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Organized by IFPRI’s Bangladesh Policy Research and Strategy Support Program (PRSPS), this workshop aims to bring together key stakeholders to discuss and debate critical issues related to poverty, hunger, and malnutrition that Bangladesh faces. Technical presentations will center on achieving sustainability in food production, consumption, and nutrition, and building resilience to climate and other shocks, with the […]

An ongoing IFPRI study examines how gender influences the communication of agricultural extension messages in Uganda.

The World Food Programme's aid spending has more than doubled since 2009. Participants at an IFPRI event discuss what that means for the future of food assistance.

Keynote Speaker: Introduction: Moderator: Closing Remarks: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by 193 countries in 2015, set clear targets for ending hunger and undernutrition, as well as for resolving issues of poverty, inequality, and the impacts of climate change, by 2030. In addition to significant financial investments, achieving these goals will also require the […]

IFPRI's Director General on how China can reorient its agriculture and food systems to confront problems such as overnutrition, grain surpluses, and soil degradation.

Foreign Affairs published an op-ed co-authored by Katrina Kosec.

Keynote Address: Report Highlights: Remarks: Panelists: Moderator: The 2017 edition of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World gives updated estimates of the number and proportion of hungry people on the planet and includes data for the global, regional, and national levels. It offers a significant update on the shifting global milieu […]

At the IFPRI staff retreat, Shanta Devarajan of the World Bank explains how well-intentioned fixes for market failures too often result in government failures.

China Daily published an op-ed authored by IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan on the challenges faced by the country’s agri-food sector.

Strategic investments can help unlock potential for agribusiness growth in African nations with low agribusiness competitiveness, food security and agricultural productivity, according to a recent IFPRI study. 

Nancy Roman of the Partnership for a Healthier America on how to reform America's food assistance programs.

A new report shows how focused public and private efforts can yield progress in the fight against hunger.

Bangladesh’s The Independent published an article on a recent IFPRI study on heightened risks of adolescent pregnancy in the country.

Adolescent mothers and their babies face increased health risks in Bangladesh, according to a new study from researchers at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

How to overcome market failures was once the key question underlying development research. A primary conclusion of this research was that governments had to step in to resolve these market failures, for example by providing free public services or protecting infant industries. However, many of these interventions have themselves failed the poor people they were […]

On September 12th, Nancy Roman, President & CEO at Partnership for a Healthier America, delivered the keynote address at IFPRI’s annual staff retreat during which she explored the innovative approaches needed to address urban hunger and malnutrition. Roman concluded that public sector and civil society organizations working in the hunger relief space—including research institutions like IFPRI—must engage with […]

Smallholder farmers in the cradle of the global coffee industry face technical and market obstacles—and climate change.

IFPRI researchers model what would happen if President Trump launched a trade war between the United States and China or Mexico.

EU’s Vox published a commentary by Senior Research Fellows, Antoine Bouët and David Laborde, on US trade wars.