Guest post

To meet food security goals in today’s world, we must consider the stresses on food systems. Rising demand for food, driven by population growth, dietary change, and the effects of climate change and other environmental problems.

A battle over trade could shift global soybean markets, generating a wave of impacts around the world that developing countries should prepare for.

The average age of farmers worldwide is 60+. How to bring young people into African agriculture.

Guest post by Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz, co-founder and Chief Executive at the ICTSD.

AgMIP is a worldwide community of scientists focusing on improving the characterization of food security due to climate change and other factors.

The following story by IFPRI Board Member Simon Maxwell was originally published on his personal blog. We were asked at the 40th anniversary conference of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) to think about the challenges for food policy research over the next 40 years – so let me try to do that. I […]

At USAID, we know that addressing gender issues is essential in our work to end extreme poverty and create resilient, democratic societies. Period. Women are key drivers of economic growth and must gain access to and control of capital, land, markets, education and leadership opportunities in order to build vibrant economies and respond to a […]

By Asma Lateef: Last Friday, I participated in the Washington DC launch of the 2015 GNR.

The 2015 Global Nutrition Report, released in New York on 23 September, shows that childhood stunting and wasting remain serious problems: More than 160 million children worldwide under five years old are too short for their age (stunted), while more than 50 million don’t weigh enough for their height (wasted). Although countries are increasingly meeting […]

The following guest blog was authored by Nabeeha Mujeeb Kazi, President and CEO at Humanitas Global, and Chair of the Community for Zero Hunger. On September 2, 2015, Kazi served as lead moderator at an IFPRI Policy Seminar on “The road to New York: Keeping the SDGs agenda in focus.” This month the world will […]

The following story by Cheryl Doss was originally published on the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) EnGenderingData blog. Identifying opportunities for productive investments in women The widely cited “fact” that women in Africa provide 60-80 percent of the labor in agriculture is the latest of a set of claims that have been […]