poverty

2025 Global Food Policy Report | Food Policy: Lessons and Priorities for a Changing World

Over the last 50 years, the world’s food systems have evolved tremendously amid major economic, environmental, and social changes. Throughout this period, policy research has played a critical role in providing evidence and analysis to inform decision-... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

Applying the Women’s Empowerment Metric in National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) to build gender equity

Governments’ adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in 1995—which advanced a set of common principles on gender equality—elevated women’s empowerment in policy as an end in itself, not just as a means to achieving other development... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

Applying the Women’s Empowerment Metric in National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) to build gender equity

WEMNS was developed by IFPRI and partners as a solution to this data gap and is a streamlined tool intended for use in large-scale, multitopic surveys in both rural and urban areas and was designed to be added to existing surveys. Source: IFPRI Africa Regional Office (AFR)

The world is nowhere near the goal of zero hunger by 2030 amid uncertain global development financing. What now?

In the wake of a series of recent crises that drove up global hunger and food insecurity, the world remains far off track in meeting Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2)—ending hunger and malnutrition by 2030. Now, in a chaotic global environment of s... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

Egypt’s experience bridging cash transfers and an economic inclusion program for sustainable social protection

In 186 countries worldwide, cash transfer programs are the cornerstone of social protection, outnumbering social security or pension plans. These offer critical financial lifelines to vulnerable households, aiming to alleviate poverty by providing stea... Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office