- General InformationThe 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 ...
- General InformationKenya, which ranks 50 on the 2011 Global Hunger Index, is classified has having a “serious” hunger problem. In comparison, Ghana ranks 20, Uganda ranks 42, Tanzania is 58, Ethiopia is 77, Eritrea ranks 79, and Burundi is 80. With a ranking of ...
- General InformationWheat, which provides nearly three-fifths of the total caloric intake in Tajikistan, accounts for almost half of the country’s irrigated production and almost two-thirds of its rain fed production. In May 2011, the price of wheat in ...
- General InformationSouth Asia has the highest regional 2011 Global Hunger Index (GHI) score—22.6. The 2011 GHI score fell by 25 percent in South Asia compared with its 1990 score, and the 2011 GHI score in Southeast Asia decreased by 44 percent. More ...
- General InformationThe 2011 GHI score fell by 18 percent in Sub-Saharan Africa compared with the 1990 score. Sub-Saharan Africa’s GHI score stagnated between 1990 and 1996, fell slightly until 2001, and declined more markedly up to the period reflected in the ...
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- Books and MonographsDownload Full Report GHI Mobile App Summary This year’s Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that global hunger has declined since 1990, but not dramatically, and remains at a level characterized as “serious.” <!--break--> 2011 GHI Issue ...
- IFPRI BriefsDownload 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, ...
- EventAbstract The Global Hunger Index is a comprehensive measure of hunger worldwide and by country and region. Although the proportion of hungry people around the world has declined since 1990, global hunger remains at a level characterized as ...
- NewsToday marks the launch of the 2011 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report, the sixth in an annual series, which presents a multidimensional measure of global, regional, and national hunger. This year's report shows that although the world has made some ...
- Books and MonographsZusammenfassung Der Welthunger-Index 2011 zeigt, dass sich die globale Hungersituation seit 1990 geringfügig verbessert hat. Dennoch ist das Ausmaß des Hungers weltweit weiterhin „ernst“. Auf regionaler und nationaler Ebene sind die WHI-Werte ...
- Discussion PapersIn Africa the global food crisis threatens the livelihoods of millions of people who because of high rates of poverty, hunger, malnutrition, and food dependency are already exceptionally vulnerable. In better circumstances, Africa’s ...
- EventAbstract The prices of farm products, namely food products, are crucial determinants of the extent of poverty and inequality in the world. The vast majority of the world’s poorest households considerably depend on farming for income while ...
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- Lectures, Speeches, and TestimonyWorld agriculture has entered a new, unsustainable, and politically risky period. Agriculture-and the natural resources it depends on-has been overexploited ecologically, has suffered from underinvestment, has recently been exposed to ...
- Discussion PapersAlthough the potential causes and consequences of recent increases in international food prices have attracted widespread attention, many existing appraisals are superficial and/or piecemeal. This paper attempts to provide a more comprehensive ...
- NewsThe global food crisis of 2007–08 was characterized by a sharp spike in the prices of most agricultural commodities, including staple grains. High world prices were transmitted to domestic markets, eroding the purchasing power of urban ...
- IFPRI BriefsA review of various economic indicators shows that both the recent food crisis and the financial and economic crisis have had significant negative effects on the Central American countries. The first jolt to the region came in 2007 and mid-2008, ...
- PublicationTestimony for the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, May 7, 2008 Recent dramatic increases in food prices are having severe consequences for poor countries and poor people. The Food and Agriculture ...
- Lectures, Speeches, and TestimonyTestimony to the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on Thursday, June 12, 2008 World agriculture is at a turning point: economic growth, energy needs, and climate change redefine the equations of agricultural ...
- NewsThe 2011 Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE), cohosted by the World Bank, OECD, the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, and the French Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industry, was held on May 31-Jun 1 in ...
- NewsFood price volatility is one of the most critical economic and food security challenges facing policymakers today. Spikes in food prices can have a significant impact on incomes, markets, and nutrition worldwide and, in extreme cases, can cause ...
