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2025: Informing CAADP 2026–2035: What a decade of IFPRI Research in Africa tells us

John M. Ulimwengu, Aboubacar Hema, Wim Marivoet and Steven Were Omamo

2025: Navigating Nigeria’s food system challenges in the face of inflation and reform

Steven Were Omamo, Kwaw S. Andam, Bedru Balana, Mulubrhan Amare, Olufemi Popoola and Chibuzo Nwagboso

2025: US tariffs on the horizon: How will India’s economy be affected?

Barun Deb Pal and Manmeet Singh Ajmani

2024: Effect of organic fertilizer use on crop yield and soil health in maize production in Kenya

Hua Xie

2024: Strengthening women’s voice and agency in Nigeria: Evidence from a randomized control trial on women’s advocacy and men’s allyship trainings

Claire Adida, Katrina Kosec, Jordan Kyle, Cecilia H. Mo, Leonardo Arriola, Dolapo Adeyanju and Rachel Fisher

2024: Evaluating hydropower and irrigation development in Sudan under climate change uncertainties

Mohammed Basheer, Zuhal Elnour, Cristo Facundo Pérez, Wenxi Liao, Khalid Siddig and Claudia Ringler

2024: Financial and environmental outlook of groundwater-solar irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa

Hua Xie, Ruijie Zeng and Claudia Ringler

2024: Constraints to agricultural mechanization in Ethiopia: The case of solar irrigation pumps

Claudia Ringler, Tiruwork Arega, Tesfaye Hailu and Hannibal B. Tesfahunegn

2024: Rwandan maize market price dynamics: Structure, trends and policy implications

James Warner, Gilberthe Uwera Benimana, Serge Mugabo, Josue Niyonsingiza, Emerence Mukangabo and Chantal Ingabire

2024: Repurposing agricultural support: Modeling outcomes of different approaches

David Laborde Debucquet and Valeria Piñeiro

2024: Gender and age gaps in voice & agency in community governance: The value of female local political representation in India and Africa South of the Sahara under intensifying conflicts and climate uncertainty

Hiroyuki Takeshima, Jordan Kyle, Katrina Kosec and Kalyani Raghunathan

2024: Synopsis: Assessing agricultural extension agent digital readiness in Rwanda

Kristin E. Davis, Gracie Rosenbach, David Spielman, Simrin Makhija and Lucy Mwangi

2024: Synopsis: Enhancing smallholder farmers’ profitability through increased crop commercialization in Rwanda

Serge Mugabo and James Warner

2024: Real-time market price monitoring: Current dynamics in southern Rwanda

James Warner and Rhys Manners

2024: Synopsis: Crop commercialization in Rwanda: Current market participation and drivers

James Warner, Gilberthe Uwera Benimana, Serge Mugabo and Chantal Ingabire

2024: Synopsis: Identifying farm typologies in Rwandan agriculture: A framework for improving targeted interventions

Gilberthe Uwera Benimana, James Warner and Serge Mugabo

2024: Synopsis: Agricultural Mechanization in Rwanda

Hiroyuki Takeshima, Gilberthe Uwera Benimana, David Spielman and James Warner

2024: Should Sri Lanka attempt to achieve self-sufficiency in pulses?

Kiruthika Natarajan, Manoj Thibbotuwawa and Suresh Chandra Babu

2024: Synopsis: Rwanda smallholder agricultural commercialization survey: Overview using selective categorical variables

James Warner, Gracie Rosenbach, Gilberthe Uwera Benimana, Serge Mugabo, Josue Niyonsingiza, Emerence Mukangabo, Bertrand Dushimayezu, Octave Nshimiyimana, Chantal Ingabire and David Spielman

2024: Building food security and resilience through intraregional trade in Latin America and the Caribbean

Nelson Illescas, Brian McNamara, Piñeiro, Valeria and Rodriguez, Agustín Tejeda

2024: From promises to action: Strengthening global commitments to fight hunger and food insecurity

Channing Arndt, Heidi Fritschel, Derek D. Headey, Elyse Iruhiriye, Eleanor Jones, Will Martin, Purnima Menon, Danielle Resnick, Shoba Suri, Robert Vos and Christina Zorbas

2024: Integrating consumer traits is key to increasing uptake of improved crop varieties: Evidence and policy insights from seed sample packs and cooking events in Uganda

Gashaw T. Abate, Berber Kramer, Leocardia Nabwire, Carly Trachtman and Bjorn Van Campenhout

2024: Improving resource targeting in Niger: Joint financial analysis and food system mapping

Nadine Gbossa and John M. Ulimwengu

2023: A healthy diet is costly, but even with limited income Kenyans can eat better

Olivier Ecker, Andrew R. Comstock and Karl Pauw

2023: Risk-Contingent Credit (RCC): Assessing smallholders' agricultural credit needs and the feasibility of implementing RCC in Ethiopia

Anne G. Timu, Apurba Shee, Marta Yilma, Temesgen Bellisa, Temesgen Kebede and Liangzhi You

2023: Exploring how land inheritance shapes youth migration and work choices in rural Nigeria

Mulubrhan Amare, Kwaw S. Andam, George Mavrotas and Adebayo Ogunniyi

2023: Egypt’s Takaful Cash Transfer Program: Impacts and recommendations from the second round evaluation

Hoda El-Enbaby, Dalia Elsabbagh, Daniel Gilligan, Naureen Karachiwalla, Bastien Kolt and Sikandra Kurdi

2022: Transforming food systems in Kenya for a new era of growth and prosperity: Research-based recommendations for the new government

