Strategic plan of the IFPRI program on fragile and conflict-affected food systems (FCAS): 2026-2029

Humanitarian crises are becoming more frequent, protracted, and complex. Fragility, conflict, climate extremes, and displacement increasingly converge to undermine food security, disrupt livelihoods, and erode community resilience across dozens of countries. In these settings, humanitarian actors fa...

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Main Authors: Kosec, Katrina, Ambler, Kate, Abay, Kibrom, Carrillo, Lucia, Gilligan, Dan
Format: Internal Document
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2025
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/178944
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author Kosec, Katrina
Ambler, Kate
Abay, Kibrom
Carrillo, Lucia
Gilligan, Dan
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description Humanitarian crises are becoming more frequent, protracted, and complex. Fragility, conflict, climate extremes, and displacement increasingly converge to undermine food security, disrupt livelihoods, and erode community resilience across dozens of countries. In these settings, humanitarian actors face enormous pressure to deliver assistance in ways that are timely, inclusive, accountable, and aligned with the needs and priorities of affected populations. Further, governments demand evidence on what policies, programming, and other investments can support prevention, recovery, and resilience. In the current funding environment, global humanitarian financing is stretched thinner than ever, making improvements in effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of humanitarian actions all the more urgent. The IFPRI Program on Fragile and Conflict-Affected Food Systems (FCAS) responds to these challenges by generating practical, policy-relevant evidence on what works to support food security and resilience in FCAS, with a focus on who benefits, under what conditions, and at what cost. Through long-standing engagement in countries such as Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Sudan, Papua New Guinea, Somalia, and Yemen, the Program supports governments, UN agencies, International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs), and local NGOs to strengthen food systems in fragile contexts and improve outcomes for crisis-affected children, women, households, and communities. To make the Program’s rigorous research and evidence generation effective, it relies on deep partnership, local engagement, and a commitment to translating evidence into real-world change. Its work spans crisis anticipation and prevention; monitoring and crisis response; and recovery and resilience. It also considers two key cross-cutting areas: governance and accountability; and gender equality and inclusion. Across all of these areas, the Program advances locally-led approaches and elevates the voices and leadership of affected populations. IFPRI’s institutional strategy and its four-pronged approach to research and impact guide the Program; its work in FCAS aims to: (1) position major development challenges on policy agendas, (2) build scalable high-impact solutions, (3) strengthen governance and financing mechanisms, and (4) deploy tools, methods, and capabilities for research and policy impact. The Program supports humanitarian systems reform by generating new evidence on effective program design features; exploring means of strengthening governance and social inclusion; and supporting coordination across humanitarian, development, and peace actors. This Strategic Plan outlines how the Program operates, what it contributes, and how it sustains a unique role for IFPRI within the global humanitarian ecosystem.
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spelling CGSpace1789442026-01-21T15:58:13Z Strategic plan of the IFPRI program on fragile and conflict-affected food systems (FCAS): 2026-2029 Kosec, Katrina Ambler, Kate Abay, Kibrom Carrillo, Lucia Gilligan, Dan fragility conflicts food systems Humanitarian crises are becoming more frequent, protracted, and complex. Fragility, conflict, climate extremes, and displacement increasingly converge to undermine food security, disrupt livelihoods, and erode community resilience across dozens of countries. In these settings, humanitarian actors face enormous pressure to deliver assistance in ways that are timely, inclusive, accountable, and aligned with the needs and priorities of affected populations. Further, governments demand evidence on what policies, programming, and other investments can support prevention, recovery, and resilience. In the current funding environment, global humanitarian financing is stretched thinner than ever, making improvements in effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of humanitarian actions all the more urgent. The IFPRI Program on Fragile and Conflict-Affected Food Systems (FCAS) responds to these challenges by generating practical, policy-relevant evidence on what works to support food security and resilience in FCAS, with a focus on who benefits, under what conditions, and at what cost. Through long-standing engagement in countries such as Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Sudan, Papua New Guinea, Somalia, and Yemen, the Program supports governments, UN agencies, International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs), and local NGOs to strengthen food systems in fragile contexts and improve outcomes for crisis-affected children, women, households, and communities. To make the Program’s rigorous research and evidence generation effective, it relies on deep partnership, local engagement, and a commitment to translating evidence into real-world change. Its work spans crisis anticipation and prevention; monitoring and crisis response; and recovery and resilience. It also considers two key cross-cutting areas: governance and accountability; and gender equality and inclusion. Across all of these areas, the Program advances locally-led approaches and elevates the voices and leadership of affected populations. IFPRI’s institutional strategy and its four-pronged approach to research and impact guide the Program; its work in FCAS aims to: (1) position major development challenges on policy agendas, (2) build scalable high-impact solutions, (3) strengthen governance and financing mechanisms, and (4) deploy tools, methods, and capabilities for research and policy impact. The Program supports humanitarian systems reform by generating new evidence on effective program design features; exploring means of strengthening governance and social inclusion; and supporting coordination across humanitarian, development, and peace actors. This Strategic Plan outlines how the Program operates, what it contributes, and how it sustains a unique role for IFPRI within the global humanitarian ecosystem. 2025-12-17 2025-12-17T18:37:43Z 2025-12-17T18:37:43Z Internal Document https://hdl.handle.net/10568/178944 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/178779 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Kosec, Katrina; Ambler, Kate; Abay, Kibrom; Carrillo, Lucia; and Gilligan, Dan. 2025. Strategic plan of the IFPRI program on fragile and conflict-affected food systems (FCAS): 2026-2029. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/178944
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Abay, Kibrom
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Gilligan, Dan
Strategic plan of the IFPRI program on fragile and conflict-affected food systems (FCAS): 2026-2029
title Strategic plan of the IFPRI program on fragile and conflict-affected food systems (FCAS): 2026-2029
title_full Strategic plan of the IFPRI program on fragile and conflict-affected food systems (FCAS): 2026-2029
title_fullStr Strategic plan of the IFPRI program on fragile and conflict-affected food systems (FCAS): 2026-2029
title_full_unstemmed Strategic plan of the IFPRI program on fragile and conflict-affected food systems (FCAS): 2026-2029
title_short Strategic plan of the IFPRI program on fragile and conflict-affected food systems (FCAS): 2026-2029
title_sort strategic plan of the ifpri program on fragile and conflict affected food systems fcas 2026 2029
topic fragility
conflicts
food systems
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/178944
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