Search Knowledge for policy

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is expected to grow modestly in 2024, returning to the low growth that prevailed in the decade before the pandemic. In addition to examining the macroeconomic outlook...

This report from the Tata–Cornell Institute at Cornell University focuses on food systems and nutrition in South Asia. The progress made in reducing the prevalence of hunger in the fourteen years leading to 2019...

Since the discovery of aflatoxins in the 1960s, knowledge in the mycotoxin research field has increased dramatically. Hundreds of review articles have been published summarizing many different aspects...

Numerous structural vulnerabilities put developing regions at a disadvantage as they confront the prospect of increasingly frequent extreme shocks. Typical of these regions, South Asia had...

Highlights on food security: In domestic currency, food inflation in the region is likely to remain elevated as a result of the continuing pressures on MENA economies’ currencies. In Egypt, year-on-year food...

This is a joint IFPRI-WFP study on the drivers, profile, and risks of irregular migration in the West Africa context. By taking a route-based approach to irregular migration in West Africa, the study examined...

North Africa (NA) is supposed to lower emissions in its agriculture to honor climate action commitments and to impulse sustainable development across Africa. Agriculture in North Africa...

Most countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are struggling to reduce poverty and vulnerability—COVID-19 and now Russia's invasion of Ukraine are making the task even...

Highlights: Inflationary pressure has continued to mount since the devaluation, as the country's consumption mainly relies on imports. Russia's invasion of Ukraine contributed to additional pressure in 2022...

An assessment was carried out by REACH Initiative on behalf of the World Food Programme (WFP) due to the lack of clear evidence-based information on climate change in Libya which...