In the context of increasing vulnerability to climate change for people dependent on natural resources for their livelihoods, the International Food Policy Research Institute and partner organizations in Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, and Bangladesh undertook a project broadly aiming to create knowledge

In the wake of the food crises of the early 1970s and the resulting World Food Conference of 1974, a group of innovators realized that food security depends not only on crop production, but also on the policies that affect food systems, from farm to table.

Using a participatory rural appraisal approach, a series of qualitative studies were conducted in four countries facing negative impacts of climate change—Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya and Mali—in order to determine men’s and women’s perceptions of climate change, adaptive approaches, and the degre

Can more vigorous political competition significantly raise rural land values, or contribute to more robust land rental markets?

Public Private Partnerships for irrigation and otherdevelopment is becoming a widely accepted model forfinancing future agricultural and overall economic development and was part of the ‘toolkit’ of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development that took place in Addis Ababa in