Related Blogs: Poverty, Health, and Nutrition (PHND)

The following post by IFPRI collaborator Hitomi Komatsu was originally published on the Agrilinks site.

Social protection programs−broadly defined as initiatives offering cash or in-kind assistance to the poor−have expanded rapidly in recent decades, now covering an estimated two billion people living in developing countries.

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

For decades, the agricultural sector has been tasked with helping to curb undernutrition and reduce poverty levels, especially in rural areas in many developing countries.

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.

Poor nutrition can cause young children to become stunted, that is, to be too short for their age. An estimated 159 million children under 5 worldwide are stunted due to chronic malnutrition.

The following blog story was originally posted on the CGIAR Research Program on

My 20^th anniversary of working at IFPRI coincides with the 20^th anniversary of the UN World Conference on Women in Beijing

This is a post by IFPRI senior researcher Lawrence Haddad

This blog story by IFPRI senior researcher Lawrence Haddad was originally posted on his