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Experimental games test efficacy of subsidies to encourage farmers to invest in natural ecosystem services
An interactive game offers insights into how farmers cooperate – and sometimes don't – moving to ecosystem-based pest control.
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Informing development strategies in Latin America and the Caribbean
For more than three decades, IFPRI’s research and collaborations in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region have produced rigorous evidence leading to innovative market and trade policies and effective social protection and nutritional programs. In the 1980s and 1990s, IFPRI’s research in the region centered on global and regional issues, particularly on the role […]
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Reach, benefit, or empower: Clarifying gender strategies of development projects
Development programs should not assume merely addressing gender is enough to empower women: a more nuanced approach is needed.
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How to revitalize Pakistan’s agricultural sector and rural economy
A new book argues that reforms to agriculture can reduce poverty and fuel national economic growth.
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Increasing agricultural mechanization in Latin America will take more coordination, investment
Training, policy, and incentives can help systematically upgrade the region's farming equipment, IFPRI-IICA seminar participants say.
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Taxing red meat may cut emissions and disease
Targeted taxes on carbon-intensive foods such as beef can help combat climate change while improving public health.
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How much would it cost to end hunger worldwide by 2030?
A new brief shows it would take a fairly modest amount – $11 billion annually from donors and governments – to do the job. How that figure was calculated.
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Cash transfers and health: It matters when you measure, and it matters how many health care workers are around to provide services
A close look at health-based conditional cash transfers in Tanzania reveals important nuances in how such increasingly popular programs work.
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Building capacity for food policy research: Which tools work best?
A look at IFPRI's efforts to strengthen national food policy research efforts, and their impacts on policy, around the world.
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Making politics work to meet the SDGs
Is politics an obstacle or a means to achieving the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals? At a recent IFPRI event, “Making Politics Work to Meet the SDGs,” Senior World Bank Economist Stuti Khemani argued that politics may be flawed, but paying attention to political incentives is the only way to achieve results. “The selection and sanctioning of […]