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IFPRI panel: Myanmar has great economic potential but faces poverty, hunger, and other hurdles
Some ways Myanmar can unleash and diversify its agricultural sector while raising living standards.
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Putting high-value agriculture to work for the poor
High-value agriculture can benefit smallholder farmers, research shows, but policy makers have been slow to embrace this kind of change.
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Strengthening social safety nets with better evidence
Gauging IFPRI's work with governments to improve social protection programs
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Breastfeeding practices can be improved at large scale for better health and nutrition
IFPRI found Alive & Thrive had a measurable impact improving breastfeeding in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Vietnam
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How is SPEED being applied in research?
Public investment has gained importance in development in recent years. In the Malabo Declaration on African Agriculture and CAADP from 2014, heads of state and government of the African Union recommitted to uphold the target of allocating 10 percent of total spending to agriculture, as originally agreed in the 2003 Maputo Declaration. As part of […]
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Taking stock of IFPRI’s 40 years of food and nutrition research
How does IFPRI stack up as a research organization? Our recent 40th anniversary provides an opportunity to take stock of the Institute’s policy influence and impact over the years.
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Providing aid to refugee camps can benefit the host country’s economy
The Syrian civil war has forced millions of people to leave their homes over the past five years, throwing the issue of refugees to the forefront of public debate. Though far from being a new phenomenon, this has led to renewed interest in the question: what is the economic impact of refugees on host countries? […]
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Egypt and other Arab countries need sound policies to jump-start development efforts
Participants at a recent Cairo seminar held to mark the Egypt launch of IFPRI’s Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) grappled with the Arab region’s profound development problems. The upheavals of the Arab Spring halted progress in meeting the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), said Clemens Breisinger, director of IFPRI’s Egypt Strategy Support Program. “It […]
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Can maize breeding keep up with climate change?
Knowing when and how climate change will impact crop production is essential for devising adaptation solutions.
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It’s time to revisit how we measure and track infant and young child complementary feeding practices
Good nutrition in the earliest stages of life directly influences children’s future nutrition and development as they grow into healthy adults. Research has contributed to a set of guiding principles on the best infant and young child complementary feeding (IYCF) practices to promote healthy child growth, development, and nutrition.Yet good guidelines can only take us […]