Clemens Breisinger, Joseph T. Karugia, Michael Keenan and Juneweenex Mbuthia

2022: India’s self-sufficiency policies for pulses and their implications for Myanmar

Devesh Roy, Manmeet Singh Ajmani, Ruchira Boss, Mamata Pradhan and Andrew Laitha

2021: Public food transfers during a pandemic: Insights from Bangladesh

Shyamal Chowdhury, Muhammad Nahian Bin Khaled, Kalyani Raghunathan and Shahidur Rashid

2021: Achieving sustainable agricultural practices: From incentives to adoption and outcomes

Piñeiro, Valeria, Joaquin Arias, Pablo Elverdin, Ibáñez, Ana María, Cristian Morales Opazo, Steven D. Prager and Maximo Torero

2021: Transforming Nigeria’s agrifood system: Wealthier, but also healthier

Olivier Ecker, Tracy Brown and Kwaw S. Andam

2021: Policy-induced market distortions along agricultural value chains: Evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria

Summer L. Allen, Girma Kassie, Fahd Majeed and Simla Tokgoz

2020: Breaking down silos: On post-harvest loss interventions in Tanzania

Joachim Vandercasteelen and Luc Christiaensen

2019: Negotiating agricultural trade: Options for moving forward

Joseph W. Glauber and Marie Parent

2019: The palm oil dilemma: Policy tensions among higher productivity, rising demand, and deforestation

Keith D. Wiebe, Timothy Sulser, P. Pacheco, Alessandro (Alex) De Pinto, Daniel Mason-D'Croz, A. Dermawan, Timothy Thomas, Man Li, Sherman Robinson and S. Dunston

2019: How to improve rural service delivery in developing countries: Complementarities, information, and incentives

Katrina Kosec and Catherine Ragasa

2019: Responding to conflict: Does “Cash Plus†work for preventing malnutrition? New evidence from an impact evaluation of Yemen’s Cash for Nutrition Program

Sikandra Kurdi, Clemens Breisinger, Hosam Ibrahim, Yashodhan Ghorpade and Afrah Al-Ahmadi

2019: National Dialogue: Innovations for promoting balanced application of macro and micro nutrient fertilizers in Indian agriculture

Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia

2018: Egypt’s Takaful and Karama cash transfer program: Evaluation of program impacts and recommendations

Clemens Breisinger, Hagar ElDidi, Hoda El-Enbaby, Daniel Gilligan, Naureen Karachiwalla, Yumna Kassim, Sikandra Kurdi, Amir Hamza Jilani and Giang Thai

2018: Egypt's Takaful and Karama cash transfer program: Evaluation of program impacts and recommendations [in Arabic]

Clemens Breisinger, Hoda El-Enbaby, Hagar ElDidi, Daniel Gilligan, Amir Hamza Jilani, Naureen Karachiwalla, Yumna Kassim, Sikandra Kurdi and Giang Thai

2017: From famine to food security: Lessons for building resilient food systems

Suresh Chandra Babu and Paul Dorosh

2016: El Niño and cereal production shortfalls: Policies for resilience and food security in 2016 and beyond

Paul Dorosh, Adam Kennedy and Maximo Torero

2016: Climate change and agricultural policy options: A global-to-local approach

Alessandro (Alex) De Pinto, Keith D. Wiebe and Mark W. Rosegrant

2015: The EU refugee crisis: The tip of a global iceberg

Jean-François Maystadt and Clemens Breisinger

2013: Insuring countries against natural disasters: Pool rules

Daniel Clarke and Ruth Hill

2012: Ensuring food and nutrition security in a green economy

Shenggen Fan, Claudia Ringler, Ephraim Nkonya and Alexander Stein

2012: Improving regional fertilizer markets in West Africa

Balu L. Bumb, Michael E. Johnson and Porfirio A. Fuentes

2011: Agriculture, food, and water nanotechnologies for the poor: Opportunities and constraints

Gruère, Guillaume P., Clare Narrod and Linda Abbott

2011: Économie du printemps arabe: De la révolution à la transformation et la sécurité alimentaire

Perrihan Al-Riffai, Clemens Breisinger and Olivier Ecker

2011: Die wirtschaftlichen Ursachen des Arabischen Frühlings: Der Weg von der Revolution zu Transformation und Ernährungssicherheit

Perrihan Al-Riffai, Clemens Breisinger and Olivier Ecker

2011: Economics of the Arab awakening [in Arabic]: From revolution to transformation and food security

Perrihan Al-Riffai, Clemens Breisinger and Olivier Ecker

2011: Economics of the Arab awakening: From revolution to transformation and food security

Clemens Breisinger, Olivier Ecker and Perrihan Al-Riffai

2011: As Implicações dos Negócios de Terras em Grande Escala no Género

Julia A. Behrman, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Agnes Quisumbing

2011: Grandes transactions foncières et spécificités de genre

Julia A. Behrman, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Agnes Quisumbing

2011: Las implicaciones de género en las transacciones de tierras a gran escala

Julia A. Behrman, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Agnes Quisumbing

2011: The gender implications of large-scale land deals [In Arabic]

Julia A. Behrman, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Agnes Quisumbing

2011: The gender implications of large-scale land deals

Julia A. Behrman, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Agnes Quisumbing

2011: Urgent actions needed to prevent recurring food crises [In Chinese]

Shenggen Fan, Derek Headey and Maximo Torero

2011: Des actions urgentes s’imposent pour éviter les crises alimentaires récurrentes

Shenggen Fan, Derek Headey and Maximo Torero

2011: Urgent actions needed to prevent recurring food crises

Shenggen Fan, Maximo Torero and Derek Headey