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2011 Global Hunger Index now available The Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that worldwide progress in reducing hunger remains slow. The 2009 global GHI has fallen by only one quarter from the 1990 GHI. Southeast Asia, the Near East and North ...

2011 Global Hunger Index now available Embeddable Map (Put this map on your website) As the world approaches the 2015 deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which include a goal of reducing the proportion of ...

A cinq ans de la date butoir fixée pour atteindre les Objectifs du millénaire pour le développement (OMD), parmi lesquels celui de réduire de moitié la proportion de la population qui souffre de la faim, le rapport « L’indice de la faim dans le ...

Mentre il mondo si avvicina alla scadenza fi ssata nel 2015 per il raggiungimento degli Obiettivi di Sviluppo del Millennio (MDG, Millennium Development Goals) – tra i quali rientra il dimezzamento della percentuale di persone che soffrono la ...

The 2011 Global Hunger Index (GHI) is calculated for 122 developing countries and countries in transition for which data on the three components of hunger are available. This year’s GHI reflects data from 2004 to 2009—the most recent ...

Download full brief The 2011 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report—the sixth in an annual series—presents a multidimensional measure of global, regional, and national hunger. It shows that although the world has made some progress in reducing hunger, ...

Download full report (PDF 5.0M) IFPRI's flagship report examines the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2012. By putting into perspective the year's food policy successes and disappointments, it suggests how to move forward ...

Download Full Report The 2012 GHI report focuses particularly on the issue of how to ensure sustainable food security under conditions of water, land, and energy stress. Demographic changes, rising incomes and associated consumption patterns, and ...

作为国际食物政策研究所（IFPRI）的旗舰报告，本报告回顾了2012年主要的粮食政策问题、发展动态以及决策。通过正确地看待这一年粮食政策取得的成功和遭遇的挫折，报告就如何推进改善贫困人口粮食形势的政策提出了建议。 报告汇聚了IFPRI研究人员和其他主要粮食政策专家的专业知识和经验，探讨了以下几个关键问题： 哪些地方的农业生产力正在增长？原因何在？其增长对于全球粮食供应有什么意义？ 可持续发展已进行到了什么程度？绿色经济还有多远？ 需要做出哪些努力才能让性别考虑成为农业和农村发展中不可缺 ...

The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) focuses its efforts in rural development primarily in fragile high-mountain and coastal areas with vulnerable and marginalized populations. The beneficiaries are often cut off from government service ...

Most people would say that agriculture is for growing food, and on one level, they are right. Agricultural performance, after all, is measured in terms of production and productivity. The point of agriculture doesn’t stop there, however. At a ...

Alexander J. Stein has joined the Director General’s Office in late 2011 as research coordinator. He is an agricultural economist with a background both in development economics and in health economics. So far he mainly worked on food and ...

The performance of the International Food Policy Research Institute’s (IFPRI’s) research program that focuses on water resource issues is reviewed for the period 1994–2010 around the three themes that constitute the program: global modeling, ...

Téléchargez texte complet - 6.1M Le monde doit accélérer ses progrès dans la réduction de la pauvreté et de la faim. Aujourd’hui, une personne sur six à travers le monde ne mange pas à sa faim et souffre de malnutrition – une proportion ...

Regreening entails increasing the number of both on-farm trees and, in some countries, off-farm trees through natural forest management and for the protection and management of natural regeneration on degraded land. There is an urgent need to ...

Carmen Ruiz is a Senior Program Analyst for the Director General’s Office (DGO) of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). In this capacity, she provides donor stewardship, communicates IFPRI’s research results to relevant ...

This case study explores the half century of successful efforts of the international wheat stem and leaf rust resistance programs within the context of the international agricultural research system. The study uses a historical perspective to ...

Community-based financial organizations (CBFOs) are user-owned and -operated groups that provide mainly saving and lending services but may also offer other financial services such as insurance. These independent organizations are based in local ...

A griculture is an inherently risky economic activity. A large array of uncontrollable elements can affect output production and prices, resulting in highly variable economic returns to farm households. In developing countries, farmers also lack ...

