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World Health Day 2017: The links between mental health and child undernutrition and illness
IFPRI research shows that maternal mental health problems, including depression, can harm child nutrition and health—and that helping mothers in this regard helps children.
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Strategies for preventing recurring famines and building resilient food systems
Famines are not the inevitable result of environmental conditions. The right mix of assistance and strategic support, sustained over time, can head off the next catastrophe.
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Why should you apply for the Transforming Nutrition Short Course?
A five day course designed for both policy makers and practitioners that leads participants through cutting-edge knowledge and evidence on global nutrition.
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Innovation in insurance: Managing the risky business of weather
IFPRI research shows that index insurance—which pays farmers automatically based on deviations from an index of rainfall and other factors—can improve the social welfare of rural communities.
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2017 Global Food Policy Report outlines challenges, opportunities in feeding growing urban populations
Participants in IFPRI's 2017 GFPR launch say a paradigm shift is needed in food policy that bridges the needs of cities and rural areas.
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Bridging gaps: Cross-sector collaboration is the future of sustainable business
To build sustainable solutions to global problems, stakeholders must leave the silos that constrict action and thinking. In Kenya, a public-private water partnership is bridging these gaps.
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Innovations for stimulating improved water management
To mark World Water Day March 22, a look at how experimental games can help farmers understand—and sustain—groundwater resources.
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International germplasm exchanges are getting more complicated, and here’s why that matters to global food security
The complex requirements of international treaties are an increasing drag on the global cooperation that agricultural research depends on.
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Empowering women in Bangladesh by strengthening the agriculture-nutrition-gender nexus
A look at IFPRI's Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) project, which aims to identify actions and investments that will help to improve nutrition and empower women.
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The future of global trade and food security for Mercosur
An IFPRI seminar explores possible implications of the upcoming WTO ministerial conference for Latin America.