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Debuts of the 2014-15 Global Food Policy Report
This year’s Global Food Policy Report—IFPRI’s flagship publication—is the fourth in an annual series which provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments in the past year. The topics covered in the 2014-15 report are timely as we usher in a new global development agenda. The launch of the Report in various capital cities […]
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Agricultural R&D Capacity in the Arab world: Positive Progress, but Challenges Remain
Over the past five decades, investments in agricultural R&D have had a tremendous impact on agricultural productivity and food security around the world.
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Exposing hidden hunger
The following is a slightly modified version of a blog story that was originally published on Bread for the World’s Institute Notes. On Saturday, May 30th, Bread for the World Institute and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), partnering with HelpMeViz, will organize a vizathon to bring together a variety of of data heroes— coders, data scientists, designers, and […]
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How will climate change affect the world food system?
Post by IFPRI senior researcher Tim Thomas
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Filling the legal void?
Tanzania recently passed new legislation that provides a glowing example of legal commitment to improving women’s land rights. However, in this setting as elsewhere, local interpretation and implementation can water down a policy’s effectiveness. Customary law—common accepted practices in a community—often dominates. For example, a 2009 study by the Women’s Legal Aid Center finds limited […]
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Nutrition takes center stage at recent Chicago Council Symposium event
Eat your vegetables. Wash your hands. Go to school. These simple instructions, which many of us hear repeatedly throughout childhood, are the basic building blocks of growing up healthy and prepared to reach one’s full potential. However, as Roger Thurow—a senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs who spoke at the Council’s food […]
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Unlocking the code to economic models
Economic models can be used to conduct research on a wide range of topics and help analyze policies pertaining to agricultural growth, poverty, climate change, and natural resource management, to name a few. Libraries of models are widely available at research institutions and via professional organizations but, without knowledge of the coding language used to […]
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Why gender matters for food safety
The following is an excerpted version of a blog story originally published on the CGIARResearch Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) website. The story relates closely to this year’s theme for World Health Day, which highlights the importance of food safety across the global food system. Some of the foods that would most enhance nutrition in diets […]
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Do high food prices and droughts fuel conflict?
The following story by Jacopo Bordignon shares highlights from Chapter 7 of the 2014-2015 Global Food Policy Report, which was authored by Clemens Breisinger, Olivier Ecker, and Jean Francois Trinh Tan from IFPRI’s Development Strategy and Governance Division. The world has seen more and more conflicts in recent years, such as in Syria, Nigeria, and Yemen. What explains these conflicts […]
