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Harnessing value chains to improve food systems
Chapter 6 of the 2016 Global Food Policy Report highlights the need to adapt food systems to support nutritious and sustainably-produced diets.
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Measuring food loss and waste
The global food system puts significant pressure on the world’s natural resources and is a major contributor of GHG emissions. At the same time, a large amount of the food produced by this system is either lost or wasted each year.
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Taking charge of their own development
UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16 calls for the global community to “promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.” Speaking at a recent panel discussion held at IFPRI’s home office, John Coonrod, executive vice president of The Hunger […]
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Global Food Policy Report calls for improved global food system
According to IFPRI’s 2016 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR), launched in Washington, DC last week, achieving the ambitious aims of the SDGs
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Small farmers can help meet sustainable development and climate goals—but they need our support
Smallholder farmers have a vital role to play in global food security and nutrition, and in supporting a range of development and climate change goals.
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Three steps for tackling food loss and waste
An astounding one third of all food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted between the farm and the fork. Just think about that for a moment.
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2016 Global Food Policy Report: Toward a more sustainable food system
At the recent launch of the 2016 Global Food Policy Report in Washington, DC, IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan saw something of a mixed bag for global food security leading into 2016. On the positive side, the international development community made major strides in 2015 in securing the passage of the UN Sustainable Development Goals […]
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Reinforcing the gender lens in research on value chains and technology adoption
The CGIAR Research Programs on PIM and on Roots, Tubers, and Bananas (RTB) have been collaborating on reinforcing the gender focus in research
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Enabling evaluation: Building capacity with our partners
MTID partners with FONGS, a federation of farmers’ associations in Senegal, to build M&E capacity.
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International Women’s Day 2016: Empowering women with data and evidence in Bangladesh
One of a researcher’s biggest fears is that research outputs go unread, gathering dust on people’s shelves before ending up in the recycling bin. However, this fear was unfounded for our work on the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), which has gone from esoteric research tool to a widely-used data collection tool that has […]