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Many of the foods people depend on most for their sustenance can carry a silent killer: aflatoxins. These naturally occurring fungal toxins contaminate food crops, such as maize, groundnuts, tree nuts, and a range of other produce.

The Annual General Meeting and Conference of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists (PSDE) provides an important forum for economic professionals, policymakers, businessmen, and various schools of interested observers to debate development issues. The objective of this conference is to provide a forum and a platform to academics and policy-makers for an exchange of ideas on the […]

FAO, IFPRI, PIM launch new platform at153rd FAO session.

Do economic predictions of damage from climate change cause policymakers to focus on the wrong thing?

Post originally published in the Huffington Post.

On the occasion of the climate talks in Paris, Dr. Shenggen Fan, Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), has issued the following media statement:     November 30, 2015, Washington, DC – “Today I welcome efforts by President Obama and Microsoft founder Bill Gates to spur spending on climate change research. This […]

The surge of refugees, including those flowing into Europe from Syria, can positively affect economic growth by increasing the labor force and boosting demand for goods, without introducing negative effects often attributed to foreigners, a new study has found. The study, entitled “The EU Refugee Crisis: The Tip of a Global Iceberg,” found that overall […]

The 2015 GLF brings together individuals and organizations that have an impact on land use.

21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

2015 Global Landscapes Forum – Dec 5

The following story by IFPRI Board Member Simon Maxwell was originally published on his personal blog. We were asked at the 40th anniversary conference of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) to think about the challenges for food policy research over the next 40 years – so let me try to do that. I […]

The following story was originally published on Lawrence Haddad’s Development Horizons blog. When I joined IFPRI as a research assistant in 1984 IFPRI was only 9 years old (I was a bit older).  This past week IFPRI celebrated its 40th birthday: looking back and looking forward. A quote from an unknown source about being 40 says […]

The following blog story was originally published on the Compact2025 website. On November 18, 2015, IFPRI officially launched Compact2025, a bold new initiative to end hunger and undernutrition by 2025. Compact2025 works with countries to bring stakeholders together, set priorities, innovate and learn, build on successes, and synthesize sharable lessons to accelerate progress in ending […]

At USAID, we know that addressing gender issues is essential in our work to end extreme poverty and create resilient, democratic societies. Period. Women are key drivers of economic growth and must gain access to and control of capital, land, markets, education and leadership opportunities in order to build vibrant economies and respond to a […]

2015 is a momentous year for IFPRI as we celebrate our 40th anniversary. 

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is launching Compact2025, an ambitious initiative to work with countries to end hunger and undernutrition by 2025, as a first step toward eradicating extreme poverty. Inspired and informed by successes in many countries, Compact2025 seeks to bring evidence, data, and innovation to the challenge of ending hunger and […]

Most of our health systems are set up to respond to problems, whereas agriculture can be part of a prevention approach.

ARENA studies the linkages between animal source foods and stunting, on measuring and improving the affordability of healthy foods and healthy diets, on farming systems and nutrition, and the impacts of structural transformation on nutrition

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Speaking at a recent policy seminar on climate change and food security, Heather McGray, Director of Vulnerability & Adaptation at the World Resources Institute (WRI), framed the challenge of climate change as twofold. “One of the hallmarks of climate change is growth in uncertainty about the weather—we just have trouble knowing what it’s going to […]