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The objective of this forum is to convene key actors who engage with or support the data value chain for nutrition in the West Africa region, in order to:

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on Philadelphia residents who receive annual checks, often based on nothing more than their family connections to farms in states far afield from Pennsylvania. Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber asked, “Will we spend public dollars for poverty or some really large farm? I’m surprised this isn’t getting more attention.”

Africa Agribusiness reported on mechanization on a new small-scale agricultural machinery leasing scheme in the Amhara region, Ethiopia. A joint IFPRI and Ethiopia’s Central Statistical Agency 2015 survey shows that only 9% of farmers in Ethiopia use machine power to plow their land, harvest their output, or thresh their crops. This new scheme that offers farmers and […]

Ecofriend.com published an article on air pollution and cognitive abilities. An IFPRI study conducted by team head Senior Research Fellow Xiaobo Zhang discovered that the math and verbal scores declined with increasing exposure to pollution, and the decline was more pronounced in elderly, less educated men. Air pollution took a bigger toll on verbal scores […]

South Africa Network reported on the “Cash for Nutrition” program. The Social Fund for Development in collaboration with IFPRI designed and initiated the impact evaluation of the program. The program provides beneficiary women with children under five with one year of monthly cash transfers and nutritional training sessions led by locally recruited Community Health Volunteers […]

A new study finds the EAT-Lancet Commission reference diet—aimed at improving nutrition and global sustainability—is too expensive for many people around the world.

How the early 19th century naturalist and adventurer presaged today's understanding of ecoystem management.

Financial Express (Bangladesh) reported on the IFPRI study, Transfers, behavior change communication, and intimate partner violence: Post-program evidence from rural Bangladesh, The study found that direct cash transfers coupled with behavior change communication (BCC) can reduce violence against women inflicted by their partners by more than a quarter. Research Fellow Shalini Roy stated, “The study […]

Clarin (Argentina) published an article on what is needed in the future to feed populations while confronting climate change obstacles. IFPRI’s Global Food Policy Report 2019 was quoted regarding 2050 agricultural scenarios).

PressePortal reported on the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture. IFPRI Director General Johan Swinnen who attended the forum stated that African countries are getting better at meeting EU standards. “Diversification could significantly improve integration into world markets.” Republished in various outlets including FinanzNachrichten, Ad Hoc, BankKaufman, Nachriten-Heute.net 

Cenadin, AC reported on current food systems are failing consumers and the necessity to convert our healthy food system, which allows the environmental sustainability of the planet and contributes to social equity. IFPRI’s Director of Latin America & the Caribbean Eugenio Díaz Bonilla highlighted the joint work with FAO. “Food systems are related to a huge number of issues, it […]

South China Morning Post reported on the US-China Phase One plan of the trade negotiations. Experts question if the agreement will work. Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber stated, “With a managed trade agreement like this, targets are presumably established, but I suspect that it will mean state trading companies like COFCO will be doing a lot of the buying.” […]

The Morung Express (India) reported on findings from the India Health Report: Nutrition 2015, a report from IFPRI and the Public Health Foundation of India. The report revealed that 42.9% of the total children under the age of five in Meghalaya are stunted (indicative of chronic or cumulative nutritional deprivation in early childhood), while 40.6 children in Assam are found to […]

YLE (Finland) published an article on The Eat-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health and a follow-up study, Affordability of the EAT–Lancet reference diet: A global analysis that found the diet too expensive for as many as one and a half billion people, especially in Africa south of the Sahara and South Asia.  Senior Research Fellow Kalle Hirvonen, one of the coauthors of the Affordability study believes when the population becomes sufficiently wealthy, health […]

Foreign Policy published an article on malnutrition. Malnutrition is passed from one generation to the next between mother and child—unless someone commits to stopping the deadly cycle. A 2019 IFPRI study found that out of 60,000 first-time mothers in India those children born to teenage mothers were smaller and had a lower height-to-weight ratio on […]

St. Louis Today reported on the latest with trade and soybeans. China has agreed to an increase in the amount of farm products it buys from the U.S., but the price of soybeans, historically the largest item on China’s shopping list, has hardly budged. Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber wishes the U.S. and China had spelled out details […]

Reason Online (USA) published an overview article about climate change and various scenarios to deal with an ever-growing population. The article cites the 2016 Global Food Policy Report projection that farmers will have to produce 70 percent more food over the next 30 years to feed everyone on the planet, and analysis that the technology already exists to accomplish that […]

The Herald (Nigeria) published an article on the new partnership between the Delta government and IFPRI to create its new agricultural policy. IFPRI’s mandate is to work with key stakeholders to improve their service delivery, efficiency, and performance.Republished in Pointer News (Nigeria), Blueprint (Ngeria)