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IFPRI ForumIn commemoration of IFPRI's 30th anniversary in 2005, the Institute has just published a book featuring highlights of its research. Food Policy for the Poor: Expanding the Research Frontiers, edited by Joachim von Braun and Rajul Pandya-Lorch, compiles brief excerpts of IFPRI's most notable research over the past three decades, with full publications contained on an accompanying CD-ROM.
The compendium shows how the scope of research has evolved at IFPRI, as well as in the wider development community. It covers a host of topics that bear on food and nutrition security, including IFPRI's groundbreaking research on food trends and projections. It examines broad development policies and strategies and considers the field's increasing understanding of agricultural growth linkages. Research findings related to markets and trade, technologies for agricultural production, natural resource management, conflicts and natural disasters, subsidies and safety nets, gender roles, and health are all included. An introduction to each major topic sets the research into context to show how thinking has progressed over time.
Food Policy for the Poor also includes essays by four former IFPRI directors general--Dale E. Hathaway, John W. Mellor, Just Faaland, and Per Pinstrup-Andersen--who give their insights into current and future issues facing the Institute and the research community. An essay by Nurul Islam, research fellow emeritus, gives a bird's-eye, retrospective view of research at IFPRI, considering where the Institute might have done better, and current director general Joachim von Braun looks ahead to assess the factors that are likely to affect IFPRI's work in the coming decade.