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An IPS article covered an IFPRI-facilitated seminar in Cairo on food security and rapid urbanization. Clemens Breisinger, senior research fellow, provided context on the challenges facing the region, which include food import dependency, population growth, and water scarcity.

Suresh Babu, Head of Capacity Strengthening, appeared on CGTN’s The Heat for a special on World Hunger Day. Dr. Babu spoke about the significance of hidden hunger, inefficient micronutrient intake, and how diversifying the biodiversity of a food system can combat nutrient deficiencies.

IFPRI is working with partners to set up a technical network of experts to improve the data on Africa's regional agricultural trade.

A special issue of Global Food Security highlights the importance of narratives in driving progress toward ending hunger and malnutrition.

Bloomberg quoted Director General Shenggen Fan in part two of their series on agriculture in China. The second article focused on China’s global food network, where Dr. Fan elaborated on China’s land acquisition investments in developing countries. The first article can be found here.

Suresh Babu, Head of Capacity Strengthening, authored an op-ed in Reuters about how robust food systems can improve access to food. The article explains that the resilience of food systems relies on political, institutional and agricultural capacities. The article is accompanied by a diagram that shows immediate and underlying factors for food security in three states: before, […]

Ethiopia's coffee trading exchange is thought to better link domestic with global markets. But a new study finds the effects are not so clear-cut.

Inside Sources published an op-ed by senior research fellow Joseph Glauber on the Food for Peace Reform Act, a bill introduced by Bob Corker and Christopher Coons of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Glauber argues that the Act will address two main flaws in US emergency aid policy: food sourcing and cargo preference.

Evidence shows that genetically modified crops cause no human health or environmental harm, and bring substantial benefits to farmers. IFPRI's Avinash Kishore argues the government of India should allow for the use of this new technology.  

Avinash Kishore, research fellow based in IFPRI’s South Asia Office, authored an op-ed in India’s Business Standard on Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee’s decision to approve Dhara Mustard Hybrid 11 for commercial use, and on the larger conversation of the commercialization of genetically modified (GM) crops. Kishore argues in support of GM crop technologies and dispels […]

Emory University Professor Kathryn Yount on emerging ways to systematically assess women’s relative power and position in communities.

Informal markets and street vendors play a critical role in many African cities. In a study of 11 African cities, 70 percent of households regularly purchase their food from informal markets. Danielle Resnick, senior research fellow, appeared on Voice of America’s Africa 54 to discuss how governments can balance between a growing middle class interested […]

India’s Business World wrote an article on the role of agriculture in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The article quoted Director General Shenggen Fan and Director for South Asia P.K. Joshi’s comments that changes to the food system could provide not only greater food yields, but also could cut greenhouse gas emissions. The article […]

New Delhi, India – On Thursday, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Trust for Advancement of Agricultural Sciences, and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research began a two-day international conference in New Delhi on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through agriculture in India.   While India met several of the Millennium Development […]

A new study finds that an oft-praised Malawi fertilizer subsidy program has mixed results for maize farmers.

Sri Lanka’s The Island wrote an article on post harvest loss of fruits and vegetables, and more broadly, about the International Food Policy Research Institute’s cosponsored event, “Emerging Food Safety and Quality Risks in South Asia: Challenges and Opportunities for Sri Lanka,” which featured Minister of Primary Industries Daya Gamage and Director South Asia P.K. […]

A new book examines the diverse reasons behind variable growth rates among seven developing countries.

Shenggen Fan, Director General, and P.K. Joshi, Director for South Asia, authored an op-ed in India’s Financial Express on strengthening rural-urban linkages as the key to achieve Sustainable Development Goals in India. The article highlights the 2017 Global Food Policy Report’s findings on how rapid urbanization presents challenges to rural and urban agriculture and nutrition. […]

Washington, D.C. – The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) announced today the launch of the Ag-Incentives Consortium website, a user-friendly online database facilitated by IFPRI, that aggregates agricultural policy data into an interactive tool for guiding more informed policy. The Ag-Incentives Consortium brings together data from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the […]