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The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) will co-host the 2018 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) launch in Sweden. The focus of this year’s report is on antiglobalism, which was on the rise in 2017. What does this mean for food security and nutrition? The 2018 GFPR examines the impacts of global integration—including the movement […]

In an interview with The Indian Express, Berber Kramer explains the comparative advantages of picture-based crop insurance. 

Reuters published a feature on innovative ways to produce food by overcoming threats posed by climate change and water scarcity to meet demand in the future. The article interviewed IFPRI’s Director General Shenggen Fan who said innovations are key to rebooting the food system. “Innvoations in policies, innovations in institutions, innovations in even new thinking, […]

AWARDS Date Person(s) Awards Apr 19 Xiaobo Zhang The joint paper “Race to the Top and Race to the Bottom: Tax Competition in Rural China” won the Gregory and Paula Chow Best Paper Award at the 2008 Chinese Economists Society Conference. Jun 13 Betina Dimaranan Recipient, Global Trade Analysis Project Research Fellow award (2008-2011) at […]

AWARDS Date Person(s) Awards Feb 1 Shenggen Fan Distinguished Professional Contribution Award from the Southern Agricultural Economics Association for his service in the Editorial Council of its journal. May 27 Kristin Davis Awarded the “Early Achievement Award” at the Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education’s annual conference. May 29 Kristin Davis Awarded Second Runner […]

Manmeet Ajmani and Devesh Roy argue in an oped that India has the potential to up its exports within the ASEAN region. 

AWARDS Date Person(s) Awards Mar 5 Miguel Robles, Ruth Hill Prize awarded by the Marketplace on Innovative Financial Solutions for Development, co-hosted by the Agence Française de Développement, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and World Bank. The prize was awarded for work in developing simple and transparent weather insurance products as a way to improve […]

AWARDS Date Person(s) Awards Jul 25 Gerald Nelson Receive the Enduring Quality Award for the journal article “Do Roads Cause Deforestation? Using Satellite Images in Econometric Analysis of Land Use” during the Agricultural and Applied Agricultural Economics Association and North Eastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association Joint Annual Meeting. Oct 5 Claudia Ringler The journal […]

Exploring reasons behind failure of a Congolese agro-industrial project, Reuters interviews John Ulimwengu. 

AWARDS Date Person(s) Awards May 23 Kristin Davis Fellows Award. The Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education (www.aiaee.org) presents this award to a member who has made exceptional contributions to the profession and who have no less than eight years and no more than fifteen years of service as a professional in agricultural and […]

AWARDS Date Person(s) Awards May 21 Kristin Davis Awarded Outstanding Service Award 2013 from The Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education. The award is presented to an international agricultural and extension educator who has made meritorious service contributions beyond his or her regular employment. Other elements include peer recognition for services beyond normal expectations, […]

A new study suggests the potential for ecosystem-based pest management in Nigeria.

AWARDS Date Person(s) Awards Jan 22 Shenggen Fan At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, World Food Programme honored Shenggen Fan with a Hunger Hero Award, in recognition of his commitment to and leadership in fighting hunger worldwide. Fellow award recipients included Sam Dryden, Senior Fellow at the Bill and Melinda Gates […]

AWARDS Date Person(s) Awards Dec 30 Pramod Joshi, Suresh Babu RT. Doshi Foundation award for the best article published in the journal Agricultural Economics Research Review in 2013 was given to the paper by SC Babu, PK Joshi, CJ Glendenning, K Asenso-Okyere and Rasheed Sulaiman, Agricultural Economics Research Review, Vol 26 (2) (2013) pp. 159-172. […]

AWARDS Date Person(s) Awards Apr 12 Akhter Ahmed, Lynette Aspillera, Melissa Hidrobo, Shalini Roy Received the Award for Innovations to Prevent Gender-Based Violence from the World Bank Group and nonprofit Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI), for their proposal entitled “The Effects of Transfers and Behavior Change Communication on Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Rural Bangladesh […]

AWARDS Date Person(s) Awards Jan 12 Barun Deb Pal Awarded ‘Ghosh Memorial Prize’for a joint paper on “Incidence of eco-taxes in India – a Social Accounting Based Approach,” presented at 19th conference of Input-Output Research Association of India at Gokhle Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune. Feb 16 Pramod Joshi PK Joshi received the ISAE […]

We congratulate IFPRI researcher Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse for his selection as a new Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences.

Shenggen Fan published an op-ed with the Thomson Reuters Foundation. He wrote that by addressing the whole system by which we grow, buy, and eat our food, we can achieve multiple wins to maintain biodiversity for planetary and human health.