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The article “Effect of a Nutrition Intervention during Early Childhood on Economic Productivity in Guatemalan Adults” by senior research fellow John Hoddinott and his co-authors, received the 2009 CGIAR Science Award in the Outstanding Scientific Article category. The article, published in the Lancet journal, shows that feeding young children a caloric, micronutrient-enriched nutritional supplement leads to significant increases […]

The first Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD) 2010 is being held in Montpellier, France from 28-31 March 2010. GCARD is organized by the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) in collaboration with the Consortium and Independent Science and Partnership Council (now being formed) of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). For information about the conference […]

IFPRI Director General, Shenggen Fan, announced today that Professor Margaret McMillan will be the director of the Development Strategy and Governance Division, starting June 14, 2010. She is currently an associate professor of economics at Tufts University and a Faculty Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2005, she was named the William […]

Lack of access to clean water–a harsh reality in most developing countries–is a source of misery for the poor. In large areas of Sub-Saharan Africa, Oceania, the Caribbean, and Asia, the only water available to millions for drinking, cooking, farming, and bathing is increasingly polluted by a dangerous cocktail of bacteria, viruses, and chemicals. Ironically, […]

An International Conference hosted by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Universidad del Pacifico Asia and Latin America have made great strides in economic development during the last 30 to 40 years, thanks to bold and innovative reforms. However, both regions still face great development challenges. Poverty, inequality, and food insecurity still persist. […]

The Economist magazine, citing work by IFPRI research fellow Xiaobo Zhang, reports that China’s skewed sex ratio is having some unexpected consequences. “It has probably increased China’s savings rate,” the magazine says, because parents with a single son save to increase his chances of attracting a wife in the country’s ultra-competitive marriage market. Zhang and fellow researcher Shang-Jin Wei […]

Dialogue with Clemens Breisinger, Research Fellow, Development Strategy and Governance Division: Why is IFPRI now focusing on Yemen? Yemen has been hard hit by the recent global food crisis and ongoing global recession due to its high dependency on oil exports and food imports. Recent IFPRI research shows an eight percent increase since 2006 in the number of people living in poverty. In […]

Violent conflict in multiethnic societies in the developing world is a pre-eminent problem of the 21st century. Horizontal inequalities among religious or ethnic groups, in political, social, economic or cultural dimensions, are an important catalyst of such conflicts. This seminar will identify policies to reduce such inequalities and discuss how to routinely incorporate them into […]

A policy panel discussion in conjunction with the IFPRI-University of Kiel research workshop, “Inside the black box: The political economy of local governments and their role in rural development” Abstract Decentralization, by “bringing government closer to the people,” has a unique potential to improve the provision of public services, such as water, health, education, and […]

Organized by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, DC and the University of Kiel (EU-E-VAL Project), Kiel, Germany Background and objectives The last decades have seen a worldwide trend towards decentralization, both in developing and transition countries. By “bringing government closer to the people”, decentralization has a particular promise for reducing poverty and […]

Risk and poverty are inextricably linked. Poor people often live in environments characterized by high weather and disease risk, and it is poor households that have the fewest tools to deal with drought, floods, and disease when they occur. Breaking the link between risk and poverty by insuring poor people both lessens the affliction of […]

The climate change negotiations in Copenhagen: A. failed miserably, B. were rescued at the last minute, or C. resulted in a promising set of new initiatives that will ultimately lead to a binding international treaty. William Hohenstein (USDA), David Waskow (Oxfam), and Gerald Nelson (IFPRI) will provide perspectives on which of these three outcomes ultimately […]

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A new report from the World Food Programme (WFP) – co-published by IFPRI – Climate Change and Hunger: Responding to the Challenge details the profoundly negative future impacts of climate change on hunger and malnutrition rates in developing countries, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa. To combat these effects, negotiators currently meeting in Copenhagen to discuss an international climate agreement must support […]

The financial and economic crash of 2008 was immediately succeeded by a global recession that is leading to significant paradigm shifts in the global policy agenda. It has slowed, and in some cases reversed, the progress in output growth, trade, foreign investments, and poverty and hunger reduction. Moreover, the financial crisis emerged on the shoulders […]

Learning from successes in agricultural development is now more urgent than ever. Progress in feeding the world’s billions has slowed, while the challenge of feeding its future millions remains enormous and is subject to new uncertainties in the global food and agricultural systems. The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), with support from The Bill […]

Hosted By the APPG Agriculture and Food for Development Learning from successes in agricultural development is now more urgent than ever. Progress in feeding the world’s billions has slowed, while the challenge of feeding its future millions remains enormous and is subject to new uncertainties in the global food and agricultural systems. The International Food […]

The 2009 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report, prepared by IFPRI, Welthungerhilfe, and Concern, emphasizes the fundamental role that gender equality plays in the reduction and ultimate elimination of hunger. This seminar will highlight some key findings of the 2009 GHI report, and identify global trends and countries that have performed well in terms of reducing […]

HarvestChoice, a joint initiative managed by IFPRI’s Global Food Systems research program and the International Science and Technology Practice and Policy (InSTePP) at the University of Minnesota, released the latest version of its Spatial Production Allocation Model (SPAM) earlier this week. SPAM 2000 Version 3 provides estimates of crop production, area and yield for 20 major crops that together account for nearly […]

Learning from successes in agricultural development is now more urgent than ever. Progress in feeding the world’s billions has slowed, while the challenge of feeding its future millions remains enormous and is subject to new uncertainties in the global food and agricultural systems. In late 2008, IFPRI, with support from The Bill & Melinda Gates […]