IFPRI in 2024
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Contributing to food security and healthy diets
Throughout the year, IFPRI continued our work with local, national, and global partners to develop policy-relevant evidence that addresses widespread malnutrition, builds resilience in conflict-affected food systems, and supports country-led efforts to improve people’s lives. We are pleased to share some highlights from our work here.
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Diets and nutrition
Conflict and resilience
Regional and country development
Transforming food systems to ensure sustainable healthy diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, is a core goal of IFPRI’s research.
Food systems for healthy diets
Increasing the resilience of food systems to conflict and other shocks is central to supporting livelihoods, healthy diets, and sustainability.
IFPRI Making a Difference
IFPRI’s research, communications, and capacity strengthening efforts around the world have contributed to reducing hunger, malnutrition, and poverty, all while increasing equity.
Year in Review 2024
and Priorities for 2025
Global events and regional conflicts in 2024 drew attention to the vital role of food systems in ensuring food and nutrition for everyone and supporting livelihoods in low- and middle-income countries. IFPRI’s long-standing commitment to global and country-level policy research allows us to respond rapidly to crises with analysis and policy recommendations and to build evidence and data to address long-term food system challenges.
As the world faces rapid change and many uncertainties, and progress remains slow on many of the food-related 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, it is imperative that high-quality evidence continue to be the foundation of national, regional, and global development efforts. To that end, we look forward to producing our flagship Global Food Policy Report on Policy Research for Evolving Food Systems in 2025. Marking the Institute’s 50th anniversary, the report will bring together a wide range of global and regional stakeholders for forward-looking discussions of key challenges to our food systems and priorities for policy research and action. These activities will also shape IFPRI’s forward-looking strategy building on our newly articulated approach to research.
IFPRI thanks all our partners and donors who helped make 2024 a productive year, and we welcome your continued collaboration in 2025 as we look toward the future. We invite you explore this interactive Year in Review.
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IFPRI continues its strong engagement with other CGIAR Centers and a wide array of national and regional partners, collaborating on many CGIAR initiatives that address food systems transformation, nutrition, gender equity, climate change, and resilience. IFPRI is excited to take this work forward in 2025 under the streamlined CGIAR 2025–2030 research portfolio.
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events
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Dairy's potential
In a special issue of Food Policy, IFPRI researchers explore the potential for dairy to reduce child stunting and other forms of malnutrition.
Learn about success stories
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Long-time IFPRI senior researcher Dr. Marie Ruel reflected on progress in the global nutrition agenda over the past 30 years.
Global and regional nutrition agenda
Delivering for Nutrition in South Asia (D4N), a flagship regional conference, held in Sri Lanka
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Sudan
In the face of the country’s protracted civil war, IFPRI and partners conducted essential surveys on the conflict’s impact on rural and urban food systems.
IFPRI’s 2024 Global Food Policy Report highlights the importance of putting healthy diets at the heart of food systems transformation and identifies policy routes to improve nutrition outcomes. Events to discuss the report’s findings were held in nine countries, drawing more than 35,000 participants and widespread media coverage.
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Read about the reports
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Famines and Fragility: Making humanitarian, developmental, and peacebuilding responses work
The Socio-Economic Impact of Armed Conflict on Sudanese Urban Households
Sudan at a Crossroads: Food Systems, Hunger, and Humanitarian Aid During Civil Conflict
Myanmar
Visit the Myanmar website
A new IFPRI book looks at the agrifood system through a decade of crises.
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Book
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Gaza
Blog series
As the conflict continues in Gaza, IFPRI researchers track how the war disrupts food systems and affects food security. Read the blog
A special series examines how overlapping crises impact food systems.
Read all our blogs on conflict and food systems
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Africa
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A video to promote women’s agency in Odisha, India
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National Clean India program found to significantly reduce infant mortality
Asia
Support for country- and region-led food systems policy is facilitated by IFPRI’s presence in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. As of 2024, IFPRI hosts research programs in more than 80 countries, including our new office in Papua New Guinea. Read about highlights from our 2024 research here.
Food Security and Nutrition in Bangladesh: Evidence-Based Strategies for Advancement provides a detailed analysis using district- and division-level data and offers actionable recommendations to advance food security and nutrition initiatives amid the country’s significant political transition. Read the report
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Developing African trade
Food Systems Transformation in Kenya, a recent IFPRI book, offers lessons from the past and policy options for the future.
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IFPRI’s evaluations of social protection programs inform program design for improved food security, nutrition, and poverty outcomes for the poorest populations.
Support to agriculture in Nigeria’s conflict areas. Read the blog
A new research agenda for youth. Read the blog
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Latin America and the Caribbean
The AVANZAR2030 project aims to identify innovations in policies, technologies, and institutions that hold potential to build more nutritious, productive, inclusive, and sustainable agrifood systems in Latin America.
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SOMALIA: Read the blog
ETHIOPIA: Watch the event
EGYPT: Read the blog
