Oliver Kiptoo Kirui – The Conversation

Finding a regular, healthy meal is a hard task for millions. Joe Nkadaani/Wikimedia Commons

March 8, 2026

Hunger crisis is set to get worse in west and central Africa – why and what to do about it

Oliver Kiptoo Kirui, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Chibuzo Henrietta Nwagboso, CGIAR

Millions of people in west Africa and the Sahel region face starvation.

A man feeds his livestock at a market in Sudan. The livestock industry is Sudan’s largest income earner after gold. Ebrahim Hamid/AFP via Getty Images

February 18, 2026

Sudan: how warring factions gained influence in the country’s food system – and what it means for the current conflict

Danielle Resnick, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) ; Hala M.E. Abushama, CGIAR; Khalid Siddig, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) , and Oliver Kiptoo Kirui, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Armed actors in fragile contexts typically engage in sectors where they can quickly extract profits.

A makeshift camp for displaced people in eastern Sudan in July 2024. AFP via Getty Images

August 30, 2024

Sudan is the world’s worst modern war – what has happened and what it’ll take to rebuild

Kagure Gacheche, The Conversation

Sudan is the site of one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, with around 25 million people in need of urgent assistance.

Smoke rises above a neighbourhood in the Sudanese city of Omdurman. Shutterstock/Abd Almohimen Sayed

June 12, 2024

Sudan food emergency: local researcher unpacks scale of the disaster and what action is needed

Oliver Kiptoo Kirui, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Rural households are especially hard hit by food shortages due to disrupted farming, limited access to markets and soaring food prices.

Maize grown in a small-scale farm. Alexander Joe/AFP via Getty Images

May 25, 2022

Kenya’s push for a purely formal seed system could be bad for farmers

Oliver Kiptoo Kirui, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

If small-scale farmers can’t afford to grow certified seeds – or can’t find them – food shortages would follow.

Widespread protests have followed changes in the subsidised price of Baladi bread, a traditional Sudanese flatbread. Photo by MUJAHED SHARAF AL-DEEN SATI/AFP via Getty Images

April 13, 2022

Russia‑Ukraine conflict is driving up wheat prices: this could fuel instability in Sudan

Clemens Breisinger, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) ; David Laborde Debucquet, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) ; Joseph Glauber, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) ; Oliver Kiptoo Kirui, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) , and Paul Dorosh, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Wheat and bread play a central role for food security and political stability in Sudan.

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