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Participants at an IFPRI forum warn that the fight against global hunger is hitting choppy waters.

Updated September 2017 Growing evidence suggests that men and women experience climate change differently and have different priorities and ability to respond to negative climate change impacts. In order to enable men and women to meet their own needs and leverage their strengths and contributions, we must pay close attention to gender-based differences and embed […]

India’s Scroll.in, a news portal, published an article on the Global Hunger Index 2017 highlighting the country’s performance on the index. The report noted India has a “serious” hunger problem and ranks behind countries such as Bangladesh, Nepal, Iraq and North Korea, largely driven by higher rates of child malnutrition. The report ran in multiple […]

Reuters published an article on the Global Hunger Index 2017. The report noted that global hunger has fallen more than a quarter since 2000, but conflict and climate shocks are beginning to reverse these gains.

Speakers: Moderator: The upcoming COP23 will focus attention on how to achieve the goals set by the Paris Agreement while also pursuing the Sustainable Development Goals. Meeting these goals will require long-term planning capacity at the country level. New research from IFPRI and partners provides insight into tools and approaches—including system thinking, multi-objective analysis, and […]

This year one country hit the threshold of 50, which signifies extremely alarming hunger levels. But, it is impossible to know exactly how severe hunger is in some of the world’s poorest countries that lack data to determine GHI scores.

Global hunger levels have fallen more than a quarter since 2000, but more recent rising hunger scores of several countries in the 2017 Global Hunger Index (GHI) underline how uneven this progress has been and how precarious it is to maintain.

On the International Day of the Girl Child, IFPRI research shows the benefits of early health, nutrition, and education interventions—and the need for better data.

IFPRI is participating extensively in the 21st edition of the IUNS-ICN International Congress of Nutrition on October 15-20th in Buenos Aires, Argentina with the theme, “From Sciences to Nutrition Security”. Aiming to encourage the exchange of knowledge in order to achieve the improvement of Nutrition Security, the Congress’ main goal is to offer a high-level […]

India's Financial Express published an op-ed on the need for agricultural reforms in eastern India to improve food security and reduce poverty.

Speaker: Moderator: Bioeconomy is the knowledge-based production and utilization of biological resources, innovative biological processes and principles to sustainably provide goods and services across all economic sectors. It employs biomimicry, and utilizes biosciences to transform established economic sectors, such as chemical industries, pharmaceuticals, food, and construction industries into sustainable ones. The bioeconomy has been rapidly […]

Despite the shift to distribute food aid via cash transfers, they are not a one-size-fits-all solution, a new World Bank report suggests.

The rising use of smartphones holds promise in making crop insurance more accessible to farmers.

Inside Bangladesh's quiet revolution in fish farming. 

Consumers pay more for Fair Trade and Organic certified coffee. But only a fraction of that premium reaches coffee farmers in Ethiopia.

NPR published a report on the devastating after effects of disasters such as the recent hurricanes and floods on aspirations and economic choices of those affected based on a recent IFPRI study co-authored by Senior Research Fellow Katrina Kosec.

Understanding how food and voucher programs work, and how they connect to wider social protection systems is key to ensuring food security and helping the poor, says a new World Bank report.

Speakers Discussants Moderator The US Congress is currently debating the 2018 farm bill—legislation that will guide farm program spending from 2019 to 2023. Most US farm policies have their roots in the New Deal legislation of the 1930s and began as temporary measures to improve farm incomes. US policy has moved away from direct market […]