A recent IFPRI blog pointed to the perils of COVID-19 ravaging rural areas in second and third waves.

I am honored to write the preface for the Southasiadisaster.net issue on “Agriculture, Gender and COVID-19: Impact and Recovery”.

As the impacts of the COVID-19 continue to be felt across the world, the need to address the vulnerabilities of the poor and marginalized is heightened.

Every year 27 million babies are born in India. At any time, there is a cohort of over 50 million children under two years old.

Sanctions - cutting financial aid, blocking access to assets, and  reversing investment flows - imposed on Myanmar, lasted more than a decade. What were the country's coping strategies?

Insights 5.1 - feature article on designing safety net programs that work

The United Nations declared 2014 the International Year of Family Farming. Although many forms of production were once family-based, agriculture is now one of the few that are still dominated by families.

Recent experience has shown that as countries get richer, nutritional status does not necessarily improve.

A central part of IFPRI’s mission is to provide policy solutions for ending hunger and malnutrition. This mission implies that we know the size and scope of the hunger problem around the world.