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Chapter 6 of the 2016 Global Food Policy Report highlights the need to adapt food systems to support nutritious and sustainably-produced diets.

New IFPRI Policy Brief lays out current and expected impacts of El Niño and offers short and long term national policy recommendations to respond to its effects.

AgMIP is a worldwide community of scientists focusing on improving the characterization of food security due to climate change and other factors.

IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan on the earthquakes striking Japan and Ecuador: I am deeply saddened to hear of the earthquakes that struck Ecuador and Japan. Earthquakes and other natural disasters can devastate communities, wreak havoc on the environment, and cause hunger and malnutrition in an already food insecure world. The Ecuadorian situation is particularly […]

The global food system puts significant pressure on the world’s natural resources and is a major contributor of GHG emissions. At the same time, a large amount of the food produced by this system is either lost or wasted each year.

Speakers: Moderator: Chair: Improved seeds and traits are central to many developing countries’ national strategies for agricultural development and economic growth. Some developing countries have made considerable progress in this area by reforming seed market regulations, encouraging regional regulatory harmonization, reducing state intervention around seed pricing, and encouraging private investment in seed markets. Nevertheless, many […]

UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16 calls for the global community to “promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.” Speaking at a recent panel discussion held at IFPRI’s home office, John Coonrod, executive vice president of The Hunger […]

According to IFPRI’s 2016 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR), launched in Washington, DC last week, achieving the ambitious aims of the SDGs

Smallholder farmers have a vital role to play in global food security and nutrition, and in supporting a range of development and climate change goals.

An astounding one third of all food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted between the farm and the fork. Just think about that for a moment.

Can microfinance institutions increase health insurance coverage among the poor? New research presents results from field experiment in Tanzania.

At the recent launch of the 2016 Global Food Policy Report in Washington, DC, IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan saw something of a mixed bag for global food security leading into 2016. On the positive side, the international development community made major strides in 2015 in securing the passage of the UN Sustainable Development Goals […]

Flying into Cairo, the first thing you notice is the size. Three and a half times more populous than Paris, the city is a sprawling landscape of nearly identical, dusty brown apartment buildings as far as the eye can see—or as far as a curious passenger on a rapidly descending airplane can see from a […]

The following post by Jessica Heckert and Sunny Kim was originally published on the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) Gender-Nutrition Idea Exchange blog. Since the launch of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) in 2012 and later its abbreviated form (A-WEAI), it has been widely used to measure and […]

Speakers: Moderator: The combination of a warming earth and an increasing global population will likely strain the world’s food systems in the coming decades. Quantitative measurements of these climate, population, and food system trends and shocks are undertaken by experts at the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP). IFPRI’s participation in AgMIP is supported by […]

The IFPRI Board of Trustees seeks two candidates one with U.S. citizenship and one from Latin American and the Caribbean Region with expertise in one or more of the following areas:  development economics and agricultural economics, sociology, anthropology, political science,  general agriculture, natural resource management, health, nutrition, financial management, and other fields related to IFPRI’s […]

Speakers: Chair: 2016 Global Food Policy Report reviews major trends, events, and changes affecting food security and nutrition in 2015 and beyond. The year 2015 was a watershed moment for the international development community. The endpoint of the Millennium Development Goals highlighted the striking advances made since 1990: extreme poverty, child mortality, and hunger all […]

Speakers: Chair: 2016 Global Food Policy Report reviews major trends, events, and changes affecting food security and nutrition in 2015 and beyond. The year 2015 was a watershed moment for the international development community. The endpoint of the Millennium Development Goals highlighted the striking advances made since 1990: extreme poverty, child mortality, and hunger all fell […]

IFPRI researcher Simrin Makhija and colleagues test behavior change theory via field experiment in Ghana.

GCARD3 (2015-2016) is the third Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development. Organized by the Global Forum on Agriculture Research (GFAR) and CGIAR, GCARD is a global conversation between the research community and civil society on the future of agricultural research and innovation. IFPRI will participate in the following activities at GCARD3: Pre-event on Monday, April 4 | 11:30 […]