proposed U.S. tariffs for global agrifood trade. Read the first post here. The Trump administration’s ever-changing trade policies are now focused on China, in what looks to be a replay of the 2018-2019 U.S.-China trade war that resulted in large losses