Les récentes tendances des cours des denrées alimentaires – niveaux plus élevés et plus grande volatilité – reflètent les prédictions d’un certain nombre d’experts. Compte tenu de la complexité de l’écheveau des facteurs influençant la sécurité ...

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The 2007/08 international food price crisis caused hardship on a number of fronts. The steep rise in food prices led to economic difficulties for the poor and generated political turmoil in many countries. The crisis could also result in ...

As the population continues to grow and natural resources become scarcer, the need to shift toward an environmentally responsible, socially accountable, more equitable, and “greener” economy has become increasingly apparent. Despite differing ...

Conflicts have existed for generations worldwide. In sub-Saharan Africa, conflicts occur for various reasons, including inter-tribal or clanist tensions, resource disputes, and externally instigated wars. These conflicts may persist unabated for ...

2008-2009 Annual Report Are food-security risks for poor people on the rise? Recent food-price and economic shocks have further jeopardized the food security of developing countries and poor people, pushing the estimated number of undernourished ...

Strong upward trends and increased variability in global food prices during the past two years have led to concern that hunger and poverty will increase across the world. At the same time, rising food prices provide an incentive and opportunity ...

Countries can gauge their economic performance by looking at gross domestic product, but to assess their progress on fighting hunger, they must usually consider a multitude of indicators. To provide a simple way of ranking countries and ...

In 2000, the world’s leaders set a target of halving the percentage of hungry people between 1990 and 2015. This rather modest target constitutes part of the first Millennium Development Goal, which also calls for halving the proportion of people ...

Learning from successes in agricultural development is now more urgent than ever. Progress in feeding the world’s billions has slowed, while the challenge of meeting future food needs remains enormous and is subject to new uncertainties in the ...

The global food policy landscape is changing rapidly. Volatile food prices are threatening the food and nutrition security of the poor and vulnerable. Rising incomes, urbanization, and changing dietary preferences are presenting both challenges ...

Working with many longstanding partners, including Irish Aid, Concern Worldwide, and others, IFPRI’s food policy research has contributed to reducing poverty and improving food security for the world’s poor. This agricultural research is a good ...

In the wake of the food crises of the early 1970s and the resulting World Food Conference of 1974, a group of innovators realized that food security depends not only on crop production, but also on the policies that affect food systems, from farm ...

In the wake of the food crises of the early 1970s and the resulting World Food Conference of 1974, it became clear that food security depends not only on crop production, but also on the policies that affect food systems—from farm to table. This ...

In the wake of the food crises of the early 1970s and the resulting World Food Conference of 1974, a group of innovators realized that food security depends not only on crop production, but also on the policies that affect food systems, from farm ...

China has used hybrid rice technology to help feed more than 20 percent of the world’s population using just 10 percent of the world’s total arable land. Hybrid rice allowed for a 14 percent reduction in total rice-growing acreage since 1978, ...

In 2008, a year in which the global population—particularly the world’s poor—was confronted by both the financial and food-price crises, agricultural systems faced changes that led to market disruptions, reduced growth, mass protests, and a ...

Read the 2010 Annual Report Online In 2010, rising food prices and extreme events such as earthquakes, fires, droughts, and floods created new stresses on the world food system and generated fresh concern about the potential for a reprise of the ...

As incomes rise and populations continue to grow and move from rural into urban areas, diets shift, placing additional pressure on the global food system. In the age of climate uncertainty, crop yields are becoming increasingly erratic, resulting ...

December 2009 Read Online Download full text (100K) Download 4-page summary (1.3M) Table of Contents Sick and Tired: Climbing Out of the Health-Poverty Trap Commentary: The Costs of a Pandemic by ...

The current global recession is leading to millions of job losses around the world, pushing some people deeper into poverty and nudging others into poverty for the first time. How can governments and others in developing countries create good ...

The IFPRI 2020 Conference on “Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition and Health” was held in New Delhi, India, February 10–12, 2011, and attracted more than 900 attendees. Conference activities included 12 plenary sessions, 15 parallel ...

This report assesses the impact of the International Food Policy Research Institute’s (IFPRI) Global Research Program on Priorities for Public Investment in Agriculture and Rural Areas (“GRP-3”). Initiated in 1998, the stated objectives of the ...

