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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 […]
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How can reliable water access contribute to nutrition security in Africa south of the Sahara?
The following blog story was written by Laia Domènech, visiting fellow in the Environment and Production Technology Division at IFPRI, in honor of World Water Day 2015. The theme of this year’s event on March 22 is “Water for Sustainable Development.” A set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are expected to be adopted in September […]
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The power of WASH
The following post by IFPRI senior research fellow Lawrence Haddad shares highlights from Chapter 3 of the 2014-2015 Global Food Policy Report, which Haddad co-authored withDean Spears, Director of R.I.C.E. and visiting economist at the Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics, India. The post originally appeared on theDevelopment Horizons blog. This week saw the launch of IFPRI’s 2014-2015 Global Food […]
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From famine to feast in forty years: Policy matters
The following post by IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan was originally published in the Huffington Post. It is the first in a series of blog stories celebrating IFPRI’s 40th anniversary. In the mid-1970s, the outlook for food supplies around the world was grim. There were talks of “food triage”— food-rich countries would decide which food-poor countries […]
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Where do the world’s hungriest people live? Not where you think
The following post by IFPRI Director General, Shenggen Fan, was originally published in the Huffington Post. If you were tasked to end hunger and malnutrition in the world, you might first ask: Where do such vulnerable people live? It may be a surprise that the majority of the world’s hungry and malnourished live in large […]
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Finding a middle ground
Post by Ephraim Nkonya on incentivizing adoption of Integrated Soil Fertility Management.
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Building resilience to crises in the Arab world
The following blog story by IFPRI senior researcher Perrihan Al-Riffai and Nerina Muzurovic, Knowledge Management Officer at IFAD, was originally posted on the Arab Food Security Blog. In a well-attended side event titled “Building Resilience to Crises in the Arab World” at the 41st meeting of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) in Rome, October 17th, 2014, IFPRI in collaboration with […]
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A New Year’s resolution to consider—cut food loss and waste
The following post by IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan was originally published on his DG Corner blog. The holiday season is just over. In the past few weeks, numerous families around the globe filled their plates with holiday-themed food and consumed in merriment, but also discarded a lot of food. Many people are now thinking of New Year resolutions, such […]
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Explore and create with Open Data
For the past three years, the Global Hunger Index (GHI), a tool designed to comprehensively measure and track hunger by region and country, has been published as Linked Open Data (LOD). The GHI highlights successes and failures in hunger reduction and provides insights into the drivers of hunger, as well as food and nutrition insecurity. It does so […]