- Staff ProfileCarlos Martins-Filho is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and a Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is an econometrician with a research focus on ...
- EventInternational workshop organized by IFPRI and hosted by the Indonesian National Team for the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction and Ministry of Agriculture Although much progress has been made in reducing poverty and hunger, there are still ...
- IFPRI BriefsLa crisis de precios de los alimentos de 2007/2008 se debió a varias razones, entre ellas: una creciente demanda por alimentos en países emergentes, los cambios en los mercados internacionales de granos propiciados por los biocombustibles, el ...
- Staff ProfileDr. David Laborde Debucquet joined IFPRI, Washington DC, in 2007. He is a Senior Research Fellow and leader of the “Globalization and Markets” research program in the Markets, Trade and Institutions Division. More about Dr David Laborde ...
- Staff ProfileDerek Headey is a research fellow in the Development Strategy and Governance Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), where he joined as a postdoctoral fellow in 2008. A development economist, his research encompasses ...
- IFPRI BriefsLes 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 ...
- Lectures, Speeches, and TestimonyWorld agriculture has entered a new, unsustainable, and politically risky period. Agriculture-and the natural resources it depends on-has been overexploited ecologically, has suffered from underinvestment, has recently been exposed to ...
- Discussion PapersThis paper aims to assess the rationales for the use of export taxes, in particular in the context of a food crisis. First, we summarize the effects of export taxes using both partial and general equilibrium theoretical models. When large ...
- IFPRI BriefsEl notable aumento en el precio de los alimentos en los últimos dos años ha suscitado serias preocupaciones en torno a la alimentación y nutrición de los pobres en los países en desarrollo, y de manera más general, en torno a la inflación y al ...
- General InformationThe 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 ...
- Discussion PapersHigher world food prices have led many governments in developing countries to adopt policy measures to mitigate the adverse impact on low-income households. This paper sets out a partial equilibrium framework to evaluate the relative efficiency, ...
- VideoMaximo Torero, Director of IFPRI's Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division, and Carlos Martins-Filho, IFPRI Senior Research Fellow, describe model behind the IFPRI's "Excessive Food Price Variability Early Warning System" - an online tool for ...
- EventThree quarters of the world’s poor are farmers in developing countries. Their earnings from farming have been depressed by a pro-urban bias in own-country policies as well as by governments of richer countries favoring their farmers with ...
- NewsRecent events in Russia, one of the largest suppliers of wheat in the world, have raised concern about the current and future price of wheat and wheat-based products. This article briefly examines the issue and determines if there is in fact ...
- Food Policy ReportsHigh food prices from 2007 through mid-2008 had serious implications for food and nutrition security, macroeconomic stability, and political security. The unfolding global financial crisis and economic slowdown have now pushed food prices to ...
- Project Papers and NotesHow households adjust their consumption in response to changes in prices and income is crucial determinant of the effects of various shocks to market prices and commodity supplies. These adjustments in demand are particularly significant in ...
- General InformationWhile they have since gone down slightly, global food prices rose significantly from 2007‐08,with some agricultural commodities even doubling in price. The consequences of the sudden rapid rise in food prices have been particularly severe for the ...
- NewsThe FAO’s recent announcement that global food prices reached a record high in December 2010 has once again brought food security to the forefront of global attention. The continued rise in food prices in 2010, coupled with the prediction of a ...
- OnlineWith food prices having such far-reaching effects, access to correct, relevant, and useful global price and market information is more important than ever before. To better serve this need, the Food Security Portal was redeveloped in 2010 to ...
- Books and MonographsSince its earliest years IFPRI has conducted research on food subsidies, concentrating on methods to achieve the social objectives of subsidies without undue distortion of the economy or excessive economic and political costs. Studies have been ...
