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Over the past few decades, economics research has gone through a kind of credibility revolution.

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Last month I had the privilege of giving the opening keynote at the 5th annual LCIRAH conference. 

HarvestPlus has opened a facility in Bangladesh to support faster breeding of zinc rice and train scientists in the use of advanced screening techniques. The X-ray fluorescence (XRF) laboratory center is located at HarvestPlus’ regional office in Bogra.

Post by HarvestPlus director Howarth Bouis 

Two recent discussion papers offer new possible explanations for the puzzling phenomenon of agricultural growth in SSA.

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The Third International Conference on Financing

The following story was originally published on the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) website. Platforms for collective goals Periodically, the African Union (AU) releases declarations by the Heads of AU Member States on national commitments towards collective goals. That is—coordinated efforts by individual African nations towards common development goals for […]

Although we have successfully reached the Millennium Development Goal of halving extreme poverty and hunger at the global level, an estimated 795 million people continue to suffer from hunger while two billion suffer from micronutrient deficiencies. Making our food systems more nutritious, resilient, and inclusive can significantly improve the lives of millions of people living […]

The following blog story was originally posted on the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) blog. This month on the Gender-Nutrition Idea Exchange, IFPRI Research Fellows Melissa Hidrobo, Tanguy Bernard, Rahul Rawat, and Agnes Le Port relate findings on how contract design can influence nutrition and milk production, mediated by intrahousehold gender dynamics. Designing an experimental incentive […]

IFPRI extends its heartfelt congratulations to BRAC Founder and Chairperson Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, who was just announced as this year’s World Food Prize laureate. Sir Fazle has worked tirelessly for more than 40 years to tackle poverty and hunger in Bangladesh and beyond, and has been instrumental in helping Bangladesh meet the Millennium Development […]

My 20^th anniversary of working at IFPRI coincides with the 20^th anniversary of the UN World Conference on Women in Beijing

The following story by Cheryl Doss was originally published on the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) EnGenderingData blog. Identifying opportunities for productive investments in women The widely cited “fact” that women in Africa provide 60-80 percent of the labor in agriculture is the latest of a set of claims that have been […]

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Bad weather in SSA increases the spread of HIV, according to a study published in the June 2015 issue of the Economic Journal.

The grain teff has been consumed as a staple in Ethiopia for centuries but is little known outside the country. Now, researchers are training their attention on this understudied crop.