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IFPRI is participating extensively in the World Bank’s 20th annual Land and Poverty Conference in Washington, DC under the theme “Catalyzing Innovation.” The Land and Poverty conference presents the latest research and innovations in policies and good practice on land governance around the world. This conference has become one of the largest international events on land […]

IFPRI is partnering with The Chicago Council on Global Affairs for the 2019 symposium under the theme,  “From Scarcity to Security: Managing Water for a Nutritious Food Future”. By 2050, over one half of the world’s population could be at risk due to stress on water resources. How will we grow an adequate quantity—and quality—of food […]

Shahidur Rashid succeeds Pramod Joshi as the new Director for South Asia based in New Delhi

Forbes India wrote an article on India’s high rates of air pollution. Research conducted by Research Fellows Samuel Scott and Avinash Kishore as well as Senior Research Fellow Devesh Roy was included in the piece, referring to crop burning in North India that has negative health and financial outcomes for the country.

Research fellow Anjani Kumar explains to Hindu Businessline why farmers with access to institutional credit earn more than farmers dependent on credit from informal sources such as loan sharks. 

The Hindu published an editorial about India’s Integrated Child Development Services intervention program. The article included research conducted by Senior Research Fellow Purnima Menon and Research Fellow Kalyani Raghunathan that pointed to the country’s poorest sections of the population—including women—who were left out of the program.

A new book explores why the road to ending hunger and malnutrition runs through agriculture.

The pollution generated by crop residue fires in northern India imposes a heavy burden on urban residents.

Washington, D.C.: Over the past decade, Ghana’s tilapia farming has experienced tremendous growth in production, contributing to improved incomes for the industry and animal protein for consumers (according to a 2018 study by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)). But loses of over 100 tonnes of cage-farmed fish in the Lake Volta region in […]

Research refutes the stock critiques of transfer programs.

The Daily Sun wrote an article about IFPRI’s policy workshop titled Agricultural Transformation in Bangladesh: Evidence on Biotechnology and Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture. Senior Research Fellow Akhter Ahmed was present to share the impact of the BT Brinjal Technology in Bangladesh. The event was amplified by numerous Bangladeshi outlets.

Research in Kyrgyzstan shows that individual ambition and women's empowerment are linked.

A new report from the InterAcademy Partnership explores how the sciences can be better applied to achieve regional and global food security.

2019 Global Food Policy Report; India’s Air Pollution; New Anti-Microbial Resistance Hub; Biofortified Cassava and More

Over 1.9 billion people benefit from social safety nets around the world, however effects on intra-household dynamics and gender implications of large-scale programming is rarely rigorously evaluated. This event will focus on growing evidence linking cash transfers to intimate partner violence in low- and middle-income countries and features research from the Cash Transfer and Intimate […]

Foodtank released an op-ed written by Deputy Director of Environment and Production Technology Division Claudia Ringler who commented on the recent findings of the EAT-Lancet Report, calling for greater understanding the links between water and food.

Telegraph published an op-ed by Research Fellows Samuel Scott and Avinash Kishore as well as Senior Research Fellow Devesh Roy who called attention to respiratory infections being the leading cause of chronic disease in children globally and of death in developing countries. The article explored the first-of-its-kind study linking crop residue burning and acute respiratory infection, estimating its […]

Wei Zhang explains how and why researchers, development practitioners, and policy makers should act to stop dramatically declining insect numbers and protect natural habitats.