Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

The world continues to grapple with acute hunger, malnutrition, poverty, income inequality, and other crises. In 2023, approximately 864 million people experienced severe food insecurity...

Humanitarian agencies around the world face a never-ending race against time to save lives in places where conflicts, extreme weather, and other shocks lead to collapsing...

Key Highlights: Rising Hunger: Hunger affected over 3.0 percent of households in late 2024, and was highest in Kachin (6.5 percent), Kayah (6.3 percent)...

In this new SciDev.Net podcast episode, Dr. Steven Omamo, Director of IFPRI’s Development Strategies and Governance Unit and Director for Africa discusses the findings of the 2025 Global Food...

This study investigates the living income gap among coffee smallholders in central Kenya. It uses detailed survey data collected from coffee farmers organized in cooperatives...

Africa’s population is the youngest of any region, affording the continent an adequate workforce to drive economic and social transformation.

A new study by researchers at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) finds that if Sudan’s conflict continues through the end of 2025, the country could face...

Financial systems are modernizing worldwide, with digital apps, online payments, and rapid loan processing increasingly the norm.

This blog post is part of a special monthly series entitled “Making a Difference,” documenting the impact of IFPRI's projects and initiatives.

Food systems transformation cannot happen without expanding, changing, and reimagining how it is financed.