April 24, 2024
Human milk banks offer a promising option to address sub-Saharan Africa’s
staggeringly high neonatal mortality rates
May 29, 2024
Rebuilding Livelihoods in Conflict-Affected Communities in Ethiopia
Job opportunity
6 November 2024
The DSG Unit of IFPRI seeks a qualified candidate to serve as a Driver II. This position is a two-years, renewable appointment based in Dakar, Senegal.
Africa
29 October 2024
Africa’s population is the youngest of any region, with more than 400 million young people aged 15 to 35 out of a total of 1.5 billion. But even though rising numbers of this cohort—a “youth bulge”—enter the labor market every year
Events
October 2, 2024
More than half of low-income countries are at risk of debt distress or have already defaulted. The debt crisis, while exacerbated by recent crises, has been looming for several years.
Press Release
13 September 2024
People are going hungry already. This should be the season of plenty but food is running out. There’s evidence that people’s ability to deal with these things has been eroded over time
Africa
11 September 2024
The Ethiopian Health Extension Program (HEP) has long been a cornerstone of the country’s public health strategy, especially in rural and underserved areas. Launched with high hopes in 2003, the HEP aimed to advance health-related
Events
September 12, 2024
Potential Effectiveness of Integrating Human Milk Banking and Lactation Support on Neonatal Outcomes
We assessed the potential effectiveness of human milk banking and lactation support on provision of human milk to neonates admitted in the newborn unit (NBU) at Pumwani Maternity Hospital, Kenya
Blog
25 August 2024
Reducing food loss and waste (FLW) is crucial to improving food security, reducing malnutrition, and providing livelihoods for food system workers. But such efforts are also key to combating climate change.
Blog
6 August 2024
Climate change is transforming the global landscape, creating unprecedented challenges for developing countries. These challenges are particularly acute in regions where economies heavily depend on agriculture
Blog
5 June 2024
Cocoa bean prices have been rising since the last quarter of 2023, hitting a record high of $10.97 per kilogram on April 19. The price spike is due to a significant drop in bean production
Call for Applications
July 29, 2024
GCAN: Gender, Climate Change And Nutrition Integration Initiative is seeking local partners in Senegal to support integration of gender and nutrition in climate change policies. Click here to access the request for proposals.
Events
May 29, 2024
Recent conflicts and recurring droughts in Ethiopia are adversely impacting livelihoods. These necessitate major investments to rebuild and rehabilitate affected communities.
Events
May 2, 2024
Sudan descended into a violent civil war that has displaced more than 8 million people, destroyed critical infrastructure, and left half the country’s population in need of humanitarian assistance
Blog
24 April 2024
Notably, virtually all (99%) of the children who died within the first four weeks of life were in poorer regions, with sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and South Asia being the most affected.
Africa
15 April 2024
IFPRI is seeking an individual to facilitate climate change stakeholder mapping workshops in Dakar, Senegal. This consultancy is open to applicants based in Senegal only.
Events
March 29, 2024
With only one more year to go before the Malabo Declaration expires in 2025, the recently released fourth Biennial Review (BR) report indicates that Africa’s performance in 2023
Events
March 7, 2024
The Global Food 50/50 initiative monitors progress and holds food system organizations accountable for advancing gender-just and equitable food systems.
Blog
19 February 2024
The show revolves around everyday life in a maternal health clinic in Senegal and is developed and produced by the Senegalese NGO Réseau Africain pour l’Education à la Santé.
Africa
22 January 2024
In 2023, IFPRI continued to contribute policy-relevant research to address food system shocks and challenges, including finding ways to build greater resilience
Africa
11 December 2023
IFPRI seeks a qualified candidate to serve as Manager of Administration & Corporate Services for a one-year, renewable appointment in the Finance and Administration Division.
Events
December 7, 2023
Recent global food price spikes and household income losses pose significant challenges to people’s food security and diets, raising important questions for governments and international organizations about how best to support households.
Blog
6 December 2023
A caricature of the situation in climate finance, particularly regarding Africa, is a classic vicious circle: Climate finance is not flowing because of the lack of bankable investment plans
Events
November 29, 2023
Climate scientists are anticipating an El Niño event in the upcoming boreal winter season (November 2023–February 2024), ending the recent three-year La Niña
Blog
27 November 2023
How has the war affected Sudan’s economy? Assessing those impacts is a challenge because Sudan is a relatively data-scarce country, especially in wartime.
Events
22 August 2023
the prevalence of undernourishment in Mali is almost 13 percent and nearly a quarter of all children below the age of five are stunted
Blog
29 August 2023
Thousands of farmers living in the Keta and Anloga districts of Ghana (Figure 1) depend on groundwater from the Keta strip for producing vegetables
Events
August 24, 2023
This brown bag seminar presents ongoing research on the impact evaluation of the PBR cowpea SAMPEA-20T variety in Nigeria.
