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A new brief shows it would take a fairly modest amount – $11 billion annually from donors and governments – to do the job. How that figure was calculated.

A report from Senior Research Analyst Daniel Mason-D’Cruz and Senior Research Fellows Sherman Robinson and Keith Wiebe on how a tax on meat and milk products would reduce greenhouse gas emissions and save half a million lives was picked up by CNBC and dozens of other outlets. The article explains that “a 40 percent tax on beef would reduce consumption […]

  November 9, 2016, New Delhi— It is with a sense of urgency that more than 200 researchers, government officials, civil society partners and others will meet in New Delhi today and tomorrow at the conference “Delivering for Nutrition in India:  Learning from Implementation Research”. Participants in the conference will explore how to improve the […]

A close look at health-based conditional cash transfers in Tanzania reveals important nuances in how such increasingly popular programs work.

Speakers: Chair Closing Remarks: Agricultural incentives in many countries are still influenced by non-tariff measures such as tariff-rate-quotas, export bans, and export subsidies. So the analyses of global trade reform must be based on measures for as many countries as possible, including both the major agricultural producers and where many people are vulnerable to poverty. […]

A new Science study shows providing free vouchers for water treatments to the poor screens out those who won't use them without deterring those who do.

COP22 in Marrakech took over the reins from COP21 during which important progress was made.

As the COP22 climate conference convenes in Marrakesh Nov. 7-18, a look at the role IFPRI's climate research plays in helping countries formulate adaptation policies.

The Financial Express ran an editorial titled “Why agriculture still matters” that mentions IFPRI research: “Agriculture deserves attention on other counts. Studies conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) indicate that a one percentage growth in agriculture is at least two to three times more effective in reducing poverty than the same rate […]

A study by Deputy Division Director and Senior Research Fellow Xinshen Diao, Visiting Senior Research Fellow Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla, and Senior Research Fellow Sherman Robinson, “How Much Does It Hurt?,” was mentioned in an opinion piece for Forbes. The op-ed examines how, with a few policy changes, the United States could improve lives in Latin America. […]

New IFPRI research offers insights into how the Pacific island nations of Fiji, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, and Vanuatu can adapt to climate pressures on fisheries.

A look at IFPRI's efforts to strengthen national food policy research efforts, and their impacts on policy, around the world.

The Times of India covered the 2016 Global Hunger Index, noting that India ranked 97th on the list. According to the article, published on Oct. 13, “[c]ountries worse than India include extremely poor African countries such as Niger, Chad, Ethiopia and Sierra Leone besides two of India’s neighbours: Afghanistan and Pakistan. Other neighbours Sri Lanka, […]

Is politics an obstacle or a means to achieving the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals? At a recent IFPRI event, “Making Politics Work to Meet the SDGs,” Senior World Bank Economist Stuti Khemani argued that politics may be flawed, but paying attention to political incentives is the only way to achieve results. “The selection and sanctioning of […]

Senior Research Fellow David Laborde, Research Assistant Tess Lallemant, and researchers from the International Institute for Sustainable Development penned a piece for The Huffington Post that aims to determine whether the global community can end hunger by the 2030 United Nations deadline. The op-ed mentions a new study by Laborde, Lallemant, and the IISD researchers that found it will cost $11 […]

Dhaka, Bangladesh, October 24, 2016 – On Monday, the Ministry of Agriculture and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) jointly announced the inauguration of the IFPRI Bangladesh office at an event in Dhaka. Mr. Mohammad Nazmul Islam, Additional Secretary (PPC), Ministry of Agriculture and Dr. Shenggen Fan, Director General, IFPRI signed the Memorandum of […]