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A look at the growing tensions between groundwater depletion, agricultural development, and food security.

Speakers: Discussants: Closing Remarks: What explains the persistence of socially suboptimal policies over long periods of time? What factors and forces provoke episodes of reform that punctuate long periods of policy inertia? Given the growing need to achieve policy impact with scarce resources, these key questions increasingly preoccupy the international donor and research communities. This […]

On February 27, the IFPRI-Bangladesh community celebrated the opening of IFPRI’s Bangladesh Integrated Food Policy Research Program (BIFPRP) Dhaka office. During the opening ceremony, various leading IFPRI researchers in the country shared remarks commemorating the occasion. Dr. Akhter Ahmed, IFPRI Representative in Bangladesh, stated, “IFPRI has been working in Bangladesh for over 30 years. With the […]

Together, IFPRI and the Gates Foundation have leveraged nutritional research to improve public health around the world.

Chair: Speakers: The world is rapidly urbanizing.  How does this affect hunger and malnutrition?  IFPRI’s 2017 Global Food Policy Report takes an in-depth look at the challenges and opportunities of urbanization for food security and nutrition. Critical questions addressed in this Report include: Join us to discuss major food policy issues and developments. *Lunch is provided

Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay are growing food exporters that have an important role to play in global food security, says a Devex report on a recent IFPRI seminar. The seminar featured experts from IFPRI, the Brazilian Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock, Institute for International Agricultural Negotiations, and others, who cautioned against the negative impacts […]

Overlapping responsibilities between Nigeria’s federal and state government levels has led to poor coordination in public spending, according to a report of a lecture by IFPRI Senior Research Fellow Tewodaj Mogues. She acknowledged current efforts to strengthen inter-governmental coordination in agricultural spending, but emphasized that obstacles like weakened local legislatures remain. 

A groundbreaking paper based on a collaborative project between IFPRI and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign finds hydropower and irrigation often come into direct competition. 

An investigative piece published in India’s Business Insider refers to the Global Hunger Index to demonstrate the country’s poor performance in reducing hunger and malnutrition. The author argues hunger in India “needs crisis management and a long term vision.”

With the UN declaring some three million people in East Africa on the verge of famine, Voice of America’s “Africa 54” spoke with Senior Research Fellow Ephraim Nkonya about how African nations can avoid such acute food crises. Nkonya explains how stable governance, diversifying incomes, and empowering women can help create an environment capable of […]

A survey of rural communities in Nigeria shows how agricultural programs can encourage better use of ecosystem services in pest control.

The world is rapidly urbanizing.  How does this affect hunger and malnutrition?  

A prominent development economist, Dr. Faaland was well known as an architect of Malaysia's New Economic Policy in the 1970s.

The Food Sustainability Index offers insights that can help countries feed people with a minimal ecological footprint.

How researchers and policy makers can anticipate the long-term future of food security.

To gain status and advantage in the at-times desperate marriage competition in China, families are pouring money into the housing market, new IFPRI research suggests.

India is forecasting record wheat production in 2016 and 2017, according to a report in the Business Standard newspaper. IFPRI South Asia Director P.K. Joshi says that the reason for this record production despite demonetization is that 80 per cent of India’s rural economy ran on credit, and that sowing had begun before the controversial […]

An IFPRI analysis finds a corporate tax proposal being debated in Congress would drive up consumer prices and disproportionately impact the poor and the elderly.

Poor working conditions and unsafe practices were common at slaughterhouses in Western Kenyan according to new research covered by All Africa. Veterinary Epidemiologist Elizabeth Cook  says that these hygiene practices increase the risk of disease transmission from animals to humans. IFPRI supported this research through a grant.

While China’s unprecedented late-20th century growth was fueled by low labor costs and an enormous labor force, that easy growth is ending, argues a new article in the Journal of Economic Perspectives. “From ‘Made in China’ to ‘Innovated in China:’ Necessity, Prospect, and Challenges” makes the case that China’s old business model will no longer […]