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The IFPRI community is saddened by the passing of Dr. Wilberforce Kisamba Mugerwa, a Ugandan agricultural economist, politician, and academic, on January 7, 2021.

Researcher Joseph Glauber testifies that the challenges of meeting future food needs will require a concerted effort from governments to improve the functioning of food and agricultural markets. 

IFPRI and the Ethiopia Strategy Support Program (ESSP) are saddened by the passing of Ato Newai Gebre-Ab, a champion of IFPRI's work who made many contributions to Ethiopia's development.

Statement by Shenggen Fan
Director General, IFPRI
G20 Agriculture Ministers Meeting, Niigata, Japan
May 11, 2019

Distinguished guests, 

Ladies and gentlemen,

I would like to commend the G20 Agriculture Ministers for recognizing the need to transform our food systems to achieve human and planetary health, and continuing to champion the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. 

November 15, Washington, D.C.: I have informed IFPRI staff and supporters that my second, five-year term as Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) will conclude in one year, December 2019.  Upon completing my tenure, I will return to China and continue my life’s work to reduce hunger, malnutrition, and poverty around the world.

Statement by Shenggen Fan
Director General, IFPRI
(as prepared)

G20 Agriculture Ministers Meeting, Buenos Aires, Argentina

IFPRI's Tewodaj Mogues is among 7 women to be inducted into the Program designed to empower women & diversify foreign policy perspectives.

Evaluating agriculture sector progress of African countries toward achieving the seven broad commitments of the 2014 Malabo Declaration.

Statement by Shenggen Fan Director General, IFPRI
10th Berlin Agriculture Ministers’ Conference, Berlin, Germany
20 January 2018

Shenggen Fan, IFPRI director general was awarded the 2017 Fudan Management Excellence Award.

Recent reports that India’s ranking in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) has fallen significantly are based on misinterpretations of the GHI data.

Technological innovations can open up new doors for greater water-use efficiency. 

Director General Shenggen Fan wrote an op-ed in China Daily on agricultural resilience in China. He wrote that it’s critical to invest in drought-tolerant crop varieties, disaster insurance, as well as flood control and irrigation.

Statement by IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan from the G20 Agriculture Ministers Meeting

IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan on the earthquakes striking Japan and Ecuador:

January 22, 2016, Davos, Switzerland – I am honored to be part of the Champions Coalition in support of the Sustainable Development Goal 12.3, which seeks to halve per capita food waste and reduce food losses by 2030.

“Today’s historic agreement at the Paris talks on climate change represents a huge step forward in our collective effort to reduce carbon emissions and keep temperature from rising by more than 2 degrees Celsius above the historical average. I am very pleased that wealthy nations have agreed to fund efforts to combat climate change and that so many developing countries have agreed to adopt strong mechanisms to promote climate action.

On the occasion of the climate talks in Paris, Dr. Shenggen Fan, Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), has issued the following media statement:

Today, the United Nations announced that El Niño has contributed to a 3.9% increase in major food commodities in October. The Food and Agriculture Organization’s Food Outlook report found that sugar and palm oil supplies were the main reasons for the increase.