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MSN India published an article stating that providing free foodgrain to India’s poor has been the mainstay of the Narendra Modi government’s Covid-19 relief package for the vulnerable sections of Indian society and has seen multiple extensions as the pandemic continued its devastating spread across India. Yet this scheme has seen significant changes when it comes to the allocation […]

Ways to craft incentives to encourage more giving.

IFPRI is participating in several sessions of the Pre-Summit of the UN Food Systems Summit, which will set the stage for the culminating global event in September by bringing together diverse actors from around the world to leverage the power of food systems to deliver progress on all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Demand, Innovate […]

Virtual Event: July 28, 2021 – 08:00 AM to 9:30 EDT. This webinar will highlight the differences between poverty and malnutrition targeting and mapping. 

Virtual Event: July 20, 2021 – 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM EDT. This webinar will discuss how satellite remote sensing offers an inexpensive, timely solution to monitor conditions on the Earth's surface. 

Virtual Event: AUG 6, 2021 – 07:00 AM to 09:30 AM EDT. The objective of this dialogue is to come to a common understanding of how extension can contribute to the SDGs and adapt to future needs. 

A crucial resource for improving food security, nutrition, and long-term prosperity.

Supporting food system transformation by redirecting farm subsidies that can reduce carbon footprints, boost resilience, improve food & nutrition security, and enhance poverty reduction & equity. 

Better management of shared natural resources can boost food system transformation.

New Delhi: Women who received free meals in primary school have children with improved linear growth, according to a new study by researchers at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).  India is home to the highest number of undernourished children and the largest school feeding program in the world—the Mid-Day Meal (MDM) scheme—yet long-term program benefits on nutrition are unknown. […]

UNFSS; Climate Change Adaptation; Rising Food Prices; and more

The Population Council conducts research to address critical health and development issues. In the developing world, the Population Council works with governments and civil society organizations to overcome obstacles to health and development. The Council also uses state-of-the-art biomedical science to develop new contraceptives and products to prevent the transmission of HIV.

The broad function of the Ministry is to improve food security and champion agricultural development through local production, reduction of import bill, diversification of the sector, value addition, employment, promotion of consumption of local foodstuff, as well as establishment of agricultural based poverty eradication projects. The ministry implements its mandate through six departments and one […]

 Washington, DC: In order to prevent the impacts of climate change from pushing an additional 78 million people into chronic hunger by 2050, annual global investments in agricultural research and development will need to increase by US $2 billion (or by 120%) between 2015 and 2050, according to a new study from researchers from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). The study provides new insights into the costs of a […]

Virtual Event: July 13, 2021 – 09:30 AM to 11:00 AM EDT. This event will bring together a group of experts to discuss options for mobilizing and utilizing funding to finance food systems transformation. 

Virtual Event: July 8, 2021 – 7:00 AM to 8:30 AM EDT. IFPRI South Asia will deliberate the challenges that the pandemic has highlighted on the vulnerabilities that the region must tackle to ensure a better food system for future generations. 

The Nation (Malawi) published an article stating that the Ministry of Gender, Community Development, and Social Welfare has rolled out the third phase of emergency cash transfers under the Covid-19 urban cash transfer intervention targeting 74 150 urban beneficiaries. The initiative targets low-income semi-urban locations based on assessment of the cities’ socio-economic profiles and household vulnerability levels. […]

Grupo Cultivar (Brazil) published an article on Bayer, IFPRI, and the Zurich Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) announcing the development of a collaborative study aimed at helping agriculture to develop and implement new solutions to reduce impacts on biodiversity. This is the first global partnership to focus on large-scale crops such as wheat, corn, and soybeans. Senior research fellow Wei […]

International Center for Investigative Reporting published an article on how the biting effects of climate change on the global community took a bad twist for the smallholder women farmers in the state with a sudden stop in rainfall in 2020, leading to poor harvest for many of them. In an AGRODEP project paper, The potential […]