BY EMILY MYERS, FLOR PAZ, AND JENNIFER JOHNSON OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Research on gender and women’s empowerment in food systems and global development is central to IFPRI’s mission. Here we mark International Women’s Day (March 8)—with the theme “Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress”—with an account of our continuing efforts to develop and deploy metrics on women’s empowerment in
by Kate Ambler, Jeff Bloem, Alan de Brauw, and Julia Wagner Agrifood value chains are an integral part of food systems, moving food from farms where it is produced to retailers where it is sold to consumers. Agrifood value chains can be quite simple—consumers can buy directly from farms at farmers’ markets, for example—or they can be quite complex, involving
BY THOMAS FALK, VISHWAMBHAR DUCHE, RICHU SANIL, PRATITI PRIYADARSHINI, HAGAR ELDIDI, RUTH MEINZEN-DICK, AND BRYAN BRUNS OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 An emerging body of literature explores “serious games”— participatory behavioral games created for purposes other than entertainment—as learning tools and interventions for improving natural resource management. Such games, particularly when combined with other tools, have the potential to help agricultural communities
Shaping Global Agendas: The IFPRI Food Security Portal’s Pathways to Impact
BY BRENDAN RICE AND ROB VOS OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 During 2021 and 2022, global food and fertilizer prices spiked due to several overlapping factors. Demand rose as the world economy emerged from the COVID-19 recession; global supply chains suffered major disruptions associated with the uneven recovery; and the outbreak of war between Russia and Ukraine—both key food and
BY CLAUDIA RINGLER OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 The theme of this year’s World Water Day (March 22), “Water for Peace,” could not come at a more opportune time. Global water, food, and humanitarian crises have reached near-unprecedented levels: As a 2023 conference of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences concluded, “The world is facing the highest number of violent conflicts since the Second World
BY HALA ABUSHAMA, KHALID SIDDIG, OLIVER KIRUI, MOSAB AHMED, AND PAUL DOROSH OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Since the onset of civil war in April 2023, millions of people in Sudan have suffered from loss of livelihoods, destruction of infrastructure, and disruption of essential services. With the war still underway, Sudan is facing the world’s largest displacement crisis—with 6.5 million displaced people
The fallout from COVID-19, land grabs, and deforestation in Argentina’s Gran Chaco Forest region MARCH 25, 2024 BY MADISON DAVIS OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 In the spring of 2023, we taught a graduate level course titled “Agri-food Systems and Economic Development” at Georgetown University’s Global Human Development Program. As one of the assignments, we asked the students to write a