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IFPRI in Africa provides on-the-ground support for local research, capacity building, and partnerships to reduce poverty and end malnutrition across the continent.

IFPRI in Africa

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What we do

We conduct evidence-based research on agriculture, food security, nutrition, gender, markets, and climate resilience—tailored to African contexts.

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We share research findings with key stakeholders through policy dialogues, public events, workshops, publications, and blogs.

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Many efforts underway to raise agricultural productivity and improve food security and nutrition in Africa are addressing fundamental issues. These efforts include development of high-yielding, disease-resistant varieties, and restoration of degraded areas; designing and implementing decision-support tools, methodologies, and strategies for food security, natural resource management, and water control; addressing gender inequities and improving women’s access to productive resources and markets; developing food-based guidelines for nutritious foods; and provision of emergency food aid and other humanitarian assistance.

While these efforts are laudable, their impact may be limited when the underlying research solutions (technologies, institutions, and policies) are generated in isolation. By taking a food systems approach, the work activities in this strategic research area aim to bring together detailed spatial data—from geo-referenced household surveys to remote-sensing imagery—at the nexus of geography, climate, farming systems, socioeconomics, political economy, and gender to conduct model-based scenario analyses; these analyses provide evidence to help food system actors and stakeholders make investment decisions that raise agricultural productivity and improve food security and nutrition in Africa sustainably.

Activities include:

  • Analysis of typologies and pathways for food security and nutrition at national, regional, and local levels.
  • Design of solutions to address food and nutrition security.
  • Impact evaluation of nutrition and agriculture development projects.
  • Addressing institutional bottlenecks to technology dissemination and adoption.
  • Development of tools and methods for analyzing food system trade-offs, as well as indicators and metrics for tracking agricultural productivity and food system outcomes.

Related Projects

  1. Strengthening Food Systems to Promote Increased Value Chain Employment Opportunities for Youth
  2. Gender-Responsive Policies for Inclusive Agrifood Systems in Africa
  3. Integrated Project on Agricultural Growth in the Great Lakes region (PICAGL)
  4. Spatial Typologies for Targeted Food and Nutrition Security Interventions
  5. Program of Accompanying Research for Agricultural Innovation (PARI)
  6. Voice for Change Partnership (V4CP)
  7. Advancing Research on Nutrition and Agriculture Phase II (ARENA-II)
  8. Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation (Africa RISING)
  9. Agricultural development, ecosystems and their services
  10. Agricultural Transformation and Policy: What are the policy priorities?
  11. Alive & Thrive
  12. Assessing Models of Public Private Partnerships for Irrigation Development in Africa (AMPPPIDA)
  13. Assessment of the role of irrigation for climate change adaptation in Africa
  14. Creating Homestead Agriculture for Nutrition and Gender Equity (CHANGE)
  15. CropIn SmartFarm Impact and Process Evaluation
  16. Feed the Future Developing Local Extension Capacity (DLEC)
  17. Digital Financial Services Adoption among SMEs in the Midstream of Agricultural Value Chains
  18. Energy Use in Agriculture
  19. Ethiopian Energy Development Strategy
  20. Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small-Scale Irrigation (ILSSI)