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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 […]
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Hindsight is 20/20, can we give foresight prescription lenses?
There are many challenges confronting decision makers in building robust and effective policies. They must balance pressing short-term needs with long-run challenges. They must confront these varying demands while facing imperfect knowledge of the complex systems (i.e. the economy, the environment, etc.) in which their policies will have impact. Above all, they also face the […]
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Evaluating Nairobi: Impacts on trade, food security, and development
In December 2015, the World Trade Organization reached an agreement on the Nairobi Package, the latest set of rules governing global trade. The agreement represents some progress on several major agricultural and food issues that have held up previous negotiations, including export subsidies, food aid, public stockholding for food security purposes, special safeguard measures for […]
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IFPRI and the European Commission: Partnering towards food and nutrition security
On June 15-16, 2016, the European Commission (EC) will host the 10th European Development Days to bring the development community together to share ideas and experiences aimed at addressing the world’s most pressing challenges.