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Malawi Broadcasting Corporation published an article reporting that at a recent conference, President Dr Lazarus Chakwera said that despite Malawi’s economy being hit hard by local and foreign economic forces the gross domestic product (GDP) is projected to grow from 0.9% in 2020 to 3.8 percent in 2021 season. One of the presentations given at the conference was by […]

Stanford Social Innovation Review published an article on how small and medium NGOs and social enterprises can help the public sector successfully adopt and scale their innovations.  India’s adoption of a video-based, agricultural extension program pioneered by the NGO Digital Green is helping to achieve these goals. The study supports the idea that scaling through government is […]

Bistandsaktuelt (Norway) reported that damage to crops as a result of climate change means that 67,286 small farmers in Malawi have received insurance payments totaling $ 2.4 million. This is a new form of cooperation to strengthen farmers’ ability to adapt to climate change.  In a study from 2011, IFPRI-Malawi pointed out that since 2005 the World Bank has […]

The Nation (Malawi) published the latest findings from IFPRI from the October 2021 Monthly Maize Market Report. The report found that retail maize prices have remained highest in the southern region despite some notable price declines in October.  The Southern Region’s prices averaged K166 per kilogram, four percent higher than last year. 

Virtual Event: Nov 16, 2021 – 08:00 AM to 10:00 AM EST. This policy dialogue explores the gender-differentiated impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on men and women in rural areas of selected countries in sub-Saharan Africa. 

Times of India published an article stating that food secure future is an important issue not only for the UAE but also for India. IFPRI, in fact, warns that changing climate, growing global population rising food prices, and environmental stressors will have significant and uncertain impacts on food security in the coming decades. However, industry experts and policymakers […]

MW Nation (Malawi) published an article stating that Malawians will from this month dig deep into their pockets to access tap water following a decision by the country’s water boards to raise tariffs by an average of 52 percent from November 1. While the increasing tariffs will add costs to consumers, the move will help improve the […]

MSN Canada published an article stating that US $6 billion from Elon Musk is not nearly enough to solve the problem of world hunger. The richest person in the world has conflated two issues — the immediate need of financial assistance for those on the brink of starvation, with the endemic problem of food security issues facing hundreds of […]

Daily Star (Bangladesh) published an article about Dhaka’s development and associated challenges and how they should be a good example for growing cities that need to ensure sustainable urbanization. Planned development of secondary cities can salvage the capital from drowning from the effects of mass immigration and maintain its potential of offering a good quality of life to its […]

Philippines Government published an article stating that the Department of Agriculture (DA) said the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL) has resulted in increased local production and yield, affordable and stable supply of rice, and more benefits for farmers. Studies by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), International Rice Research Institute, and IFPRI (Distributional impacts of the rice […]

E-Jewish Philanthropy published an article stating that the UN World Food Programme Exec Director David Beasley said he’s optimistic that the outcome of his Twitter exchange with billionaire Elon Musk might mean more help from the wealthy for the world’s poor, but experts are divided about the wisdom of having a policy debate in public and on social media, report Stephanie […]

Phys.org published an article on how researchers at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, IFPRI, and CGIAR have produced modeled projections of 21st-century changes in seasonal surface air temperature and precipitation for South Africa that systematically and comprehensively account for uncertainties in how Earth and socioeconomic systems behave and co-evolve. Presented […]

Discussion of the history and wealth of gender knowledge that has been generated to date by CGIAR agricultural & environmental research. 

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Virtual Event: Nov 15, 2021 – 07:00 AM to Nov 17, 2021 – 10:30 AM EST. IFPRI is participating in the virtual 2021 ReSAKSS Conference. 

Virtual Event: Nov 22, 2021 – 09:30 AM to 11:00 AM EST. This special event will present experiences and insights gained over four decades of research, including reflections on academia and development in Africa. 

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Foreign Policy Research Institute published a blog post stating that despite contributing only a minute amount of global greenhouse gas emissions, the African continent suffers the deleterious effects of climate change to a disproportionate degree. The heavy carbon emitters, like China and the United States, have a moral obligation to help the nations of Africa, particularly the […]

USDA.gov announced that more than 50 organizations and countries have officially declared their support for the Coalition on Sustainable Productivity Growth for Food Security and Resource Conservation (SPG) Coalition, which the United States launched at the United Nations Food Systems Summit in September. IFPRI is one of the partner organizations.

3News (Ghana) published an article stating that optimal health and nutrition during adolescence can have lasting impacts on the adolescent, and even generations after them. This is particularly important for adolescent girls who have a high risk of transmitting malnutrition and poor health to their children, and grandchildren, and thereby perpetuate a vicious cycle of malnutrition and […]