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The CGIAR Research Programs on PIM and on Roots, Tubers, and Bananas (RTB) have been collaborating on reinforcing the gender focus in research

2016 Global Food Policy Report: How We Feed the World is Unsustainable Land area the size of Nicaragua is lost due to drought and desertification every year, putting 200 million small-scale farmers in Africa south of the Sahara at high risk of climate change The Western diet is unsustainable—feeding just one Westerner for one year emits […]

All over the world, people are paying attention to the transformative role of women’s groups. Women, when organized in groups, have been able to achieve change within their communities, households, and themselves.

The unusually strong 2015-2016 El Niño cycle has caused widespread drought throughout southern and eastern Africa, triggering delayed planting and crop failures, particularly in South Africa, Mozambique, Malawi, Botswana, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe.

Every other week we read of a new water pollution scandal. Can we turn the tide of growing water pollution around?

The theme for this year’s World Water Day—“water and jobs”— is intended to draw attention to the often invisible role of water in creating and supporting jobs, and how better water supplies could create better jobs.  Nowhere is this more applicable than for women’s access to water, especially in rural areas.  Official statistics indicate that […]

Study could have profound effects on the overall health of some of the world’s most undernourished populations   March 22, 2016, Washington, D.C.—A recent study out of Burkina Faso shows that integrating nutrition and health education and women’s empowerment interventions into an agriculture program, if well-designed and run, can improve child and maternal undernutrition in […]

Imagine a world in which every box of Cheerios you opened tasted different. In developed countries, quality control measures to ensure that food products meet certain safety and quality standards play a key role in agricultural processing. These measures include testing for bacterial contamination, measuring the amount of fat, protein, and other nutrients, and inspecting […]

Egypt SSP's main objective is to raise incomes of the rural poor and to improve food and nutrition security in Egypt.

In recognition of Pi Day (Greek letter π), celebrated each March 14th (03/14), here are some pie charts to illustrate key findings on gender gaps in control over land.

The following blog story by Agnes Quisumbing, Hazel Malapit, and Mysbah Balagamwala was originally published on the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) blog. It’s Pi Day! (3/14). And to celebrate we’re continuing our focus on women’s empowerment in Bangladesh using pie charts to show the linkages between women’s empowerment and […]

MTID partners with FONGS, a federation of farmers’ associations in Senegal, to build M&E capacity.

Speakers: 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 by around half. However, enormous challenges remain. The 2016 Global Food Policy Report reviews major trends, events, and changes affecting food security and nutrition in 2015 […]

The Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) project aims to identify actions and investments in agriculture that can leverage agricultural development for improved nutrition, and make recommendations to further women’s empowerment

One of a researcher’s biggest fears is that research outputs go unread, gathering dust on people’s shelves before ending up in the recycling bin.  However, this fear was unfounded for our work on the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), which has gone from esoteric research tool to a widely-used data collection tool that has […]

Proximity to food markets is associated with better diets – and, in some instances, with lower child under-nutrition rates

In February, I joined San Francisco-based photographer Mitchell Maher on a trip to Tanzania and Malawi. The two of us journeyed out together to make films and collect images for some ongoing projects IFPRI is involved with in the region. In Tanzania, we joined IFPRI senior research fellow Ephraim Nkonya and his German collaborators, on the massive Trans-SEC […]

New study predicts more than 500,000 additional deaths by 2050 due to changed diets if no climate change mitigation is achieved.