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IFPRI is participating in the XVII Biennial IASC conference, “In Defense of the Commons: Challenges, Innovation, and Action.  The conference will bring together experiences and lessons from around the world to reflect on the multiple ways in which different actors have sought to maintain and defend the commons, as well as the challenges and opportunities faced by […]

In a new op-ed, IFPRI researchers argue that a prompt Free Trade Agreement with the BIMSTEC bloc could improve food security and build resilience in the region. (Business Standard)

The poor in growing urban areas face a double burden of both undernutrition and overnutrition. A new IFPRI research program aims to better understand and address this predicament.

EU rural policies balance growth and development, environmental protection, and bottom-up approaches.

Recent findings from an IFPRI survey on food consumption in Papua New Guinea found poor households were not getting enough food. Researcher Emily Schmidt calls for increased access to education to improve rural families' predicaments.

Bangladesh’s Daily Prothom Alo reported on the finding that the country’s farmers take out higher-interest loans from the private sector because few low-interest government loans are available. The article drew from a 2015 IFPRI assessment quoting Akhter Ahmed, who said farmers take out loans to buy agricultural inputs, so if rates were lowered, production costs would go […]

CNBC reported on President Donald Trump’s statement that Mexico could avoid tariffs by purchasing more US agricultural goods. The article quoted Joseph Glauber, who called into question the logic of President Trump’s statement, given that Mexico’s private importers—not the government—do the majority of this purchasing. He pointed out that a number of US producers would […]

From climate change to urbanization, India faces significant challenges to achieving food security. A new book lays out a path forward.

How IFPRI's presence in developing countries helps to integrate evidence and research into food policy – a discussion.

The 2019 Malabo Montpellier (MaMo) Forum will focus on Digitalization in African agriculture and is supported by a technical report analyzing the experience of African countries, which are at the forefront of the application of digital innovations in the agriculture sector. During the Forum, participants will discuss the policy, institutional and programmatic factors which have led […]

Food security is about more than just producing food – a discussion.

IFPRI is participating in a roundtable discussion hosted by South Asia Food and Nutrition Security Initiative (SAFANSI). The roundtable will draw on the latest evidence and experience from current nutrition-sensitive and nutrition-specific programs, which will explore the implications for promoting high impact and underrepresented nutrition sensitive food systems including fish agri-food systems and solutions, other animal sourced foods, […]

There is not enough water—as currently managed—to sustain the world’s population and end hunger and malnutrition. Some key pathways to change.

China Science Daily reported on IFPRI Senior Research Fellow Liangzhi You’s call for more partnerships between international agricultural research organizations—including IFPRI—to build partnerships with China in a recent blog. The article also noted one such partnership at the Macro Agricultural Research Institute (MARI), an international interdisciplinary research institute established jointly by IFPRI and Huazhong Agricultural […]

IFPRI research outlines the scale and the causes of the major global problem of food loss and waste.

Quartz India published an article based on an IFPRI analysis of adolescent births in India. IFPRI researchers Phong Hong Nguyen, Samuel Scott and Purnima Menon analyzed 60,096 mother-child pairs, of which 14,107 women (about 25%) first gave birth during adolescence. They found that stunting and underweight prevalence were over 10 percentage points higher in children born to adolescent mothers than in […]

The Launch of IFPRI’s 2019 Global Food Policy Report Welcoming Remarks Keynote Presentations Global Food Policy – Key Findings of the GFPR 2019 Regional Chapter – Cluster-Based Industrialization to Revitalize MENA Rural Areas Panel Discussion and Q&A Session Rural Revitalization: The Last Rabbit out of the Development Hat Can we Leap-Frog into Digitization? Promoting Agricultural […]

IFPRI is participating in the 2019 EAT Stockholm Food Forum. The forum will explore a range of solutions available for achieving healthy and sustainable diets for a growing global population. It will confront some of the hard questions head on, such as how to feed the world with zero land expansion and ocean depletion, or the […]

IFPRI is participating in the 2019 Global Leadership Summit. ISSUE PANEL 1 Climate Change: Vulnerable Populations in Crisis (June 10, 2019 — 10:15am-11:15am, Atrium Ballroom)  

IFPRI is participating in the 2019 NDC Conference. The Global NDC Conference 2019 aims to inspire and enable policy makers and practitioners to accelerate the pace and scale of transformational change through NDC implementation in order to reach the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement. The Global NDC Conference 2019 provides practical support on how to […]