Indicators
Learn about current trends and link to full datasets on agricultural spending, research investment and capacity, productivity in agriculture, and projections for production and consumption.
Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators - ASTI
Strong, well-financed agricultural research and innovation systems are crucial for improving agricultural productivity and supporting agricultural transformation, especially in the context of ongoing global development challenges such as rapid population growth, climate change, and shifting diets. It is vital to be able to track the funding, functioning, and impact of these systems in order to improve efficiency, promote evidence-based decision-making, and demonstrate impact. Sound agricultural research investment decisions require access to up-to-date and credible qualitative and quantitative data and targeted analyses. ASTI works with national, regional, and international partners to collect time-series data on the funding, human resource capacity, and outputs of agricultural research in low- and middle-income countries. These data constitute a powerful resource for national and regional research managers, policymakers, donor organizations, and other stakeholders. The datasets and related analyses are available through a suite of tools on the ASTI website.
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Food Policy Research Capacity Indicators - FPRCI
Food policy research plays a crucial role in guiding agricultural transformation in developing countries. To achieve food security goals, countries need to strengthen their capacity to conduct food policy research. Strong local policy research institutions support evidence-based policymaking. Measuring national capacity for food policy research is important for identifying gaps and guiding the allocation of resources to fill those gaps.
“Food policy research capacity” is defined as any capacity related to socioeconomic or policy-related research in the areas of food, agriculture, nutrition, or natural resources. To measure this capacity, IFPRI has developed a set of indicators for the quantity and quality of policy research at the country level, based on data regarding PhD-level researchers and analysts (full-time equivalent) and relevant international publications. The full dataset covers 33 developing countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
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Projections of Food Production, Consumption, and Hunger - IMPACT
IMPACT is an integrated system of linked economic, climate, water, and crop models that helps us explore alternative future scenarios for food and agriculture at global, regional, and national scales. Covering 158 countries, IMPACT supports in-depth analysis of a variety of critical issues of interest to policymakers, including the relationship between diets, agricultural production, and climate change. The results of alternative scenarios exploring different population, income, policy, investment, and technological pathways are available online, along with more details on the model.
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Statistics on Public Expenditures for Economic Development - SPEED
The Statistics on Public Expenditures for Economic Development (SPEED) database tracks public expenditures for development, including for agriculture, to allow policymakers and analysts to examine policy priorities, track development goals, and explore the cost-effectiveness of public spending, either within a country or across countries within a region or at a similar level of development over a long timeframe. SPEED currently includes data for 166 countries in 10 public expenditure sectors from 1980 to 2017. User-friendly tools on the SPEED website enable the generation of accessible charts and geographic expenditure maps, in addition to direct data downloads.
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Agricultural Total Factor Productivity - TFP
Increasing the efficiency of agricultural production—getting more output from the same amount of resources—is a key element of food system transformation. Total factor productivity (TFP) is an indicator of how efficiently agricultural land, labor, capital, and materials (agricultural inputs) are used to produce a country’s agricultural output. It is calculated as the ratio of total agricultural output to total production inputs. Measures of land and labor productivity—partial factor productivity (PFP)—are calculated as the ratio of total output to total agricultural area (land productivity) and total output to the number of economically active persons in agriculture (labor productivity). TFP and PFP indicators contribute to the understanding of agricultural systems needed for policy and investment decisions. IFPRI calculates TFP and land and labor productivity for 132 developing countries and regions.