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IFPRI’s 2022 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) highlights the urgency of accelerating innovation, reforming policies, resetting market incentives, and increasing financing for sustainable food systems transformation.

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.

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.

Wheat is a key food item for this country, representing between 35% and 39% of caloric intake per person in the last few years.

Mental ill-health is a significant disease burden. It is responsible for 8% of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) globally—one DALY represents the loss of the equivalent of one year of full health.

With the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting livelihoods, and the new African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) now beginning to influence food flows, agricultural trade in Africa is in a state of flux, with both challenges and opportunities.

In this study, available as an IZA-Institute of Labor Economics working paper, we test two novel interventions designed to empower women.

A challenge to evaluating the impact of agronomy training programs, particularly on downstream impacts such as yield, is the identification of a sample with sufficiently high take-up propensity.