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Embeddable Map (Put this map on your website) Die Ergebnisse des Welthunger-Indexes (WHI) zeigen deutlich, dass weiterhin nur geringe Fortschritte bei der globalen Hungerbekämpfung erzielt werden. Die WHI-Werte 2009 sind im Vergleich mit denen ...

Abusaleh Shariff is a Senior Research Fellow at the New Delhi Office. He has conducted research in the fields of development economics, human development, poverty studies, demography and health economics, labour and social Security, social ...

A farmer-managed, agroenvironmental transformation has occurred over the past three decades in the West African Sahel, enabling both land rehabilitation and agricultural intensification to support a dense and growing population. This paper traces ...

Anjor Bhaskar joined IFPRI-New Delhi Office (NDO) in May 2008. Bhaskar is currently working on the design aspect of impact evaluation strategy of a project in the Integrated Child Development Scheme in India over the period 2009-2013. Some of his ...

Dr. Ashok Gulati is currently IFPRI Director in Asia based in IFPRI’s New Delhi Office. During January 2001 to February 2006, he was Director of the Markets, Trade and Institutions Division of IFPRI in Washington D.C. Before joining IFPRI, Ashok ...

Bella Nestorova, a Bulgarian citizen, is a Research Analyst at the Director General’s Office. Prior to joining IFPRI, she worked at the African Department of the International Monetary Fund and the Sustainable Development Division of the UN ...

Bonnie McClafferty, a US citizen, and is the Head of Development and Communications of HarvestPlus, a global Challenge Program of the CGIAR that seeks to reduce malnutrition by breeding nutrient rich staple crops. Before taking her current ...

Cassava was imported from Latin America some 300 years ago, and colonial governments in Africa used it as a famine-reserve crop. Over time cassava spread to over 40 countries in Sub-Sahara Africa, and Nigeria is now the largest cassava producer ...

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 people over one billion. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Jyotsana Dua joined IFPRI-NDO on October 5, 2006 as a Senior Administrative Coordinator. She is responsible for the finance and human resource in IFPRI-NDO. She has completed her master’s in commerce and later did MBA in human resource from ...

Kenda Cunningham, a Sr. Research Assistant in the Director General’s Office, joined IFPRI in October 2008 to support the Millions Fed project. She holds an MA in Latin American Studies and a certificate in Immigration, Refugees, and Humanitarian ...

Food supply chains are being transformed in a number of developing countries due to widespread changes in urban food demand. To better anticipate the impact of this transformation and thus assist in the design of appropriate policies, it is ...

Monica Dutta joined IFPRI –NDO office on August 11, 2008 as a Research Analyst at the New Delhi Office. She is currently working on Global Food Price Scenario and its relation to poverty. With future projects involve agricultural trade of India ...

Neelmani Gupta joined IFPRI - New Delhi Office (NDO) on May 11, 2009 as a Research Analyst. He is working on agriculture and water research studies under the IFPRI-IWMI joint program. He is a rural management graduate from the Institute of Rural ...

Dr. Ousmane Badiane is the Africa Director for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). In this role, he coordinates IFPRI’s work program in the areas of food policy research, capacity strengthening, and policy communications in ...

The spread of modern varieties and hybrids of pearl millet and sorghum that began in the mid-1960s has had an important impact on small farmer welfare in India. The success and sustainability of these improved cultivars resulted from three types ...

This paper documents the factors driving the impressive growth in fertilizer use and maize productivity in Kenya since the early 1990s up to 2007. The basic story is one of synergies between liberalization of input and maize markets and public ...

The Genetic Improvement of Farmed Tilapia (GIFT) project, which operated from 1988–97, served as a launching point for tilapia improvement efforts in Asia, as well as tropical finfish genetic improvements globally. Based on the selective breeding ...

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 ...

Sunipa Das Gupta joined IFPRI-NDO in 2008. She is working on Agri-business in India on the value chain aspect. She has completed her M. Phil in Economics from Calcutta University.

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 ...

During the past 70 years, concerted efforts by the national veterinary services of affected countries from Senegal to China and Russia to South Africa—aided by international organizations—have brought the once-dreaded rinderpest virus to the ...

Bangladesh has made notable progress in achieving food security, despite extreme population pressures, limited land resources, and an agrarian structure dominated by small and tenant farmers. After two decades of sluggish performance prior to the ...

Although many millions of people have exited poverty in recent decades, much of the reduction in poverty has benefited people living close to the poverty line rather than those at the very bottom of the income distribution. This book is not ...

Tolulope Olofinbiyi (Tolu), a Nigeria national, joined IFPRI in March 2007 as a Senior Research Assistant in the Director General’s Office. She currently supports the Director General and Special Assistant to the Director General in research and ...

Vaishali Dassani joined IFPRI- NDO office on August 4, 2008 as Communication and Coordination Specialist. She is working in the communication division to promote IFPRI and strengthen the relation with journalists. Also working on the various ...