IFPRI's flagship report examines the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2012.

Climate change scenarios vary considerably over the Amazon region, with an extreme scenario projecting a dangerous (from the human perspective) increase of 3.8°C in temperature and 30% reduction in precipitation by 2050.

This report identifies the links among economic growth, poverty alleviation, and natural resource degradation in Brazil.

Since the 1970s, federal policies promoting migration and encouraging agricultural development of large farms, logging, and ranching have led to the deforestation of vast areas of the Amazon rainforest.Though these policies have largely been repla

Despite the importance of tropical moist forests for conserving biodiversity and storing carbon, forests continue to fall, because the private benefits of clearing land for agriculture far outweigh tangible economic gains from retaining forests.

This report identifies the links among economic growth, poverty alleviation, and natural resource degradation in Brazil.

This paper suggests practical methods for assessing policy research programs, both ex post and ex ante.

Les résultats de la technologie moderne en matière d’augmentation des rendements agricoles sur des sols au potentiel élevé connaissent une réussite éclatante, au point où les chercheurs et les décideurs s’empressent d’employer les intrants moderne