With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.
Elodie Becquey is a Senior Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit, based in IFPRI’s West and Central Africa office in Senegal. She has over 15 years of research experience in diet, nutrition, and food security in Africa, including countries such as Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, and Tanzania.
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Since 1975, IFPRI’s research has been informing policies and development programs to improve food security, nutrition, and livelihoods around the world.
The Sudan Strategy Support Program (Sudan SSP) focuses on crucial research areas, including agricultural transformation, markets and trade, livelihoods and nutrition, resilience and developmental strategies, climate change, and the governance and political economy of food systems. The Sudan SSP crafts research-driven policy solutions, fosters policy change coalitions, and collaborates on the creation of innovative analytical tools with a broad network of local, regional, and international partners.
In the wake of violent conflict that emerged in Sudan in April 2023, the Sudan SSP has taken a leading role in mobilizing local and international efforts to provide concrete empirical evidence and thorough analyses concerning agricultural and food systems during periods of conflict. Integrating conflict analysis into its core themes, the program innovates and adapts analytical tools to be responsive and timely, offering critical insights into the impacts of such shocks on agricultural systems, food security, poverty, and social protection mechanisms.
The IFPRI-Sudan team is made up of globally recognized experts with extensive technical expertise in agriculture, food security, poverty, social protection, and gender. The team draws on a unique set of skills, with demonstrated analytical, technical, and interpersonal skills, and have decades of collective experience in conducting research and building capacity in Sudan and beyond.
A new study finds that if Sudan’s conflict continues through the end of 2025, the country could face catastrophic economic losses, widespread unemployment, and a dramatic rise in poverty, with women and rural populations hit hardest.
An op-ed by IFPRI’s Khalid Siddig and Rob Vos analyses Sudan’s ongoing severe food crisis: “After 14 months of escalating internal conflict, Sudan is now confronting its most severe food security crisis on record. The latest situation report, released on 27 June, reveals a grim picture: more than half the population of 47.2 million is […]
The Sudan conflict, now entering its third year, continues to devastate the country’s socioeconomic fabric. As of January 2025, more than 8.8 million people were internally displaced, and over 3.3 million had sought refuge in neighboring countries. Conservative reports estimate over 32,000 fatalities occurred between the start of the war on April 15, 2023, and […]
KSSP is a policy research, capacity strengthening and policy communication program with the main objectives to accelerate poverty reduction and to improve food security.
This project facilitates and promotes evidence-based dialogue and decision-making in support of agricultural development, food security, and economic growth in Malawi.
The project supports agricultural transformation and other development policy goals by enhancing national technical, institutional, and policy analysis capacities.
The Papua New Guinea Agriculture, Food, and Nutrition Policy Support Program (PNG-AFNP) is an initiative aligned with the Government of Papua New Guinea’s vision to revitalize and transform its agricultural sector to improve economic opportunities, livelihoods, and food security.
The Sudan Country Strategy Support Program (CSSP), with key team members based in Khartoum, can provide needed analytical support to the Government of Sudan, local and international partners.
