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New research examines how personal preferences and real-world conditions shape people's economic decisions.

As famine grips four countries in Africa, an IFPRI panel discusses how to blunt its impact and head off future humanitarian disasters.

Nigeria’s Vanguard covered the 2017 Global Food Policy Report launch event in Abuja. The article focused on the event’s central theme of food insecurity in a country experiencing rapid urbanization and continuing malnutrition. Director General Shenggen Fan stressed the need for the federal government to invest in agricultural research in order to maximize agricultural productivity.

Can Malawi's economy, dominated by agriculture, provide enough quality jobs for a fast-growing, better-educated population? 

The Thomson Reuters Foundation published an article on food security in North Korea, which highlighted the Global Hunger Index. The country is facing severe food shortages because of an extreme drought. The article cites the GHI findings that in 2016 two in every five people in North Korea were undernourished. The article ran in 17 […]

India Spend, a nonprofit public interest journalism platform, published an opinion article by IFPRI Project Manager Vartika Singh on C-section rates in India. Singh highlights the regional disparity of very high C-section rates and very low C-section rates because of information asymmetry, where some regions over-treat, while others under-treat. Singh argues that the country needs smarter healthcare […]

A new paper outlines the gaps and opportunities in research on climate, gender, and food systems.

IFPRI senior research fellow Joe Glauber was quoted in a story from the Washington Post about the connection between trade and nutrition. The article looks at how trade agreements, most notably NAFTA, have impacted the production and consumption of processed unhealthy foods, such as high-fructose corn syrup. Dr. Glauber argues that direct investment and advertising […]

How population growth will challenge efforts to end hunger and build sustainable food systems.

IFPRI congratulates Akinwumi Adesina on being named the recipient of the 2017 World Food Prize.

A new report maps synergies and potential conflicts between the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

How to scale up a successful nutrition communications and education program.

Lessons from Bangladesh and Ethiopia on how to build reslience into food systems.

One of the Institute's key collaborators is the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID), which has served as a strategic and collaborative donor and partner to IFPRI for more than 30 years. 

Paul Dorosh, Division Director of IFPRI’s Development Strategy and Governance Division, authored a piece in Media Planet’s Impacting Our Future. His article analyzed how countries vulnerable to famine and chronic hunger can learn from the successes of Bangladesh and Ethiopia is preventing famine. The piece was part of a collection that ran as a special feature […]

IFPRI extends sincere and enthusiastic congratulations to Akinwumi Adesina on being named the recipient of the 2017 World Food Prize. President Adesina was selected for the prize for his “breakthrough achievements as Minister of Agriculture of Nigeria and his critical role in the development of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA),” according […]

The Hindu Business Line reported that IFPRI has appointed Mahendra Dev to vice-chairman of the board of trustees. Dev, who currently serves as the director and vice-chancellor of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) in Mumbai, has dedicated his career to agriculture development, poverty and public policy, and food security. He has been an […]

The urban poor depend on local markets and street vendors to feed their families, yet governments are indifferent and sometimes hostile to this essential economic activity.