Blog
16 August 2023
In a recent IFPRI discussion paper, we outline a randomized experiment in Senegal comparing two methods of survey data collection on VAWG
Blog
14 August 2023
Russia’s July 17 withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain Initiative (BSGI), has sparked fears of reduced exports of wheat and other key commodities to developing countries, along with other market disruptions.
Blog
14 August 2023
Hidden hunger—the silent epidemic of micronutrient deficiencies—is driven by poverty and continues to be a major public health challenge in the developing world.
Blog
13 July 2023
Surveys are a key method for social scientists to gather data on living standards. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, such surveys in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)
Blog
1 June 2023
For Africa, which is still recovering from the socio-economic repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine conflict poses a major threat to food security.
Africa
13 April 2023
In Africa, about 282 million people (20 percent of the population) are facing food insecurity and are undernourished, more than double the share in any other region of the world
Blog
31 March 2023
In August-September 2022, eighteen representatives from the government, civil society, the private sector, farmers, and community leaders met in Bolgatanga, Ghana over a series of 3 workshops to explore potential pathways for improving groundwater use and governance in the White Volta basin in the Upper East region of Ghana
Events
March 29, 2023
We bring lessons from Ghana, Malawi, Tajikistan, India, Vietnam, and Bangladesh to identify opportunities for strengthening local capacities of the policy, regulatory, investment, and governance systems.
Blog
22 March 2023
Few places on Earth need accelerated change and progress toward SDG 6 on water and sanitation as much as West Africa’s Niger River Basin, which supports more than 160 million people and covers 2.23 million square kilometers.
Africa
8 March 2023
International Women’s Day 2023 (March 8), under the theme “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality,” recognizes and celebrates the women and girls
Events
27 February 2023
The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is the first-ever direct measure of women’s empowerment and inclusion in the agriculture sector.
Blog
15 February 2023
In rural Kenya, the pandemic has posed serious problems whose impacts are ongoing, particularly for women. I recently spoke with Esther (a pseudonym), a small-scale farmer in Nyandarua
Blog
18 January 2023
The sustainable transformation of Africa’s agrifood processing system has been increasingly recognized as crucial to ensuring the region’s food security, reducing poverty rates, and supporting economic development.
Blog
16 December 2022
Frequent food crises with spiking prices have become the new normal in the 21st century, bringing urgency to the task of understanding their nutritional impacts on poor and food insecure populations.
Events
December 12, 2022
IFPRI is delighted to announce the 32nd Annual Martin J. Forman Memorial Lecture, which will be delivered by Her Excellency Minata Samaté Cessouma
EGYPT
October 20, 2022
As a major agricultural producer in a highly climate-stressed region, Egypt brings a unique perspective to food system resilience.
Events
October 11, 2022
Mentorship is an important process for developing future agricultural and policy researchers. In this seminar, we reflect on the process of mentorship in food policy research
Blog
1 September 2022
The CG centers in Senegal, received on 24 August 2022 at the IFPRI Africa Regional office based in Dakar, the former IITA Director for Country Alignment and Systems Integration
Blog
22 August 2022
A process evaluation of the television edutainment series C’est la Vie!, to document the challenges of implementation in rural, conservative areas of Senegal.
Events
July 20, 2022
Many countries including Kenya are affected by the impacts of the Ukraine and Global Crisis. Prices across a range of commodities including in fertilizers
Blog
14 July 2022
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) seeks a qualified candidate to serve as a Global HR Coordinator to coordinate relocations
Blog
3 July 2022
According to the most recent Kenya Integrated Household Survey Report (KNBS, 2018), the overall poverty headcount rate was 36.1%
Events
July 1, 2022
Food systems encompass connected actors and activities who jointly produce food and nutrition security for all.
Blog
13 June 2022
The current rise in global market prices for major food commodities almost mirrors that of the 2008 food crisis, presenting a worldwide threat to food security.
Events
17 May 2022
Join us at the virtual Africa discussion that will feature a high-level panel to discuss the report's key findings and implications for Africa and its regions.
Blog
13 April 2022
The experience of these small-scale farmers may sound familiar. Many of us have been in a similar situation when buying a product or service—the reality doesn’t match the promise.
Blog
4 April 2022
Food security in West Africa has been deteriorating since 2015: The proportion of the population affected by undernutrition rose from 11.5% in 2015 to 18.7% in 2020, a total of 75.2 million people.
Events
April 1, 2022
Français (French)International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Columbia University,
Blog
17 March 2022
Wheat is a key food item for this country, representing between 35% and 39% of caloric intake per person in the last few years.
