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How can information be harnessed to improve rural service delivery and governance? The articles in the new special issue of the journal World Development on “Information, Governance, and Rural Service Delivery,” coedited by Katrina Kosec (IFPRI) and Leonard Wantchekon (Princeton University), seek to answer this question.   In this seminar, speakers will give an overview of […]

Ghana’s Business Week reported on the new IFPRI book, Ghana’s Economic and Agricultural Transformation: Past Performance and Future Prospects, co-edited by Danielle Resnick, Xinshen Diao, Peter Hazell, and Shashdhara Kolavalli. The book showed that Ghana’s government spending in agriculture is lower than African standards and falls short of the 10 percent commitment made when Ghana signed its […]

Mongabay (India) reported on children, resilience, and drought. Studying the linkage between climate and child growth is essential because regions and countries will experience more frequent and more severe droughts and floods in the coming years. Senior research fellow Liangzhi You stated that one way to curtail the detrimental effects of climate change  is “Nutritionally diverse […]

Outlook (India) reported on a new study from IFPRI researchers Purnima Menon, Phuong Hong Nguyen, and Samuel Scott and Sumanta Nupane and Lan Mai Tran. The study provides evidence of the dangerous link between adolescent pregnancy and undernutrition, a grave and urgent issue in the fight against malnutrition for India. Scott stated, “The strongest links between adolescent […]

China Science Daily reported on a statement from IFPRI Director General, Shenggen Fan and EPTD Division Director, Channing Arndt. The statement underlined the vital role of CGIAR and IFPRI to confront climate change on the way to sustainable and safe agri-food systems.

The Guardian (UK), in an article on climate change and farm subsidies, detailed the results of a new report from the Food and Land Use Coalition. The subsidy analysis in the report was performed by IFPRI. The Report found that the cost of the damage currently caused by agriculture is greater than the value of […]

Ghana’s Economic and Agricultural Transformation reveals that despite over 30 years of continuous growth in per capita income and rapid urbanization, Ghana has not industrialized and most of its workers remain trapped in low productivity work in agriculture and services. Using empirical analysis of the performance of Ghana’s economy and its agriculture sector over the […]

Climate shocks affect men and women differently—one of many reasons to integrate gender into climate policies and programs.

From Bangladesh independence to key questions on what drives growth and development.

Climate change mitigation can have many benefits for smallholder farmers.

Cash for Nutrition combined transfers with nutrition education and achieved positive results in difficult circumstances—now more research is needed.

Financial Nigeria republished an opinion piece co-authored by Director General Shenggen Fan on the importance of rethinking the food system when tackling climate change. The article described how the food system is a key contributor to climate change, driven in large part by food waste and emissions from animal agriculture. Ultimately, the authors called for […]

Belgium’s Knack Weekend republished an opinion piece by Senior Researcher Fellows Derek Headey and Harold Alderman. Drawing on their recent study, the authors explained that as countries develop, their food systems get better at providing healthier foods cheaply, but they also get better at providing unhealthier foods cheaply. The authors offered Niger as a case […]

South Africa’s Daily Maverick published an opinion piece on the effects of rising protectionism on the agricultural sector, with a particular focus on South Africa. The author quoted Director General Shenggen Fan and Director for Africa Ousmane Badiane, who explained how the 2019 Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor report provides policymakers with some of the tools […]

SDC contracted IFPRI to conduct an independent quantitative impact assessment of the effects of InovAgro, an MSD project. The study, which had a baseline in 2015, longitudinally measures the impact on families of InovAgro’s approach to developing market systems for livelihoods of rural families in the value chains of soybean and pigeon peas in northern Mozambique. One […]

Nigeria’s Vanguard reported on the sixth annual Agricultural Policy Research Network (a program supported by IFPRI) forum in Abuja, where APRNet urged the federal government to invest in agricultural research through infrastructural development. The article described the recommendations outlined by the forum’s speakers, including the need for research institutes to deliver more innovative solutions. The […]

Navbharat Times (Lucknow, India) reported on the recent IFPRI-South Asia Region’s “Stakeholder Consultation Workshop on Million Farmers School in Uttar Pradesh: Evolution, Impact, and Way Forward” meeting. The workshop assessed the program and how well India’s Department of Agriculture makes farmers aware of their objectives. The workshop also examined differences in the cultivation of trained farmers […]

China’s Xinhua reported on the remarks of China Program Leader and Senior Research Fellow Kevin Chen at the recent Africa Green Revolution Forum (AGRF). In the article, Chen noted that Africa could learn from China’s use of information and communication technology for agriculture. Chen added that political instability Africa’s biggest challenge to implementing policy reforms […]

Guatemala’s Prensa Libre reported on the recent finding that Guatemalan women’s average height has increased an average of one centimeter over the past fifty years, making them the shortest female population in the world. The article explained the connections between stature and other indicators of health and quality of life and quoted Senior Research Fellow […]

Coinciding with the national nutrition month, this event is being jointly organized by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the National Institute of Nutrition, and NITI Aayog. It is also supported and co-hosted by Alive & Thrive (A&T), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), […]