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Organised by the European Commission, the European Development Days (EDD) bring the development community together each year to share ideas and experiences in ways that inspire new partnerships and innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. For its twelfth edition, EDD 2018 will aim at bringing together the European Union’s commitment to gender equality and […]

Research shows that two of Ethiopia's social protection programs could work more effectively together.

The Indian government's ambitious effort to boost farmer incomes has not gone as planned so far.

AWARDS Date Person(s) Awards Apr 3 Tewodaj Mogues Awarded “Best Departmental Dissertation of 2005,” Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Apr 3 Shenggen Fan Recipient, University of Minnesota Distinguished Leadership Award for Internationals, and the Department of Applied Economics Outstanding Alumni Award. May 2 Karl Rich Awarded Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation in Agricultural […]

AWARDS Date Person(s) Awards Jul 29 Guillaume Gruere, Jose Falck-Zepeda The book “Economics of Regulation of Agricultural Biotechnologies” edited by Julian Alston, David Zilberman, and Richard Just, was named winner of the Quality of Communication Award by the American Agricultural Economics Association at its annual meeting. Jose and Guillaume each contributed a chapter to the […]

IFPRI’s Annual Report; Ladybugs’ Economic Value; Nutritional Intervention Impact; and More

May 30, 2018, Washington, D.C.: Economic recovery in Russia supported by the significant upturns in energy and metal prices is positively affecting the prospects for growth, household welfare, and food security in Eurasia, according to the 2018 Global Food Policy Report released by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) at a conference in Moscow. […]

Preliminary results focusing on changes in agriculture production diversity, dietary diversity, infant and young child feeding practices, and women’s empowerment in Bangladesh.

The Indian Express reported on IFPRI’s research on pulses in India assessing if India has reached self-sufficiency in pulses. The article, based on PK Joshi’s co-authored chapter in the Pulses book, argues that the country may transition from a pulses importing nation to an exporting one, if the current growth trends in pulses production continue.

India’s Mint published an op-ed by Avinash Kishore assessing the Indian government’s agrarian policies intended to double farmers’ incomes. In the article, Kishore argues that various government schemes to augment farmers’ incomes have had little impact on ground, and agriculture continues to be a high-risk, low-return enterprise. “Experience shows that what hurts farmers today, almost […]

IFPRI is participating extensively in the International Consortium on Applied Bioeconomy Research (ICABR) conference. Multiple changes in the structure of the food system and agriculture raise new opportunities and challenges for the agricultural sector.  In the developing world, these changes started in Asia and Latin America, and are rapidly emerging in Africa.  Urbanization and increased urban […]

Confrontations like the current standoff between the U.S. and China undermine the broad benefits of open trade and globalization, while doing nothing address the problems.

As part of the Technology Facilitation Mechanism mandated by the 2030 Agenda and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, the annual collaborative Multi-stakeholder Forum on science, technology and innovation for the sustainable development Goals (STI Forum) is expected to “provide a venue for facilitating interaction, matchmaking and the establishment of networks between relevant stakeholders and multi-stakeholder partnerships in […]

India has thus far failed to realize the full potential of trade integration with Southeast Asia. How to jump-start that process.

Key findings Top 10 districts – lowest stunting ratesErnakulam (KL)           12.4%Pathanamthitta (KL)    13.3%Kollam (KL)                 14.4%Alappuzha (KL)           14.5%Idukki (KL)                   15.1%Cuttack (OR)               15.3%Hyderabad (TG)        […]

New Delhi – Addressing women’s well-being and education are critical to any strategy focused on reducing child stunting in India, as nearly three-fourth of the differences in childhood stunting between low and high burden Indian districts can be explained by differences in women’s low body mass index (19%) and education (12%), according to a new study […]

IFPRI-SAR's Purnima Menon, in an interview with The Indian Express, emphasizes on addressing gender-related inequlities to reduce child stunting in India.

Making food systems function more equitably for consumers, farmers, workers, migrants, and women – a discussion.

The 2018 EAT Stockholm Food 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 benefits of processed foods and clean […]