- Books and MonographsThe government of almost every country has intervened in the market pricing of foodgrains to promote price stability. But the rules of the game are changing as countries abandon trade restrictions and protectionist policies in the wake of the ...
- Discussion PapersThis paper provides empirical evidence on the gendered impact of the 2007–08 food price crisis using panel data on 1,400 households from rural Ethiopia that were initially surveyed before the onset of the crisis, in 1994–95, 1997, and 2004, and ...
- IFPRI BriefsStrong 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 ...
- Food Policy ReportsStrong upward trends and increased variability in global food prices over 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 ...
- InfographicInfographic The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is based on three equally weighted indicators: More information Full Report GHI 2011 Press Briefing the proportion of undernourished as a percentage of the population (reflecting the share of the ...
- IFPRI BriefsLa complexité des causes de la crise actuelle en matière d’alimentation et d’agriculture exige une réponse exhaustive. Compte tenu de l’urgence de l’aide à apporter aux personnes et aux pays dans le besoin, le premier ...
- EventAbstract Ruth Meinzen-Dick, a senior research fellow in IFPRI’s Environment and Production Technology Division and chair of IFPRI’s Gender Task Force, launched the seminar by noting that gender analysis has been largely absent from ...
- IFPRI BriefsThe current food price crisis has received widespread attention, but discussions to date have largely overlooked the gender dimensions of the crisis. More than 15 years of rigorous research on gender and intrahousehold resource allocation suggest ...
- Lectures, Speeches, and TestimonyPresentation at a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) conference on “Addressing the Challenges of a Changing World Food Situation: Preventing Crisis and Leveraging Opportunity,” Washington, D.C., April 11, 2008.
- EventSummary Joachim von Braun, director general of IFPRI, launched the policy seminar by stating that both supply and demand factors are contributing to the current food price crisis. This crisis comes at a time when the world’s income ...
- Lectures, Speeches, and TestimonyThe food price crisis hits a world that has the most unequal distribution of income ever, and a world that has left the poorest behind. The proportion of the ultra-poor who have incomes of less than half a dollar a day has declined even more ...
- IFPRI BriefsThe complex causes of the current food and agriculture crisis require a comprehensive response. In view of the urgency of assisting people and countries in need, the first set of policy actions- an emergency package-consists of steps that can ...
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- BookletsHigh food prices are not only causing a humanitarian crisis, but also putting at risk the development potential of millions of people. Global agriculture markets are undergoing structural changes, and the next three to four years will pose great ...
- Discussion PapersRising world prices for fuel and food represent a negative terms-of-trade shock for Mozambique. The impacts of these price increases are analyzed using various approaches. Detailed price data show that the world price increases are being ...
- IFPRI BriefsDie vielschichtigen Ursachen der gegenwärtigen Krise im Bereich der Nahrungsmittelproduktion und Landwirtschaft erfordern eine umfassende globale Antwort. Angesichts der dringend benötigen Hilfe besteht der erste Maßnahmenkatalog - ein ...
- InfographicThe Horn of Africa food crisis infographic includes information on: Urgent Actions Food Security Indices Vulnerability to World Prices Safety Net Programs: Ethiopia Maize Crop Intensification Financing Agricultural Investments Agricultural ...
- Discussion PapersThis paper examines the level of interdependence and volatility transmission across major exchanges of maize, wheat, and soybeans in the United States, Europe, and Asia. We follow a multivariate GARCH approach to explore in detail and under ...
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- Annual ReportsThe report includes three essays about Responding to the World Food Crisis: Getting on the Right Track by Joachim von Braun, High Global Food Prices: The Challenges and Opportunities by Josette Sheeran, and Policy Implications of High Food Prices ...
- CD-RomsThe CD-ROM includes three essays about Responding to the World Food Crisis: Getting on the Right Track by Joachim von Braun, High Global Food Prices: The Challenges and Opportunities by Josette Sheeran, and Policy Implications of High Food Prices ...
