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Water management challenges are closely linked to many of the SDGs, especially those relating to poverty reduction, food security, and environmental sustainability. 

Speakers: Moderator: In December 2015, at the 10th World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial conference, 159 WTO members secured the “Nairobi Package” agreement containing important outcomes on the issue of agriculture.  At this seminar, presenters will share highlights of the conference and explore: (i) the role of emerging countries in contributing to global food security; (ii) […]

Panelists at the Washington, DC launch of the 2015 Global Hunger Index (GHI) offered sobering facts and heartbreaking stories, but also cause for cautious optimism. The 2015 Global Hunger Index—the tenth in an annual series produced by IFPRI, Concern Worldwide, and Welthungerhilfe that measures hunger globally, regionally, and nationally for 117 countries—shows progress, with a […]

HarvestChoice researchers summarize new data paradigm in the journal Nature Climate Change.

The following post by Sara Gustafson was originally published on the Food Security Portal. The surge in digital technologies available over the past few decades has transformed virtually every sector of the global economy, and agriculture is no exception. Information and communications technologies (ICTs) such as mobile phones and SMS messaging are changing the way […]

The United Nations General Assembly declared 2016 the International Year of the Pulses. To mark the year, we spoke with P.K. Joshi, IFPRI’s Director for South Asia, about pulses. Joshi has been supporting the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) research portfolio on pulses since 2012. What is a pulse? What […]

Land degradation occurs in all agroecologies around the world, but it can be reversed. (Originally published on the Agrilinks site).

January 22, 2016, Davos, Switzerland – I am honored to be part of the Champions Coalition in support of the Sustainable Development Goal 12.3, which seeks to halve per capita food waste and reduce food losses by 2030. Today, about a third of all food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted on its […]

Essay by Ousmane Badiane, part of a special edition being published in partnership with Foreign Affairs, titled “African Farmers in the Digital Age.” 

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on reducing poverty have been met by many countries, yet many others lag behind and the post-2015 challenge will be the full eradication of poverty and hunger. Many developing countries increasingly recognize that social protection measures are needed to relieve the immediate deprivation of people living in poverty and to […]

IFPRI celebrated its 40th anniversary around the world throughout 2015. Receptions were held in Addis Ababa, Beijing, Dakar, Dhaka, Islamabad, and Lilongwe to mark this momentous occasion. These events were also an opportunity for IFPRI to recognize its many partners and collaborators for their tremendous contributions to work on food and nutrition security over the […]

Reduced or eliminated yield gap, would have profound effects on smallholder incomes

Sustainable growth and inclusive rural transformation require provision of key public goods and services, all of which cost money. 

Summary and video highlights of Rajiv Shah’s remarks at the 25th annual Forman Lecture.

Achieving food security is one of the essential components of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which were adopted in September of last year. While only a few goals specifically mention forestry and other land-based sectors, all 17 depend on healthy and sustainable landscapes for their achievement. Over the past two years, the Global Landscapes […]

While the developing world has made progress in reducing hunger since 2000, the 2015 Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that the level of hunger in developing countries as a group has fallen by 27 percent. Yet the state of hunger in the world remains serious. The Global Hunger Index is a multidimensional measure of hunger […]

Niger is a hot landlocked country, mostly covered by the Sahara desert with a rainy season of only three months.

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Eurasian Center for Food Security (ECFS), the World Bank, and the CGIAR Research Programs on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) and on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) are organizing a conference on the linkages between climate change, agriculture, food systems, social safety net and nutrition outcomes […]

International agricultural trade has been a major headline recently, yet disagreement about the best way to conduct such trade remains widespread.