IFPRI Year in Review 2023

IFPRI in 2023

Country with significant research

IFPRI Headquarters

IFPRI regional office

IFPRI country program office

Contributing to food systems transformation

Events around the globe in 2023—including conflicts, climate crises, and high levels of food price inflation—highlighted the urgent need to transform food systems to address poverty and malnutrition. IFPRI’s research and engagement contributed to efforts to build knowledge around food systems, include the most vulnerable, and prepare for the future. We are pleased to share some highlights from our work here.

437

peer-reviewed publications

1,093,446

publication views

18,200

publication citations

575,093

blog views

events

podcast releases

125

donors (2022)

600+

staff

Addressing food system challenges

Building food system resilience

Fostering inclusion and equity

International markets continued to be volatile and subject to market disruptions, compounding fiscal and macroeconomic challenges in low- and middle-income countries. IFPRI’s modeling, tracking, and analytic work provided timely information and policy guidance for practitioners, experts, and nonexperts dealing with current challenges including high levels of inflation, ongoing conflicts, and widespread malnutrition.

Geared toward reaching broader audiences, such as policymakers, development experts, and other food system stakeholders, the IFPRI-AMIS 2023 Policy Seminar Series featured timely updates on how international market developments, combined with country-specific or regional developments, are impacting food systems around the world.

Market Challenges

Russia-Ukraine war

Food systems are vulnerable to multiple shocks, including conflicts and economic crises, and to the impacts of climate change. To protect and improve livelihoods and food security, IFPRI’s research explores ways to build sustainability and resilience to concurrent shocks and long-term climate disruption.

Water use

Small-scale irrigation

Ecosystem services

Fertilizer Market Dashboard

Creating inclusive food systems that provide nutritious food and decent livelihoods for women and men, particularly in vulnerable communities, informs all of IFPRI’s research and engagement.

IFPRI Making a Difference

Around the world, IFPRI’s longstanding commitment to research, communications, and capacity strengthening have contributed to reducing hunger, malnutrition, and poverty while increasing equity.

Looking Forward to 2024

IFPRI thanks all our partners and donors who helped make 2023 a productive year. We look forward to continued collaboration in 2024, as we work together to find sustainable, equitable solutions to end hunger and malnutrition.

Year in Review 2023

Food systems are crucially important for providing food and nutrition to the world’s growing population and for supporting livelihoods, primarily in low- and middle-income countries. But to end hunger and malnutrition, food systems must transform to address deteriorating food security and malnutrition trends and better cope with climate change, while also becoming more sustainable. IFPRI’s commitment to providing research and data for better nutrition and livelihoods means that we work across food systems from farms to markets to consumers. In 2023, IFPRI continued to contribute policy-relevant research to address food system shocks and challenges, including finding ways to build greater resilience into food systems to make them less vulnerable to future shocks, and to foster inclusion and equity for a better future for all. We invite you to explore this interactive Year in Review.

IFPRI researchers demonstrated the alarming impact of food price inflation on child undernutrition. Read the press release

IFPRI’s ongoing coverage and analysis—including blogs, events, and an e-book—received the 2023 Quality of Communication Award from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

Read the e-book

Explore our research

Read our blog series on the repercussions of the Russia-Ukraine war and other factors exacerbating food price inflation and food insecurity.

Rethinking Crisis Response

The 2023 Global Food Policy Report examines how we can better prepare for and respond to crises by building food system resilience.

Resilient Food Systems

Events: View the ongoing IFPRI-curated CGIAR Policy Seminar Series on Strengthening Food Systems Resilience

Policy Change: Recognizing the crucial importance of policy reforms, this recent book examines political economy considerations for transforming food systems. Read book

Explore our work on sustainable natural resource use.

Fertilizer Market Dashboard

Key messages

Report

Interactive website

Climate Change

In line with the COP28 declaration calling for urgent adaptation and transformation of food systems to respond to climate change, a focus on climate change has been and continues to be embedded across all of IFPRI’s research. IFPRI Spotlight on COP28

Learn more about our work on climate change mitigation and adaptation. Publication

Measuring Women’s Empowerment

Improving Nutrition

Fertilizer Market Dashboard

WEMNS

WEAGov

New WEAI modules

Expansion of the widely adopted Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) toolkit is now addressing women’s inclusion in markets and in governance, in nutrition-sensitive projects, and national statistical systems. Learn about the new tools:

Getting nutritious food to children. Read blog

Understanding food environments. View interactive

Promoting breastfeeding. Read blog

Supporting healthier diets. Read the brief

IFPRI continues its strong engagement with our colleagues from other CGIAR centers and a wide array of national and regional partners, collaborating on a wide array of CGIAR thematic and regional research initiatives that address food systems transformation, nutrition, gender equity, climate change, and resilience.

Message from IFPRI’s Director General and Senior Directors

Johan Swinnen

IFPRI Director General and CGIAR Managing Director of Systems Transformation Science Group

Purnima Menon

Senior Director, Food and Nutrition Policy, CGIAR and IFPRI

Senior Director, Transformation Strategies, CGIAR and IFPRI

Channing Arndt

Click here to see IFPRI’s new operational structure

Learn more here about the research initiatives housed in the Systems Transformation Science Group and their accomplishments in 2023

Read our 2023 stories of IFPRI's impact

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Year in Review