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  • Publication | 2025

Food Policy—Lessons and Priorities for a Changing World

Global Food and Nutrition Security

Highlights - LESSONS AND PRIORITIES FROM FOOD POLICY RESEARCH:

The Report analyses topic areas crucial to food policies for ending hunger and malnutrition. Each chapter provides both a historical review of the past 50 years and a current assessment of the challenges and opportunities anticipated up to 2050, featuring IFPRI’s past and present contributions to research, policy, and practice.

Section 1 examines the role of food policy research and agrifood system development in creating pathways for reducing poverty and malnutrition.

Section 2 focuses on sustainability and natural resources along with the tenure rules and markets that shape farming decisions and practices.

Section 3 explores key instruments used to support livelihoods at the farm level: agricultural extension services, crop breeding, and agricultural insurance.

Section 4 analyses how policies can reduce vulnerability and inequities, including the role of social protection, ways to address different forms of malnutrition, the impacts of conflict, and the importance of gender.

Section 5 examines macro-level factors related to governance, trade, public investment, and finance that determine whether and how policy change occurs.

The regional section of the Report examines the evolution of food policy and research in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, highlighting how key lessons and impacts can inform future research.