Since the mid-2010s, progress in reducing food insecurity and improving diet quality has stalled. Multiple shocks, including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, have exacerbated the situation and put Sustainable Development Goal 2 on Zero Hunger further out of reach.
Economywide modelling workshop for investment and policy prioritization
Social Accounting Matrix (SAM)-based multiplier analysis is a powerful tool for examining the economic impact of various policies and investments across different sectors. By using a Social Accounting Matrix, which provides a comprehensive snapshot of an economy, analysts can simulate how changes in one part of the economy affect the whole system. This methodology is […]
IFPRI @ COP28
Climate change poses unprecedented challenges to the world’s food systems. Rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns, and more frequent extreme weather events threaten agricultural production and the biodiversity and ecosystem services that underpin agriculture. Climate change also affects processing, storage, transport, and retailing of food. These growing climate risks impact food security, nutrition, and human health, […]
Policy Seminar: Implications of El Niño 2023/24 for Africa South of the Sahara
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. In collaboration with USAID FEWS NET and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, IFPRI is hosting a presentation on the potential impact of the upcoming El Niño on the global agrifood system, with […]
33rd Annual Martin J. Forman Memorial Lecture: Tackling Obesity and Noncommunicable Diseases in Mexico
Globally, the prevalence of overweight and obesity has nearly tripled since 1975—among adults over the age of 18, more than 1.25 billion are overweight and 650 million are obese. Overweight and obesity affects more than 340 million children and adolescents ages 5 to 19 and nearly 39 million children under 5. These rates have risen […]
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