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Going hungry more often: Food prices and the poor
Domitila Revilla Romero, 56, lives in a shantytown on the outskirts of Lima and works as a laundress to help support her three children, her nephew, and her daughter-in-law, all of whom earn increasingly precarious livings.
Interview with R. K. Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
The March 2008 issue of IFPRI Forum features an interview with R.
Toward a New Global Governance System for Agriculture, Food, and Nutrition
Commentary
Toward a New Global Governance System for Agriculture, Food, and Nutrition
What Are the Options?
What Goes Down Must Come Up: Global Food Prices Reach New Heights
Prices are surging for food commodities worldwide, posing a tough policy challenge for developing countries—can they protect poor consumers without squelching new opportunities for farmers?
Strength in numbers
Poor people are often at great risk of losing the few assets they have when faced with an unexpected event, such as the death of a household member.
"If concentrated in a single nation, the world's poorest people--the ultra poor--would comprise the world’s seventh most populous country."
Press Release, November 6, 2007
The World’s Poorest People Not Being Reached: New Study Examines Plight of Poor Living on Less than 50 Cents a Day
Impacts of a ‘Food for Education’ Program in Bangladesh
Standing Panel on Impact Assessment: Science Council Brief Number 3
How Will Agriculture Adapt to a Shifting Climate?
Global climate change poses particular risks to poor farmers in developing countries, but there are steps that farmers, policymakers, and researchers can take to minimize losses and adapt to climate change.
ECOGENLit - Economics Literature on Plant and Livestock Genetic Resources
On October 23-25, 2003, Bioversity International convened a workshop for the System-wide Genetic Resources Programme (SGRP) of the CGIAR about “Managing Agricultural Biodiversity for Sustain
Countries with a History of Conflict Rank Poorly on New Global Hunger Index
Washington, DC—According to the Global Hunger Index, developed by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), of the 12 countries with the highest levels of hunger, nine were affected by civil wars or violent conflicts.
Agricultural and Economic Development Strategies and the Transformation of China and India
What can the world learn from the process of economic reform in China and India? Does the sequencing of reforms matter?
Agriculture, Food Security, Nutrition and the Millennium Development Goals
In 2000, the member states of the United Nations committed themselves to creating a "more peaceful, prosperous and just world," to "free[ing] our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty," to ma