The Washington Post published an article framing food consumption through the lens of global production growth and climate change. The article included research from Senior Research Fellow Keith Wiebe that provides options for keeping the food system …
October 5, Washington, D.C.: The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced a five-year extension of the Innovation Laboratory for Small Scale Irrigation (ILSSI), which will continue critical research from IFPRI and partners on imp…
Washington D.C.: Increasing irrigation efficiency through irrigation technologies alone is failing to reduce water consumption and, paradoxically, may even be making water scarcity worse, a major new study has found. The research – published in Scien…
China Science Daily amplified findings by IFPRI's Research Fellow, Wei Zhang, regarding the economic benefit Ladybugs have on cotton farmers. Zhang argued in her research paper that Ladybugs are a natural pest control, and that consistent use of pesti…
The South China Morning Post summarized research on the mirid bug and rising temperatures in China.
The Science Development Network summarizes Wei Zhang's findings on the impact of ladybeetles on agriculture.
Representative Villafuerte introduced a proposal for a carbon tax, based on recent IFPRI research
In an op-ed for The Financial Express, Avinash Kishore writes Indian farmers are digging themselves into a deeper hole, by looking deeper for groundwater as levels fall because of over-reliance.
The Economist argues that most ‘abundant’ land available in Africa is concentrated in a few countries, & in the hands of big businesses elsewhere. But IFPRI's Ephraim Nkonya is optimistic.
by Shenggen Fan Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) August 24, 2015 –Washington, D.C. Water not only quenches our thirst, but is at the very foundation of our ability to feed the world. About 84 percent of global consum…