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    VC4D: Value Chain for Development
    We live in a fast changing world with fast changing trends: urbanization, globalization, industrialization, and more, all of which have a profound impact on the way food moves from field to fork along the agricultural value chain. Understanding ...
  • News
    Playing games to save water
    World Water Day 2013 begins the International Year of Water Cooperation. Today, we highlight an innovative research project that helps strengthen cooperation to protect and conserve this precious natural resource. Recently, villagers in ...
  • News
    Onions Bring Tears to the Indian Government
    As a staple food in India, onions are relied upon by the wealthy, the poor, and everyone in-between. Skyrocketing onion prices mean a drastic cut in the quality of life for some, and hunger for many. In recent months, onion prices in the ...
  • News
    New South Asia research program promotes regional cooperation to fight undernutrition
    Despite rapid economic growth in South Asia, its rates of child undernutrition remain the highest in the world, with nearly half of children stunted or underweight. Progress to reduce these rates is extremely slow. Ironically, most people in the ...
  • News
    Name-Brand Products: Boon or Bust for Farmers and Consumers?
    Should I buy packaged goods, or bulk? Generic or name brand? The questions long-faced by consumers at pharmacies and grocery stores are now being asked at farmers’ markets in the developing world as wholesalers and merchants try to profit with ...
  • News
    Large-Scale Nutrition Research Project Launched on World Food Day
    Undernutrition is the underlying cause of death for 2.6 million pre-school children every year—one-third of all child deaths in that age group. For those who survive, poor nutrition undermines school performance and later earning capacity. And ...
  • Media Briefing
    Advancing Agricultural Practice Portal Launched
    IFPRI, in partnership with the e-Extension Centre of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, launched the Advancing Agricultural Practice portal which aims to improve agricultural productivity and farm income for smallholder farmers across India ...
  • Press Release
    New Knowledge Management Portal Offers Data to Improve Indian Farmers’ Practices
    Chennai, Tamil Nadu– The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), in partnership with the e-Extension Centre of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), launched the Advancing Agricultural Practice portal ...
  • Resource
    DELNET Developing Library Network
    DELNET is an organisation promoting resource sharing among libraries through the development of a network of libraries.
  • Resource
    India - Agricultural Statistics
    The Directorate of Economics and Statistics (DES), an attached office of the Department of Agriculture and Cooperation of the Ministry of Agriculture of India, collects, disseminates and publishes statistics on diverse facets of agriculture and ...
  • News
    The Enigma of Nutrition in India
    Though India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world, many adults and children continue to be undernourished. An IFPRI paper co-authored by Derek Headey, Alice Chiu, and Suneetha Kadiyala, examines how agriculture and income growth ...
  • News
    Beyond Food
    “The story of why hunger persists in India is long, sometimes depressing, and full of paradoxes, the central one of course being the fact that the country actually has a booming economy and robust food stocks,” says IFPRI research fellow ...
  • News
    IFPRI-World Bank Gender and Governance Book
    Agricultural development and poverty reduction depend on the effective delivery of public services to farmers and the rural poor. However, the efficient and regular delivery of public services to the poor in rural areas is hindered by ...
  • News
    India State Hunger Index May Improve with Food Security Act
    “A large proportion of the under nutrition in South Asia begins well before children are born, so it relates to gender constraints and issues related to women’s education to adolescent health to early marriage,” explains Purnima Menon, a research ...
  • Event
    Regional Dialogue on "Renewed Policy Action for the Poorest and Hungry in South Asia"
    Supported by Asian Development Bank (ADB) and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) As part of its continuing efforts to facilitate international consultation on the needed actions to address this challenge, the ...
  • Event
    The Political Economy of Agricultural Policy Reform in India
    Abstract The seminar will analyze the political economy of two fields of agricultural policy in India: fertilizer supply and electricity supply for groundwater irrigation. Subsidizing fertilizer and electricity supply has been an important ...
  • Resource
    Developing Library Network (DELNET)
    Network of libraries for resource sharing.
  • Press Release
    India Faces Urgent Hunger Situation
    New Delhi—According to the first-ever India State Hunger Index, Madhya Pradesh has the most severe level of hunger in the country, followed by Jharkhand and Bihar. Punjab and Kerala scored the best on the Index Released today by the ...
  • Press Release
    South Asian Women Farmers Reap Few Benefits, Despite their Significant Contributions to Agriculture
    New Delhi—While women comprise nearly 40 percent of South Asia’s agricultural workforce, their low social status limits them from fully reaping the benefits of their efforts. Overcoming this challenge is the focus of the two-day ...
  • News
    Agricultural and Economic Development Strategies and the Transformation of China and India
     by Joachim von Braun, Ashok Gulati, and Shenggen FanWhat can the world learn from the process of economic reform in China and India? Does the sequencing of reforms matter? What lessons do the experiences of in these countries offer for ...
  • News
    India: Enabling rural folk to overcome poverty by Lennart Bage
    Targeting rural poverty, particularly among Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes, and women, will better enable India to reach its full development potential in a sustainable manner. http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/05/16/fea03.htm