- ArchiveCONTENTS: •Building Local Skills and Knowledge for Food Security •The Hong Kong Trade Talks: Before and After •New Book Features Highlights of 30 Years of IFPRI Research •There’s More Than One Way to Reform Water Rights •Beyond “Rural” and ...
- ArchiveCONTENTS: •Funding Africa’s Farmers •Public-Private Cooperation in Agricultural Research •Working with Ugandan Parliamentarians on Food Security •Rural Development in West Africa •Supporting Agriculture in Ethiopia’s Poor Regions •Putting a ...
- ArchiveCONTENTS: •Speculation and World Food Markets •IFPRI Contributes to the Debate on Rising Food Prices •Examining the Implications of Biotechnology for Developing Countries •IFPRI Policy Dialogue in Europe on Agriculture, Development, and the ...
- ArchiveCONTENTS: •The 10 Percent that Could Change Africa •Tapping the DRC’s Immense Agricultural Potential •Empowering Women Farmers in South Asia •Best-Bet Investments in Agricultural Research •Interview with Asha-Rose Migiro Deputy ...
- ArchiveCONTENTS: •What Goes Down Must Come Up: Global Food Prices Reach New Heights •Commentary: Toward a New Global Governance System for Agriculture, Food, and Nutrition: What Are the Options? •Prevention More Effective than Treatment •Scientific ...
- Project Papers and NotesFood security has deteriorated since 1995 and reductions in child malnutrition are proceeding too slowly to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target for halving hunger by 2015. Three major challenges threaten to drastically complicate ...
- Discussion PapersPrevious studies implicitly assume uniform price-effects across regions or provinces within countries. They also do not address the issue of integration between the world food market and local markets. Instead, they assume a complete transmission ...
- IFPRI BriefsThe 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 ...
- Lectures, Speeches, and TestimonyThe prices of maize, wheat, rice, and other crops have more than doubled over the past two years. These price hikes have been catalyzed by various factors including the rising cost of oil, biofuel subsidies in the US and Europe, the depreciation ...
- NewsAs Baher Magulu sells maize flour to his customers at the Cashworth Mini Mart in Entebbe, Uganda, he doesn’t conceal his own surprise at the high price. In late May, one kilo of flour sold for 1700 Ugandan Shillings—200 more than it cost just one ...
- Books and MonographsRésumé Le Global Hunger Index 2011 (GHI), ou Indice de la faim dans le monde, est un outil statistique qui permet de mesurer et de suivre l’évolution de la faim dans le monde, pays par pays et région par région. Les conclusions du GHI de cette ...
- General InformationL’Indice de la faim dans le monde 2011 (GHI – Global Hunger Index) est calculé pour 122 pays en développement et pays en transition pour lesquels des données sur les trois composantes de la faim sont disponibles. Le GHI de cette ...
- Books and MonographsResumen 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 ...
- Books and MonographsSommario Il Global Hunger Index (GHI) di quest’anno mostra che la fame nel mondo è diminuita dal 1990, ma non in modo notevole, e rimane a un livello classifi cato come “grave”. I livelli di GHI variano molto da regione a ...
- VideoIFPRI Policy Seminar, "Informing the G20 Agenda: Actions to Address Food Price Volatility," Washington, DC, June 14, 2011. See also additional comments by presenters, Peter Timmer and Charlotte Hebebrand and related blog story
- EventIncreasing food price volatility in the wake of the 2007-08 food crisis has raised serious concerns around the world because of its impact on the poor. When the G20 agriculture ministers convene in Paris in June, discussions on how to combat ...
- News"Trade in the agricultural sector remains quite distorted," said Charlotte Hebebrand of the International Food & Agricultural Trade Policy Council, while speaking on actions needed to address food price volatility. In her address, Hebebrand ...
- Discussion PapersCereal price variability in Ethiopia has worsened in recent years, and some of the earlier liberalizations are being reversed due to the unacceptable economic and political costs of increased price variability. The challenge now is to achieve ...
