Search IFPRI web

An IFPRI workshop examines ways in which (and sometimes whether) provisioning information to the public can result in more responsive governments.

Senior Research Analyst

International Experts Outline Food Safety Risks, Regulations, and Impact of Urbanization Colombo, Sri Lanka – On Monday, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Ministry of Primary Industries, and the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka began a two-day international workshop in Colombo on emerging food safety and quality risks in South Asia […]

Detecting what works, and doesn’t, in advancing better policies to buttress food security.

Suresh Babu, Head of Capacity Strengthening, authored an op-ed in the Inter Press Service about the need for development aid, directed toward drought- and conflict-vulnerable countries, to build resilient food systems in order to provide immediate relief and long-term development. The article goes on to explain that resilience of food systems relies on political, institutional and agricultural […]

How the Malabo Montpellier Panel, composed of African and European development experts, is working to accelerate progress towards food and nutritional security in Africa.

An IFPRI trial in Bangladesh shows that index-based insurance—with payouts based on weather data or other benchmarks rather than actual losses—has benefits beyond mere compensation.

Students in a UMD class on international crop production learn food policy analysis by focusing on the role of social entrepreneurship.

Danielle Resnick, senior research fellow, authored an op-ed in The Conversation about informal food markets in Africa. Informal markets and street vendors play a critical role in many African cities. In a study of 11 African cities, 70 percent of households regularly purchase their food from informal markets. The article suggests that rather than shutting […]

With food demand rising, it's time for local governments in Africa to embrace rather than quash informal food markets and vendors.

Bangladesh’s Financial Express wrote an article on IFPRI’s Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) Baseline Study. The ANGeL survey, aimed to identify the most effective actions to increase agricultural diversity, improve nutrition and promote women’s empowerment, intends to guide the Ministry of Agriculture’s policy decisions. Two policy recommendations, as described in the article, included greater […]

As more residents of the Sahel region shift to from livestock herding to cultivating the land, research shows there are ways to manage both practices sustainably.

A meeting was held in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire April 4 and 5, 2017, co-hosted by IFPRI and AfricaRice, to strengthen linkages and forge stronger partnerships around new ideas, tools and technologies that contribute to developments in agricultural science, technology and innovation.  The meeting was attended by over 60 participants from international development institutions (World Bank, […]

An IFPRI program finds that distributing insecticide-treated mosquito nets to pregnant women is an inexpensive way to prevent malaria.

Hyper-urbanization and its implications for food security and nutrition in urban and rural areas is an urgent concern that has gained increasing attention over the years. The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), SNV Netherlands Development Organization, and Welthungerhilfe are jointly organizing a one-day event in Brussels on the eve of the European Development Days […]

Food Tank wrote an article on the 2017 Global Food Policy Report theme of urbanization. The piece focused on how urbanization and rapid urban population growth will put pressure on the global food system, and how countries must take urbanization into account to achieve the United Nation’s (U.N.) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of ending hunger, […]

New IFPRI research maps the vulnerability of local markets in 27 developing countries to volatile global prices.

In an article for The Times of India, chief minister of the Congress election manifesto Amarinder Singh named PK Joshi to an expert group panel to address the amount of agricultural debt and means for a waiver. Along with PK, former chairman of Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) T Haque leads the group […]