1. Katrina Kosec
International Food Policy Research Institute
Washington, DC
September 1, 2023
Key Findings and Recommendations
IFPRI’s 2023 Global Food Policy Report,
Rethinking Food Crisis Responses

2. 2023 GFPR: A timely contribution
 Calls for building resilience to crises, and for
more effective crisis responses, are not new –
but increasingly urgent
 Report provides cutting-edge analysis from
IFPRI and partners on recent crises and their
impacts on food security, nutrition, poverty, and
livelihoods
 Concrete strategies for resilience building and
crisis response
 Regionally differentiated approaches

3. 2023 GFPR: Key action areas
1. The Road to Resilience: Rethinking Responses to Food
Crises
2. Food Crisis Risk Monitoring: Early Warning for Early Action
3. Crisis Resilience: Humanitarian Response and Anticipatory
Action
4. Agrifood Value Chains: Building Resilient Food Systems
5. Social Protection: Adaptive Safety Nets for Crisis Recovery
6. Gender: Promoting Equality in Fragile and Conflict-
Affected Settings
7. Forced Migration: Fragility, Resilience, and Policy
Responses
(+ Six Regional Chapters)

4.  Evidence-based tools, policy models, and
approaches at hand
 Must align humanitarian aid with medium- and
long-term development strategies and with
resilience building, reflecting a humanitarian –
development – peace (HDP) nexus approach
 Cornerstones of effective responses:
 Effective governance and coordination
 Sufficient and flexible funding
Charting a new path to address
crises and promote resilience

5.  Effective governance is key to promoting resilience
building and timely crisis response
 Central to deploying and sustaining anticipatory action, humanitarian
assistance, social protection, and other programs
 Can promote market stability and innovation in the private sector
 Contributes to trust and social cohesion, thwarting future conflicts
 Coordination is critical
 International – national – local
 Public – private – civil society
 Global south – global north
 Policy forums can help build consensus
 Action must be grounded in evidence
Cornerstone #1: Effective governance and
coordination

6.  Needs for funding – in preparation for and after crises –
have increased
 Investment in resilience and anticipatory action can
reduce future costs of humanitarian response
 Funding options
 Repurposing US$600 billion in government agricultural supports
 Improved government regulation and incentives to shift private
investment toward crisis prevention and resilience
 Development banks can de-risk investment in resilience with blended
finance
Cornerstone #2: Sufficient and flexible funding
US$ 24 billion
US$ 52
Billion
Funding received in
2022
Funding requested in
2023
Rapid increase in humanitarian
funding needs
Source: Humanitarian Action, “At a Glance” (2022).
Note: Amounts of funding received and requested by UN Office
for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

7.  Early-warning, early-action (EWEA) systems
 Systems must better address the complexity of crises and
build resilience in advance
 Filling M&E gaps is critical
 Integrating existing systems can ensure that policymakers
receive clear, timely, and actionable warning signals
 Anticipatory action frameworks
 Require monitoring data that illuminate risks, exposure, and
vulnerability
 Can mitigate crises at lower cost and support longer-term
development efforts
 Robust governance and improved targeting raise efficacy
Policy recommendations (1)

8.  Resilient agrifood value chains
 Businesses should invest in improved and innovative tools
like climate-smart agriculture and new forms of insurance
 Governments should create a business environment that
fosters value chain innovations
 Data can help target assistance to crucial value chain nodes
 Responsive social protection systems
 Governments need highly adaptive, flexible, and inclusive
social protection systems
 Integrate “shock responsive” social protection with EWEA
and humanitarian aid for greater coherence
 Explore new ways to cover costs (e.g., climate or green
financing) and reduce costs (e.g., using mobile payments)
Policy recommendations (2)

9.  Empowering women amid crisis
 Improve the quality of gender-disaggregated data collected
before and during crises
 Creating explicit gender targets in crisis response and track
them
 Increase women’s political participation and amplify their
voice and agency in their communities
 Responding to forced migration
 Governments should invest in infrastructure and design
policies that expand the benefits of migration
 Innovative data collection can be used to better understand
and address the root causes of forced migration
Policy recommendations (3)

10. Chapter 1: Johan Swinnen and Katrina
Kosec
Chapter 2: Rob Vos, Arif Husain,
Friederike Greb, Peter Läderach, and
Brendan Rice
Chapter 3: Sikandra Kurdi and Sandra
Ruckstuhl
Chapter 4: Bart Minten, Ben Belton, and
Thomas Reardon
Chapter 5: Kalle Hirvonen
Chapter 6: Hazel Malapit and Lynn
Brown
Chapter 7: Manuel Hernandez, Olivier
Ecker, Peter Läderach, and Jean-
François Maystadt
Thanks to our authors
Africa: Samuel Benin, Wim Marivoet,
Harriet Mawia, and John Ulimwengu
Middle East and North Africa: Kibrom
Abay, Xinshen Diao, David Laborde, and
Mariam Raouf
Central Asia: Kamiljon Akramov
South Asia: Anjani Kumar and Shahidur
Rashid
East and Southeast Asia: Kevin Chen,
Yunyi Zhou, and Rui Mao
Latin America and the Caribbean:
Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla, and Valeria Piñeiro

11. www.cgiar.org
New CGIAR research initiative: Fragility, Conflict, and
Migration (FCM)
• IFPRI's 2023 Global Food
Policy Report outlines
existing evidence and
needed research for
effective crisis response
• The CGIAR Research
Initiative on Fragility,
Conflict, and Migration
(FCM) takes up this
research agenda, with
partners
Build strong relationships
with partners in FCAS
Co-develop demand-
driven research
Support decision-making
for stakeholder policies
and programming
https://www.cgiar.org/initiative/fragility-conflict-and-migration/
Lead: Katrina Kosec; Co-leads: Peter Laderach & Sandra Ruckstuhl

12. www.cgiar.org
Fragility, Conflict, and Migration (FCM) initiative
work packages and geographies
LEARNING &
PARTNER
DECISION-
SUPPORT
Where we work
https://www.cgiar.org/initiative/fragility-conflict-and-migration/
Lead: Katrina Kosec; Co-leads: Peter Laderach & Sandra Ruckstuhl

13. Thank you for your attention