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IFPRI Director General calls for global focus on effects of climate change on poverty and hunger

The following post, written by Kelly Jones and Alan de Brauw from IFPRI’s Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division, is part of an ongoing series of researcher-authored blog stories highlighting research in progress at IFPRI. Despite a great deal of discussion about linkages between agriculture, nutrition, and health, both inside and outside the CGIAR, until now there is almost no rigorous evidence that interventions to increase […]

World Bank-IFPRI conference held June 15, 2015.

June 15, 2015, Addis Ababa—Since 2000, Ethiopia has been doing something right in early childhood nutrition. Under-five child stunting rates have dropped from 58 percent to 40 percent, child wasting has dropped below 10 percent, and the prevalence of underweight in young children has declined from 41 to 25 percent. What lies behind these impressive gains? […]

June 15, 2015, Washington, D.C.—While Africa south of the Sahara has made substantial improvements to its food security in recent years, one in four people in the region remains undernourished. A new web portal launched today that focuses on agriculture, food security, and nutrition in Africa south of the Sahara has been designed to strengthen capacity for timely food security […]

IFPRI-hosted this workshop of CGIAR’s Global Futures for Agriculture where various stakeholder representatives from IFPRI and 10 other CGIAR centers reviewed the project’s newest strategic foresight methods and the types of technologies being used in the project. Each center presented a brief overview of the technologies and management systems being used in the Global Futures […]

How can we find cost-effective, holistic, people-centered solutions to improve food security in Africa south of the Sahara? Speakers at a recent policy seminar at IFPRI’s Washington DC office revealed an innovative project underway in Tanzania that is creating a model region to find the answer. The seminar, Achieving Food Security in Africa South of […]

Should developing countries return their policy focus to protecting domestic industry, assuming the agricultural sector will go largely unaffected? Former IFPRI senior researcher Alberto Valdés says no.

Recent IFPRI Research Brief on opportunities to improve nutritional outcomes through interventions in food value chains.

WEAI Resource Center Baseline Report Measuring Progress Toward Empowerment: Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture IndexFeed the Future/IFPRI/OPHI Report. May 2014 Peer-reviewed Publications Using cognitive interviewing to improve the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index survey instruments: Evidence from Bangladesh and UgandaHazel J. Malapit, Kathryn Sproule, and Chiara KovarikJournal of Gender, Agriculture and Food Security (Agri-Gender) 2(2): 1-22 2017 […]

Transform Nutrition, IFPRI’s Ethiopia Strategy Support Program and POSHAN (Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition in India) are organising this one day conference in Addis Ababa. Bringing together national policy makers, national and international researchers, donors and implementers this conference will present the most recent evidence on the major nutritional issues in Ethiopia and […]

Moderator: Rajul Pandya-Lorch, IFPRI | Welcome: Astrid Jakobs de Pádua, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany | Lily Munanka, Embassy of the United Republic of Tanzania | Speakers: Khamaldin Mutabazi, Sokoine University of Agriculture SUA in Morogoro, Tanzania | Ephraim Nkonya, IFPRI | Stefan Sieber, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research ZALF This seminar […]

Conference organized by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the European Commission (EC), and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) on June 2, 2015. Making our food systems more nutritious, resilient, and inclusive can significantly improve the lives of millions of people living in poverty around the world. On 2 […]

The following story was originally published on IFPRI’s Food Security Portal blog. Child migration from Central America to the US can be attributed to different socioeconomic factors depending on the point of origin, demanding tailored multisectoral domestic solutions. This was one of the main conclusions of a virtual dialogue on the underlying causes of child and adolescent migration and the […]

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Impacts of agricultural production on natural resource use and conservation in Latin America

This year’s Global Food Policy Report—IFPRI’s flagship publication—is the fourth in an annual series which provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments in the past year. The topics covered in the 2014-15 report are timely as we usher in a new global development agenda. The launch of the Report in various capital cities […]

May 26, 2015, Washington, D.C. — Many countries in the Middle East and North Africa will have to double, triple, or even quadruple their investment in agricultural research and development to meet the targets recommended by the United Nations, according to new research findings by the International Food Policy Research Institute. For decades, many governments […]