- IFPRI BriefsThe recent food crisis, combined with the energy crisis and emerging climate-change issues, threatens the livelihoods of millions of poor people as well as the economic, ecological, and political situation in many developing countries. Progress ...
- BookletsThe recent food crisis, combined with the energy crisis and emerging climate-change issues, threatens the livelihoods of millions of poor people as well as the economic, ecological, and political situation in many developing countries. Progress ...
- IFPRI BriefsEn muchas partes del mundo, el aumento del crecimiento agrícola tendrá un papel clave contribuyendo a superar la actual crisis alimentaria mundial, aportando al crecimiento económico general, y ayudando a lograr el primer Objetivo de Desarrollo ...
- IFPRI BriefsLa reciente crisis alimentaria, junto con la crisis energética y los problemas emergentes causados por el cambio climático, amenazan los medios de vida de millones de personas de escasos recursos, así como la situación económica, ecológica y ...
- IFPRI BriefsIn many parts of the world, increased agricultural growth will play a key role in addressing the current world food crisis, in contributing to overall economic growth, and in helping to achieve the first Millennium Development Goal of halving the ...
- Event3rd CAER-IFPRI Annual International Conference Background China Agricultural Economic Review (CAER) is delighted to announce its third annual conference, which is being organized by the CAER editorial office and International Food Policy ...
- Project Papers and NotesLe changement climatique et la dégradation des terres constituent de très fortes menaces pour la survie de millions de personnes en Afrique sub-saharienne. Pourtant, il est d’ores et déjà réellement possible de contribuer à améliorer les ...
- Discussion PapersThis paper takes a local perspective on global food price shocks by analyzing food price transmission between regional markets in Ghana. It also assesses the impacts of differential local food price increases on various household groups. Taking ...
- IFPRI BriefsThere are no easy solutions to the ongoing food price crisis. Maize and wheat prices doubled between 2003 and 2008, and the price of rice doubled in the first four months of 2008, rising 33 percent in a single day. Even with declines in food ...
- IFPRI BriefsLa complejidad de las causas de la actual crisis alimentaria y agrícola requiere de una respuesta integral. En vista de que es urgente prestar asistencia a las poblaciones y los países necesitados, la primera serie de acciones de política -un ...
- IFPRI BriefsÀ partir du milieu des années 90, l’Afrique a entamé sa plus longue période de croissance positive et soutenue du revenu par habitant depuis les années 60. Cette reprise de la croissance a contribué à réduire la pauvreté et laisse espérer que ...
- Staff ProfileManuel Hernandez joined IFPRI in July 2009 as a Postdoctoral Fellow. He received his PhD in Economics from Texas A&M University in May 2009. He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Universidad del Pacifico in Lima, Peru. Prior ...
- DivisionInadequate policies, institutions, and rural infrastructure lead to agricultural markets that do not function efficiently. As a consequence, the poor pay more for their food and receive less for their produce. To enhance the efficiency of ...
- IFPRI BriefsLa revisión de varios indicadores económicos muestra que tanto la crisis de alimentos como la crisis económica y financiera recientes tuvieron efectos negativos considerables sobre los países centroamericanos. La primera golpeó a la región entre ...
- Staff ProfileMaximo Torero is the Division Director of the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute, leader of the Global Research Program on Institutions and Infrastructure for Market Development and ...
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- Discussion PapersThis study explores the differences between mountain and non-mountain countries in food security and its determinants. Econometric analysis shows that mountain regions are likely to have lower food security. The findings suggest that people in ...
- Lectures, Speeches, and TestimonyStrategischer Gesprächskreis der EADS, Berlin 26.3.2009
- Discussion PapersThe closely interlinked food, fuel and financial crises pose a significant new challenge to the global effort to reduce poverty. In short run, the oil-biofuels nexus was clearly the driving force behind the surge in food prices, but export ...
