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Walking the wire on biotechnology at FAO
This week, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) hosted an International Symposium on The Role of Agricultural Biotechnologies in Sustainable Food Systems and Nutrition at its headquarters in Rome. It has all the trappings and gravitas of a UN meeting: member-nation delegates, placards bearing their countries’ names, earphones streaming simultaneous translations […]
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Food and nutrition security programs: Too focused on agriculture?
Food and nutrition security (FNS) is a multi-dimensional concept, spanning the agriculture, trade, health, and social sectors. Often, however, policies only address FNS through one lens: that of food production.
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“A war against hunger:” 2015 Global Hunger Index illustrates progress, challenges, and the hunger-conflict connection
Panelists at the Washington, DC launch of the 2015 Global Hunger Index (GHI) offered sobering facts and heartbreaking stories, but also cause for cautious optimism. The 2015 Global Hunger Index—the tenth in an annual series produced by IFPRI, Concern Worldwide, and Welthungerhilfe that measures hunger globally, regionally, and nationally for 117 countries—shows progress, with a […]
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The case for investment in restoring degraded lands
Land degradation occurs in all agroecologies around the world, but it can be reversed. (Originally published on the Agrilinks site).
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Encouraging adoption of better seed technologies: What works?
Reduced or eliminated yield gap, would have profound effects on smallholder incomes
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Realizing the potential of a homestead food production program
Researchers from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) completed a first-of-its-kind rigorous evaluation of an integrated agriculture and nutrition program in Burkina Faso, a country where child undernutrition is common and the prevalence of anemia among children under five is 92 percent, the highest in the world.
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How will crop yields change with an uncertain climate future?
IFPRI researchers recently received some attention for research on how climate change will affect croplands in the future. Using HADGEM2, a climate prediction model, Research Fellow Richard Robertson was able to predict what kinds of yields we might see under climate change for potatoes, rice, wheat and corn in 2050. What does the model show […]
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Ethiopia’s 2015 drought: No reason for a famine
Five major policy actions based on past experiences and the current context.
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2015 World Soil Day: Celebrating an underappreciated resource
Think dirt doesn’t matter? Think again. All life on this planet depends on soil to survive. This is just one of many facts Shahidur Rashid, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Institute, shared in a video to celebrate World Soil Day. “If you think love is unconditional giving, soil has been doing […]
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New study links poverty to heightened levels of aflatoxin exposure
Many of the foods people depend on most for their sustenance can carry a silent killer: aflatoxins. These naturally occurring fungal toxins contaminate food crops, such as maize, groundnuts, tree nuts, and a range of other produce.