Assessing impacts of public investments has long captured the interest and attention of the development community. This paper presents the evolution of different methods and approaches used for ex ante appraisal, monitoring, project evaluation, ...

Resumen El Índice Global del Hambre (GHI) de este año muestra que el hambre global ha disminuido desde 1990 —pero no en forma dramática—y permanece en un nivel que se puede considerar como “serio”. Los puntajes del GHI varían ampliamente entre ...

Embeddable Map (Put this map on your website) El Índice Global del Hambre (GHI) muestra que el progreso mundial en la reducción del hambre sigue siendo lento. El GHI global de 2009 ha caído apenas en una cuarta parte con respecto al de 1990. ...

La plupart des ménages ruraux n’ont pas accès à des financements fiables et abordables pour les activités agricoles et autres assurant leur subsistance. De nombreux petits exploitants vivent dans des zones reculées où les services bancaires aux ...

Everywhere in the world, small agricultural producers are entrepreneurs, traders, investors, and consumers, all rolled into one. In all these roles, small agricultural households constantly seek to use available financial instruments to improve ...

Read Online Download full text (4.2MB) Table of Contents IN BRIEF Rebuilding Agriculture in the DRC A Potato of a Different Color Gathering Evidence for Policy Reforms in Pakistan China Comes Calling Do Women Think Differently about GM ...

Like other West African cotton producers, Burkina Faso’s cotton strategy has traditionally involved substantial government intervention in both input and output markets. Despite some notable successes, this state-led strategy became widely ...

Klaus von Grebmer, a citizen of Switzerland, is a Senior Research Fellow and Strategic Advisor in the Director General's Office. Prior to joining DGO, he was director of IFPRI's Communications Division. More about Klaus von Grebmer in IFPRI ...

In 2012, the world food system continued to be in a vulnerable position. As the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals approaches, even the modest goal of halving the proportion of people suffering from hunger is not on track. A ...

Vertical funds are multistakeholder global programs that provide earmarked funding for specified purposes. This brief presents a series of lessons learned from vertical fund experiences that are applicable to scaling up in agriculture and rural ...

Agriculture and rural development are essential components of economic growth and the battle against poverty, hunger, and malnutrition worldwide. In the developing world, investment in agriculture was much neglected in recent decades by ...

IFPRI 2020 Vision International Conference 10–12 February 201, New Delhi, India Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition and Health: IFPRI 2020 conference at a glance View more presentations from International Food Policy Research ...

Over the past three years, payment strategies for emerging markets have been revolutionized by the advent of a simple cell-phone-based payment service in Kenya called M-PESA (“M” for “mobile” and “pesa” for “money”). From a small-scale pilot ...

Highlights from the project "Millions Fed: Proven Successes in Agricultural Development Millions fed View more presentations from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Local- and community-driven development (LCDD) has emerged over the past 20 years in response to the advent of integrated rural development and difficulties with centralized service delivery. LCDD approaches generally have better outcome ratings ...

Nurul Islam of Bangladesh joined IFPRI as a senior policy adviser to the director general in 1987. He is currently a research fellow emeritus. Prior to this he was the assistant director general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, ...

Despite Vietnam’s remarkable success in reducing poverty from almost 60 percent of the population in 1993 to 14 percent in 2008, 18 million Vietnamese still live on less than US$1.25 a day. Vietnam supplies a fifth of the rice consumed worldwide, ...

Phillip Hafner joined IFPRI in May 2012 as a Senior Research Assistant in the Director General’s Office. He holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from George Mason University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Studies from Marylhurst University. ...

The world has made enormous progress in the past 50 years toward eliminating hunger and malnutrition. While, in 1960, roughly 30 percent of the world’s population suffered from hunger and malnutrition, today less than 20 percent does—some five ...

Ce rapport phare de l’IFPRI analyse les principales questions, évolutions et décisions relatives aux politiques alimentaires pour l’année 2012. En mettant en perspective les succès et déconvenues enregistrés par les politiques alimentaires au ...

En 2000, les leaders mondiaux ont défini l’objectif de réduire de moitié, entre 1990 et 2015, la proportion des personnes souffrant de la faim. Cet objectif relativement modeste fait partie du premier objectif du Millénaire pour le développement, ...

