From Farm to Table: Agrifood Systems and Trade Challenges in the Southern Cone
This publication provides guidance for transforming food trade in the Southern Cone to address social, nutritional, and environmental challenges and provide global leadership in sustainable food production.
From our blog series on underutilized crops: The promise of millets for improving nutrition and sustainability
Here, we focus on the promise of millets as an alternative to Asia’s enormous rice and wheat farming systems. Millets are a diverse group of small-grained dryland cereals that are generally climate-resilient and drought-tolerant crops with significant nutritional benefits.
The fallout from COVID-19, land grabs, and deforestation in Argentina’s Gran Chaco Forest region
Gran Chaco is among the most deforested areas on earth, much of that due to the expansion of farming and livestock ranching in recent decades, as well as growing climate impacts.
Building food security and resilience through intraregional trade in Latin America and the Caribbean
Intraregional agrifood trade in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) offers untapped opportunities for expansion. Comparative advantages in food production as well as variation in consumption patterns create a high degree of complementarity across many LAC countries.
The i-MPI aims to objectively measure and track the probability of individuals in a household permanently migrating to a different location within their country, based on a small subset of household indicators and conditions that highly correlate with the (latent) decision to migrate domestically.
The IFPRI Latin America and Caribbean Program works closely with local partners to address evidence gaps in food policy and spur action toward food systems transformation. Insights and guidance cultivated by the program help leaders in government, business, and civil society overcome challenges and pursue opportunities to build more resilient, healthy, equitable, and sustainable food systems.
CACCI Initiative
AVANZAR 2030: Innovation for Sustainable Agrifood Systems
Although complex and labor-intensive when done at scale, qualitative data holds critical insights for research supporting food system transformations. AI
Research in the LAC region concentrates on 3 focus countries and the following thematic areas, with work extending to more than two dozen others. Our research informs policymakers and stakeholders in these countries and provides lessons adaptable to other places and contexts.
