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Some 2 billion people suffer from hidden hunger caused by infections and diets lacking in essential micronutrients such as vitamin A, iron, and zinc.

One in nine people on the planet are chronically undernourished, according to the 2015 Global Hunger Index (GHI) released this week by IFPRI, Welthungerhilfe, and Concern Worldwide.

Rumor has it that women are naturally the more environmentally conscious sex. As farmers, mothers, and keepers of the earth, they are the ones who selflessly care for the planet and will bear disproportionate burden as it is degraded.

Speakers: Anna Marie Ball, Manager, Africa Regional Partnerships & Strategic Alliances, HarvestPlus | Howarth Bouis, Director, HarvestPlus | Namukolo Covic, Research Coordinator in the Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division, International Food Policy Research Institute | Mahabub Hossain, Advisor to the Executive Director, BRAC & Member of the Global Panel. Biofortfied nutritious food crops are now […]

The new Global Hunger Index is out.  This annual report from Concern, Welt Hunger Hilfe and IFPRI measures hunger.

Opening remarks: H.E. David Donoghue, Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Nations Speakers: Alex de Waal, Executive Director, World Peace Foundation Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University | Aine Fay, President and Chief Operating Officer, Concern Worldwide | Gerald Bourke, Senior Communications Officer, World Food Programme | Summer Allen, Research Coordinator, […]

19 South, East, and Southeast Asian countries included in the reportTimor-Leste, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and North Korea have the highest hunger levels in Asia Key Findings and Trends Global Hunger Index Background The 2015 Global Hunger Index (GHI) is calculated for 117 countries for which data are available for four indicators:  GHI scores could not […]

This blogpost, the final in a 4-part series on IFPRI gender research, shares key takeaways from research on themes of: decision making; women’s empowerment; and improving data on gender.

This blog post, part three in a four-part series on IFPRI gender research in the past 20 years, shares key takeaways from research on themes of: groups and social capital; sustainability;

Dr. Raisuddin Ahmed served at IFPRI for 25 years and was the Director of the Markets and Structural Studies division of the Institute before becoming an Emeritus Research Fellow in 2001.  He conducted research on agricultural production, trade, marketing and pricing policies in Asia and Africa and studied the effects of infrastructure and technological policies […]

This blog post, part two in a four-part series on IFPRI gender research in the past 20 years, shares key takeaways from research on themes of: closing gender gaps in agricultural productivity

The following post by Nienke Beintema, Head of the Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI) Program, is part of an ongoing series of blog stories celebrating IFPRI’s 40th anniversary. Each story authored by current and former IFPRI research staff highlights a key research topic through the years from the personal perspective of the researcher. Open […]

38 countries in Africa South of the Sahara included in the reportHunger in the region rated “serious”  Key Findings and Trends Scores among the 117 countries in the report varied widely. Scores of 9.9 or lower denote low hunger; scores between 35.0 and 49.9 denote alarming hunger. This year no countries hit the threshold of […]

Conflicts are strongly associated with severe hunger

In this blog series, we review key takeaways from the last 20 years of IFPRI gender research. This first blog of four explores two early themes of IFPRI gender research

Hosted by the World Food Center at the University of California, Davis and the International Food Policy Research Institute, the conference will address key issues on the global level down to the individual basin scale. It will analyze the extreme case of California, now in its fourth year of drought, as well as the challenges […]

Does agriculture matter for nutrition? Certainly, the amount and quality of food produced in a food system, the availability of that food, and its price affect the types and quantities of food people eat.