- Staff ProfileNicholas W. Minot is a senior research fellow in the Markets, Trade and Institutions Division. Since joining IFPRI in 1997 as a post-doctoral fellow, he has carried out research on the agricultural market reform in Africa, fertilizer policy, ...
- Lectures, Speeches, and TestimonyTrust for Advancement of Agricultural Sciences (TAAS), Fourth Foundation Day Lecture New Delhi, March 6, 2009 Today’s acute world food situation is shaped by volatility of food prices, low growth in agricultural productivity, and ...
- Despite progress in recent years, the incidence of poverty in the Philippines remains very high: the national poverty rate was more than 30 percent in 2003, with even higher levels in rural areas. Because poor Filipino households spend more than ...
- Books and MonographsThe Philippines has undergone a series of trade reforms since the mid-1980s that have reduced protection on nonagricultural goods. However, protection on key food items is still in effect, and this has led to high domestic food prices. Such high ...
- IFPRI BriefsThe current food crisis has several causes-rising demand for food and feed, biofuels, high oil prices, climate change, stagnant agricultural productivity growth-but there is increasing evidence that the crisis is being made worse by the ...
- BookletsAfrican agriculture is at a crossroads. The current high food prices and the instability they have provoked in several countries have added impetus for African countries to review their agricultural policies and programs. New agricultural ...
- Discussion PapersThis study evaluates the potential impact of the recent rise in world food prices on the Moroccan economy and possible policy options to respond to it. The study focuses mainly on the poverty effects of such an external shock and the possible ...
- Discussion PapersThe study estimates a conditional mean model for international wheat prices and inventories. Endogenous price volatility and exogenous shocks in the price and inventory series are controlled for in estimation. Redressing the empirical linkage ...
- IFPRI BriefsL‘envolée des prix alimentaires au cours des deux dernières années a suscité de vives inquiétudes par rapport à la situation alimentaire et nutritionnelle des pauvres dans les pays en développement, par rapport à l’inflation ou encore, dans ...
- Discussion PapersFrom 2006 to mid-2008 the international prices of agricultural commodities increased considerably, by a factor larger than two. This upward trend in agricultural prices captured the world’s attention as a new food crisis was emerging. Several ...
- Books and MonographsThe dramatic surge in food prices from 2005 to 2008 seriously threatened the world’s poor, who struggle to buy food even under normal circumstances, and led to protests and riots in the developing world. The crisis eventually receded, but such ...
- EventAbstract This seminar consists of three presentations of new work on the global food crisis. Headey and Fan present an update of their earlier review of the causes and consequences of the food crisis, with new data and analysis of sources of ...
- BookletsEl dramático aumento y la volatilidad de los precios de los alimentos durante el último año han sacudido al sistema alimentario mundial. Por lo general, tanto los gobiernos como la comunidad dedicada al desarrollo internacional han respondido ...
- BookletsThe dramatic rise and volatility of food prices over the last year have shaken the global food system. Governments and the international development community generally have responded to various aspects of the food crisis, but questions remain ...
- BookletsPart of the difficulty in responding to the food crisis is the lack of credible and up-todate data on the impacts of food prices on poor people and on the effects of policy responses. Such information would allow international and national ...
- Discussion PapersFrom 2003 to their peak in mid 2008, the nominal prices of maize and wheat roughly doubled, while those of rice tripled in a matter of months rather than years. Although fundamental factors were clearly responsible for shifting the world to a ...
- IFPRI BriefsThe sharp increase in food prices over the past couple of years has raised serious concerns about the food and nutrition situation of poor people in developing countries, about inflation, and-in some countries-about civil unrest. Real prices are ...
- IFPRI BriefsGrain traders in 1995 may have wondered if they were about to relive the world food crisis of the early 1970s. Prices for wheat, rice, and maize shot up during the year, grain stocks continued a three-year fall, fertilizer prices increased, and ...
