IFPRI’s 2021 Annual Report presents highlights from our research work around the world. Cutting-edge research on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and related policies, and on our strategic research areas—climate resilience and sustainability, healthy diets and nutrition, inclusive and efficient food systems, institutions and governance, and rural transformation, as well as cross-cutting work on gender—is helping to inform policies and programs to end hunger and malnutrition.
- Domestic prices and foreign exchange. Value chain research found that coffee exporters in Ethiopia are willing to offer high prices for coffee locally, even if they incur losses, in order to access scarce foreign exchange. These high wholesale prices benefit coffee farmers.
- To understand impacts of the pandemic on value chains, researchers in Ethiopia assessed changes in the farm and consumer prices for major vegetables, finding large but heterogeneous price
changes and overall resilience of the value chains.