Fifteen years ago China’s Loess Plateau was a barren region plagued by wind and soil erosion, making farming beyond subsistence virtually impossible. Millennia of agricultural exploitation and relentless grazing by domestic livestock had taken ...

Edited by Shenggen Fan and Rajul Pandya-Lorch The fundamental purpose of agriculture is not just to produce food and raw materials, but also to grow healthy, well-nourished people. One of the sector’s most important tasks then is to provide food ...

In recent years, quality standards have become crucial for developing countries’ agricultural production systems in gaining access to high-value markets abroad or at home. High-value supply chains offer opportunities for high profits, but in ...

Between 1970 and 2009, India has overcome many infrastructural, market, and institutional challenges to transition from a dairy importing nation to the top producer in the world of both buffalo and goat milk, as well as the sixth largest producer ...

Many people in the vast rural areas of Africa lack access to financial services, and most commercial banks are not interested in moving into these areas due to their low income levels, lack of scale economies, and poor infrastructure. Also, few ...

PepsiCo is a global business operating in more than 200 countries and territories and rooted in creating and delivering iconic, great tasting foods and beverages. A critical aspect of its operations is the ability to take successes in one part of ...

Taking successful development interventions to scale is critical if the world is to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and make essential gains in the fight for improved agricultural productivity, rural incomes, and nutrition. How to ...

In spite of the rapid growth of the Indian economy, the fraction of the rural population living in poverty has declined only modestly. Increasing indebtedness, rises in input prices, and rapid commercialization have contributed to what some ...

Sinafikeh Gemessa, an Ethiopian national, joined IFPRI in July 2012 as a Senior Research Assistant in the Director General’s Office. Sinafikeh received BS in Statistics and MS in Economics from Addis Ababa University and a Masters in ...

Stacy Roberts is the IFPRI Board Secretary and the Head of Donor Relations. She became Board Secretary in June 2010. As Head of Donor Relations, she and her team coordinate fundraising activities at IFPRI and manage CGIAR-wide planning ...

The Green Revolution brought modern science to bear on a widening Asian food crisis in the 1960s. The speed and scale with which it solved the food problem was remarkable and unprecedented, and it contributed to a substantial reduction in poverty ...

Argentine agriculture has undergone significant transformations over the past three decades. After a long period of stagnant production and productivity, starting in the early 1970s, a number of independent but interconnected events fostered a ...

The need to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has raised the profile of social sector investments in Africa and other developing countries. As a result, many African countries are pressured to emphasize short-term concerns related ...

Mungbean is a major pulse crop in Asia. National partners in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Thailand collaborated with AVRDC – The World Vegetable Center, using an integrated, interdisciplinary approach ...

This brief examines how different growth patterns lead to different nutritional outcomes and identifies the factors that influence the magnitude of this relationship. It aims to offer researchers insights on areas for future research and analysis ...

Global food insecurity remains a serious problem. In 2010, more than 900 million people are still hungry, and progress toward reaching the first Millennium Development Goal of halving the world’s proportion of malnourished people is off track by ...

Tolulope Olofinbiyi (Tolu), a Nigeria national, is a Program Manager in the Director General’s Office. She manages activities for the Director General’s research and outreach. Tolu has worked with Development Alternatives Inc. in Bethesda., ...

This paper reviews the success of zero-tillage wheat in the rice-wheat systems of the Indo-Gangetic Plains. Diffusion of the zero- tillage technology increased in the last decade, particularly in northwest India. In 2008, in India alone, the ...

世界需要加快在减少贫困和饥饿方面的进步速度。据估计，20世纪50年代末期全世界约有10亿人（约占世界总人口的三分之一）每天生活在饥饿之中。饥荒尤其使亚洲和非洲数百万人受到了严重威胁，同时不断增长的世界人口使抗击饥饿的努力显得异常艰难。为了应对紧迫的挑战，科学家、政策制定者、农民以及有关人士共同努力以推动发展中国家的农业生产和生产率的提高。发展中国家、发达国家、发展机构和民间团体采取了一系列举措以促进农业发展；他们采用先进的科学技术以促进农作物和牲畜生产，建设灌溉体系，采用新的耕作方式以保 ...