- PresentationsGovernments of developed and developing countries, as well as international organizations, must use a comprehensive approach to prevent a food crisis reoccurrence. There are 7 main initiatives that governments and institutions should promptly ...
- Staff ProfileShahidur Rashid joined IFPRI as a postdoctoral fellow in 1999 to work on a research program on "Public Policies for Rural Institutions, Markets and Infrastructure Development." Prior to joining IFPRI, he worked with the Bangladesh Institute of ...
- IFPRI BriefsDer steile Anstieg der Nahrungsmittelpreise in den letzten beiden Jahren gibt Anlass zu grosser Sorge in Bezug auf die Ernährungssituation der Armen in den Entwicklungsländern, die Inflation und -in einigen Länderndie dadurch ausgelösten Unruhen. ...
- NewsStrategic grain reserves—also called emergency food reserves or food security reserves—have received considerable attention following the global food crisis of 2007–08. Various models for holding reserves have been discussed at such high-level ...
- Discussion PapersHolding strategic grain reserves to address food price hikes has received renewed attentions in recent years. This paper examines such a program in Ethiopia that has been successful in addressing several emergencies since the 1990s. The analysis ...
- IFPRI BriefsStarting in the mid-1990s, Africa embarked upon its longest period of sustained, positive per capita income growth since the 1960s. This growth recovery has made a dent in poverty and holds out hope that a number of African countries may reach ...
- IFPRI BriefsSi l’objectif de réduction de la faim a fait l’objet d’un regain d’attention prometteur en 2004 et en 2005, le monde reste en butte aux problèmes familiers et de grande ampleur que sont la faim et la malnutrition ...
- Books and MonographsFood subsidies affect various sectors of the Egyptian economy, but theirinfluence on agriculture, which employs a considerable share of the na-tion’s resources, seems particularlystrong (vonBraun and de Haen, 1983).A major objective of this ...
- Egypt’s food subsidy system has been a mainstay of the government’s long-term policy of promoting social equity and political stability. It has also been a major component of the social safety net for the poor, guaranteeing the ...
- Books and MonographsEgypt’s food subsidy system has been a mainstay of the government’s long-term policy of promoting social equity and political stability. It has also been a major component of the social safety net for the poor, guaranteeing the ...
- NewsThough 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 ...
- EventAbstract The financial and economic crash of 2008 was immediately succeeded by a global recession that is leading to significant paradigm shifts in the global policy agenda. It has slowed, and in some cases reversed, the progress in output ...
- Discussion PapersThis paper aims to document IFPRI’s communications activities during the recent food crisis which peaked in mid-2008. IFPRI’s communications activities during the food crisis were somewhat unusual for the Institute. The communications campaign ...
- Project Papers and NotesClimate change and land degradation are major threats to the survival and livelihoods of millions of people in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Major new opportunities exist to help improve the livelihoods of African smallholder farmers, pastoralists, ...
- Food Policy ReportsThe world food situation is currently being rapidly redefined by new driving forces. Income growth, climate change, high energy prices, globalization, and urbanization are transforming food consumption, production, and markets. The influence of ...
- IFPRI BriefsWhile 2004 and 2005 were promising in terms of renewed attention to reducing hunger, the world still faces the large and familiar problems of widespread hunger and malnutrition. In addition, it is becoming clearer that hidden hunger due to ...
- Lectures, Speeches, and TestimonyEnglish version of paper presented at ‘strategic discussion circle’ EADS, Berlin March 26, 2009 A.Trends in food and agriculture that threaten security Food security will become an increasingly global problem. Of the nearly 6.7 billion people ...
- Discussion PapersThe global food crisis of 2007–2008 was characterized by a sharp spike in the prices of most commodities, including staple grains. This analysis examines the degree to which changes in world food markets influence the price of staple foods in ...
- EventInternational food prices began to rise sharply in the first quarter of 2011, resulting in a second food price crisis in three years. Rising food inflation in many developing countries and increasing food price volatility have revived concerns ...
