IFPRI Director General, Shenggen Fan, announced Monday that Dr.

Researchers, practitioners, donors, and government officials gathered in Kampala Wednesday, June 27, for a workshop to showcase IFPRI’s ongoing research in Uganda and to facilitate discussions about current topics in agriculture and nutrition.

AGRODEP has published the first paper in its new Working Paper series. 

Recent research has revealed that the most crucial development in a child’s brain takes place in the first three years of its life.

A report released by the United Nations Committee fo

The world’s population is growing, but its resources, including land and water, are finite.

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been the subject of buzz in the international development community as supporters are rallying funds, intellect, and awareness around the country’s intent to experience the 

The world’s population is growing and its climate is changing—at the same time, its land and water resources are running out.

The CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets, which is led by IFPRI, launched its website today.

Elinor Ostrom’s death on 12 June, just days before the Rio+20 conference, is an enormous loss. But her life’s work offers many lessons for the deliberations, decisions and path to progress at and after Rio.

The planet’s most precious—and endangered—resources are under our feet.

Food insecurity poses a daunting challenge to the G20’s goals of global economic growth and development.

With a growing global population and rising incomes, global collaboration is urgently needed to ensure sustainable agricultural growth and food security.

Some experts believed that by 2010, up to 50 million “environmental refugees” would flee their lands due to the dramatically negative effects of climate change.

One of the pillars of discussion at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) will be the green economy—an economy that pursues growth while promoting sustainable development through efficient use of resources, in particula

A Spanish-language version of the popular CGIAR Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi) sourcebook is now available.

The second International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) and IFPRI Impact Evaluation Seminar was webcast live on June 6. Erica Field of Duke University spoke about lessons from microfinance on debt structure, entrepreneurship, and risk.

Why do some people fall into the trap of chronic poverty and others are able to escape it? IFPRI convened a panel of experts yesterday to shed some light on factors that lead to chronic

By 2050, the world’s population will reach nine billion. At the same time, climate change could decrease crop yields by 20 to 30 percent.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries has grown in importance in recent years, with increasing attention being paid to the potential impacts on agricultural development and food security for the developing world.