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Climate-smart agriculture: scientists show agricultural progress in responding to climate change
The following story was originally published on the BioMed Central blog. The piece highlights research findings from a recent Open Access article that was coauthored by IFPRI senior research fellow Siwa Msangi. Climate change is already putting food security at risk. Rising temperatures and extreme events, such as sudden droughts and floods, mean that it will be even harder to […]
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Mapping crops to improve food security
The following article was jointly written byIFPRI researchers Weston Anderson and Liangzhi You from the Environmental and Production Technologies Division (EPTD) and Evgeniya Anisimova, communications specialist for the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM). It originally appeared on PIM’s blog. In the era of big data, unmanned drones, and satellite remote sensing, our knowledge of crop growing locations remains surprisingly limited. We have even […]
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Bridging the divide between women and men farmers in Ethiopia
The following article was jointly written by Sarah McMullan from IFPRI’s Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division and Caitlin Kieran from the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets. Women make up about half of the labor force in Ethiopia. While their contributions are plentiful, women and girls face discrimination when accessing —and making decisions regarding— education, agricultural information and inputs, land, and other assets […]
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Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) Conference focuses on growth, trade in Africa
The following is a slightly modified version of a story that was originally published on IFPRI’s Food Security Portal. The last ten years have witnessed incredible economic and agricultural growth in Africa. Between 2000 and 2010, the continent was home to six of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. However, can this growth continue in a sustainable, […]
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Can the US Farm Bill and EU Common Agricultural Policy address 21st century global food security?
With the recent passage of both the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in the European Union and the Farm Bill in the United States, the EU and US are headed down “divergent paths” in the way their agricultural policies support their own farmers. Nevertheless, both policies feature large public expenditures towards farm subsidies. What type of […]
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Introducing Yemen Spatial
Yemen ranks among the ten most food-insecure countries globally and has child malnutrition rates of nearly sixty percent, the highest in the Arab World. These two figures underscore the country’s future social and economic development challenges. Yemen Spatial, an online food security mapping and charting tool, was launched was launched last week in Sana’a at […]
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A world without hunger
At the recent Berlin launch of IFPRI’s Global Food Policy Report, IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan said eradicating hunger by 2025 is an important ethical and economic goal—and one that can be achieved. Five expert panelists and more than 100 attendees gathered at the Berlin Representation of the German development organization GIZ to discuss concrete actions to move the world […]
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When wells fail: Farmers’ response to groundwater depletion in India
The following post by Avinash Kishore, Associate Research Fellow at IFPRI , is an excerpted version of a story that originally appeared on the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog as part of their month-long series on Resilience. Groundwater is the mainstay of irrigated agriculture in India. Hundreds of millions of smallholders depend on […]
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Ending world hunger and undernutrition by 2025
The following post by IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan was originally published on Humanitas Global Development’s Hunger and Undernutrition blog. Hunger and undernutrition can be eliminated by 2025. Meeting this aspirational target is an immense but not insurmountable challenge, and it needs to receive adequate attention in the post-2015 development agenda. The world has made some headway in achieving the Millennium […]
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Commentary – Resilient Smallholder Farming Systems Are Vital for Global Food Security and Nutrition
The following post by IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan was originally published on the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Global Food for Thought blog. This post is part of a series produced by The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, marking the occasion of its fifth Global Food Security Symposium 2014 in Washington, D.C., which was held on May 22. The growing incidence and […]