- NewsJust three years after the 2007-08 food crisis, the food security of poor people and vulnerable groups, especially women and children, is under threat as the prices of basic food items skyrocket. Expanding biofuel production, rising oil prices, ...
- IFPRI BriefsRecent trends in food prices—higher levels and higher volatility—mirror trends predicted by a number of experts. Given the complex web of factors influencing global food security, governments of developed and developing countries, as well as ...
- NewsIn a long-awaited move, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission on October 18 approved limits on trading in the commodities markets. Specifically, the new rules limit the number of commodity contracts that any investor can hold in ...
- IFPRI BriefsHave rising food prices hurt the poor, or helped them? So far, all answers to this question are based on simulation analyses by the World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the US Department of ...
- Discussion PapersEstimates by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the World Bank concerning the welfare impact of the 2007/08 global food crisis conclude that between 75 million and 160 million people ...
- InfographicDer Welthunger-Index (WHI) basiert auf drei gleichwertigen Indikatoren: Anteil der Unterernährten in der Bevölkerung in Prozent (Indikator für den Bevölkerungsanteil mit unzureichender Nahrungsenergiezufuhr), Anteil der Kinder unter fünf Jahren ...
- Lectures, Speeches, and TestimonyWorld agriculture is at a turning point, with high demand due to economic growth accelerating food prices. In addition, energy and climate change are re-defining the equations of supply and demand. Biofuels have a high place on the global agenda, ...
- IFPRI BriefsThe food price crisis of 2007-08 had several causes-rising demand for food, the change in the food equation through biofuels, climate change, high oil prices-but there is substantial evidence that the crisis was made worse by the malfunctioning ...
- NewsRising food prices have driven 44 million people into extreme poverty in recent months. On April 14 and 15, the World Bank and IMF held an open forum to answer questions and debate solutions to overcoming the crisis and ensuring nutritious food ...
- Food Policy Reports当前，一些新的驱动因素正迅速重写着世界食物格局。收入增长、气候变化、能源价格高涨、全球化，以及城市化使得食物的消费、生产和市场状况发生转变。世界食品供应链中，私营成分，尤其是食品零售商的影响力迅速增强；食品供给的变化、农产品价格的攀升、生产者与消费者之间的新型关系对于贫困人口和食品不安全人群的生计具有至关重要的影响。为了向各级决策者提供必要信息，以便其在地方、国家、地区乃至国际层面上能够拥有充分的应对空间，就必须分析和诠释上述全球食品状况的新趋势和新挑战。同样，这些分析对于适当地调整关于 ...
- IFPRI Briefs近两年粮食价格急剧增长，这一现象已经引起人们对发 展中国家中贫困人群食物及营养状况的密切关注，同时也引发 了人们对通货膨胀以及对某些国家内由此产生的社会不安定因 素的高度关注。尽管粮食的实际价格仍低于其七十年代中期所 达到的峰值，但也已攀升至由此以来的最高点。因此，发展中 国家和发达国家的政府都担负着义不容辞的责任，以使粮食价 格处于控制之下并帮助穷人应对高涨的食物开支。 根据联合国粮食与农业组织（FAO）的计算，2007年食 品价格指数增长了近40%，相比之下，2006年涨幅仅为9%。 ...
- IFPRI Briefs近期粮食价格的变化特点——高位波动——印证了许多专家预见到的趋势。由于影响全球粮食安全的因素错综交织，发达国家和发展中国家政府，以及国际机构必须采用综合措施以避免粮食危机卷土重来。这一综合措施须涵盖一系列提案及改革；尽管其中一些提案和措施之前被提出过，但它们的优点放在当前更为息息相关，亟需调整国家和国际预算的优先序及其分配政策。各国政府和机构应当立即采取以下七大举措。 1 实施有效的政策和技术投资，以降低粮食-燃料之间 的竞争。 2 ...
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