Ministers, international partners, and other stakeholders are meeting December 18th in Sana’a, Yemen to officially launch the Yemen National Food Security Strategy (NFSS).

Different crops react differently to changes in temperature and precipitation. Furthermore, climate change will affect the various regions of the world differently, and each region cultivates its own mix of crops.

In many developing countries, weak institutions and fiscal mismanagement often lead to poor access to and delivery of public services.

While some recent studies conclude that North American agriculture, including the highly productive Canadian prairies, ¹ is expected

Strategic grain reserves—also called emergency food reserves or food security reserves—have received considerable attention following the global food crisis of 2007–08.

In which regions will agriculture and food security be most affected by climate change? That depends on how you define “affected”. Climate change can affect agricultural outcomes on many levels.

For nearly a decade, IFPRI and its partners in the Regional Network on AIDS, Livelihoods and Food Security (RENEWAL) have been studying the critical links between HIV/AIDS, agriculture, hunger, and m

Feeding a growing world population, likely to reach 9 billion by 2050, poses an unprecedented challenge to human ingenuity.

In his opening keynote to the conference at the First Global Conference on Biofortification, Ambassador William J. Garvelink observed that there’s been a significant decline in funding for agriculture over the past decades.

David Orden, Senior IFPRI Research Fellow and Director of the Global Issues Initiative, Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment, at Virginia Tech, is one of five organizers for this workshop funded by the Farm Foundation, the U.S. Departme

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) recently released two new data sets—the Ethiopia Nile Basin Climate Change Adaptation dataset

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The director of IFPRI’s Program on Biosafety Systems (PBS), Judy Chambers, participated in an Octob

Senior IFPRI Research Fellow Clare Narrod and IFPRI Research Fellows Pippa Chenevix Trench and Marites Tiongco will be participating in a workshop in Phuket, Thailand on Pro Poor HPAI Risk Reduction: Lessons from Southeast Asia and Africa.

IFPRI’s 2020 Vision Initiative has announced a Youth Writing Contest in conjunction with its upcoming conference, “Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition and Health”, to be held February 10-1

Eva Schiffer, former International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) postdoctoral research fellow, discusses how applying the Net-Map method at an 

Orange sweet potato—yes, the type that shows up on Thanksgiving tables here in the U.S.—may well be the first sign of a new nutrition revolution in Africa. We spend a lot of time talking about this versatile root (not tuber).

The 2010 GHI score fell by 14 percent in Sub-Saharan Africa compared with the 1990 score, according to the latest Global Hunger Index (GHI) report.

South Asia has the highest regional “hunger index”, at 22.9 (out of 100), according to the latest Global Hunger Index (GHI) released earlier this week.

The 2010 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report, prepared by IFPRI, Welthungerhilfe, and Concern, focuses on malnutrition among children under two years of age as a leading challeng