Papua New Guinea Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Policy Support Program – IFPRI INFO: Conversation – collaboration

IFPRI-PNG released its January 2026 quarterly newsletter, which features new research on the economywide and regional impacts of public investments and external shocks on agricultural production, income, consumption, and trade. The newsletter also includes a working paper examining the associations between women’s empowerment and child nutrition outcomes across Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, and Sri Lanka. […]

A new IFPRI survey of rural households in Papua New Guinea (PNG)—the most expansive consumption expenditure survey in more than a decade—shows the continuing predominance of subsistence agriculture and that rural diets remain reliant on inexpensive, starchy staple foods.

In November 2025, Mr. Rishabh Mukerjee from IFPRI presented to the Project Management Unit (PMU) of the Market for Village Farmers (MVF) project on statistical insights derived from MVF’s lead farmer report data. The presentation covered the share of participating farmers accessing seed capital through the MVF partnership grant, the timing of planting and harvesting […]

The Papua New Guinea (PNG) Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Policy Support Program (PNG-AFNP) is a 4- year program with a focus of providing data-driven analysis to inform economic growth and enhanced food … Learn More

IFPRI’s projects in Papua New Guinea is committed to producing high quality, evidence-based outputs that contribute to agriculture development, food security, nutrition, and poverty alleviation. In particular, … View All

Workshop for the PNG Vegetable Value Chain Survey: Sharing Capacity for Quantitative Value Chain Research in PNG

2023 PNG Rural Household Survey graphing tool

Modelling Development Goals for Papua New Guinea: Analysis of the Medium-Term Development Plan IV

Papua New Guinea Fresh Food Price Monitoring Tool

MONITORING THE AGRI-FOOD SYSTEM IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA

The Papua New Guinea Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Policy Program (PNG-AFNP) is monitoring the agri-food sector in PNG through a variety of data collection activities and joint work with local institutions.

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PNG-AFNP Quarterly Newsletter January 2026

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2023 Papua New Guinea Rural Household Survey: Insights on livelihoods and the agrifood system

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Discussion on Market for Village Farmer Report Statistics

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