Launch of IFPRI's 2025 Global Food Policy Report

28 May 2025. Despite meaningful progress over the last half-century, conflict, climate change, rising inequality, and geopolitical tensions remain major challenges to reducing poverty, hunger, and malnutrition. As we approach 2050, policy research and analysis will be essential to help build sustainable healthy food systems in this changing world.

Thematic presentations from IFPRI’s leading researchers explored the role of evidence in shaping policies over the past 50 years, as well as the potential for research to address emerging challenges and opportunities.

A keynote lecture by Michael Kremer, Chair of the Innovation Commission and joint winner of the 2019 Economics Nobel Prize, addressed innovations for the future. Following these remarks, a distinguished panel of experts will discuss priorities for policy research in the decades to come.

 

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• Welcome Remarks Ismahane Elouafi, Executive Managing Director, CGIAR
• Unveiling of IFPRI’s flagship Global Food Policy Report Johan Swinnen, Director General, IFPRI
• Christopher B. Barrett, Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Professor of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University (video message)

Thematic GFPR presentations

• Agrifood System Transformation, Structural Change and Development: James Thurlow, Director, Foresight and Policy Modeling (FPM) Unit, IFPRI
• Agrifood Trade: Changing Perspectives and Challenges: Ruth Hill, Director of Markets, Trade and Institutions (MTI) Unit, IFPRI
• From global to regional and national: How policy research can shape the future of nations: Steven Were Omamo, Director, Development Strategies and Governance (DSG) Unit and Director for Africa, IFPRI
• From evidence to action: Informing policy to tackle poverty and gender inequities: Shalini Roy, Senior Research Fellow, Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion (PGI) Unit, IFPRI and Agnes Quisumbing, Senior Research Fellow, Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion (PGI) Unit, IFPRI
• Policies and programs to tackle the global malnutrition challenge: Stuart Gillespie, Nonresident Senior Fellow, IFPRI and Deanna Olney, Director, Nutrition, Diets, and Health (NDH), IFPRI
• Enabling environments for scaling innovations in agriculture, food systems and nutrition: David Spielman, Director, Innovation Policy and Scaling (IPS) Unit, IFPRI

Keynote Address and Strategy Discussion: A Focus on Innovations for the Future 

• Michael Kremer, Professor in Economics; Director of Development Innovation Lab; and Faculty Director, Development Economics Center, University of Chicago; and 2019 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences

Forward Looking Panel Discussion on Food Policy Research Priorities

• Moderator: Purnima Menon, Senior Director, Food and Nutrition Policy; Acting Senior Director, Transformation Strategy, IFPRI
• Alice Ruhweza, President, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
• Ramesh Chand, Member, National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog)
• Joan Matji, Global Director, Child Nutrition and Development, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
• Ruben Echeverria, Senior Advisor, Agriculture Development, Gates Foundation
• Santiago Alba-Corral, Vice-President, Programs and Partnerships, International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada
• Marianne Grosclaude, Practice Manager, Agriculture and Food Global Practice, World Bank
• Moderator Charlotte Hebebrand, Director of Communications and Public Affairs, IFPRI

Resource

Swinnen, Johan; and Barrett, Christopher B. (Eds.). 2025. Global food policy report 2025: Food policy: Lessons and priorities for a changing world. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. 584 p.

As a special edition marking the Institute’s 50th anniversary, the 2025 Global Food Policy Report examines the evolution and impact of food policy research and assesses how it can better equip policymakers to meet future challenges and opportunities. 

The report’s thematic and regional chapters, written by leading IFPRI researchers and colleagues, explore the broad range of issues and showcase research related to food systems, from tenure and agriculture extension to social protection, gender, and nutrition to conflict, political economy, and agricultural innovation, and more. 

As we approach 2050, policy research and analysis will be essential to help end poverty and malnutrition by building sustainable healthy food systems.