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IFPRI congratulates the winners of the two iPad2s, awarded to two people who took part in the survey: The Potential of Agricultural Technologies, which closed on August 15. The two winners are:• Dr. Lalith Achoth, of Bangalore, India, and• Mr. Raoul Rademakers of Cochabamba, Bolivia. The iPads will be shipped soon, and we hope that the […]

Water resource experts in the public and private sectors gather this week in Porto de Galinhas, Pernambuco, Brazil to examine the state of water management in the 21st century. Guided by four themes—adaptive water management, water resources and global change, governance and water law, and knowledge systems—participants of the XIV World Water Congress will assess the impact […]

This year’s World Development Report on “Gender Equality and Development,” released on September 19 by the World Bank, argues that gender equality is a core development objective in its own right; it is also smart economics. Greater gender equality can enhance productivity, improve development outcomes for the next generation, and lead to more representative institutions. The recent […]

The World Trade Organization this week hosted a public forum, “Seeking Answers to Global Trade Challenges”, which discussed the future of the multilateral trading system. The forum addressed four main topics related to global trade: food security, trade in natural resources, “made-in-the-world” and value-added trade, and the next steps for the global trading system. Markets, […]

A recent IFPRI/ZEF study on the economics of land degradation was a topic of discussion at this week’s UN High-Level meeting on desertification. Andris Piebbalgs, the EU commissioner for development, cited the research findings in his speech to the General Assembly, and a side event followed where the study’s results and future actions were discussed […]

On August 31st, IFPRI researchers gathered in Kinshasa with national policymakers and policy advisors, representatives from donor organizations and NGOs, and Congolese experts from academia and research institutions at a high level Policy Dialogue to discuss the state of nutrition and food security in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and ways to improve it. Specifically, the […]

IFPRI Director General, Shenggen Fan, announced today that John McDermott has been named as Director of the new CGIAR (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) research program on Agriculture for Improved Nutrition and Health. McDermott, who played a key role in the collaborative process to develop the program proposal, is the deputy director general and the director of research […]

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) partners with Government of Germany to organize the international “Bonn2011 Conference: The Water, Energy, and Food Security Nexus–Solutions for the Green Economy” to be held in Bonn, Germany from 16 to 18 November. In line with IFPRI’s water research, the goal of the multi-stakeholder conference is to devise solutions […]

In a recent article for the influential German news magazine, “Die Zeit,” IFPRI Senior Research Fellow Deborah Brautigam and coauthors Axel Berger and Philipp Baumgartner took issue with media criticism of China’s role in Africa. While some problems do exist, the authors argue that the conventional wisdom about China’s engagement in Africa is largely wrong. China’s aid is neither as […]

From 2006 to 2008, the world experienced a dramatic increase in global food prices which especially affected the poor, whose diets depend on staple commodities such as maize, rice, and wheat. Miguel Robles and Lora Iannotti examined the nutritional impact of shocks in global food prices in Latin America by measuring the changes in calorie consumption in relation to […]

In March 2009, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) teamed up to advance innovative policies designed to help the poor benefit from climate change mitigation and improved market access. Results from the field are already pouring in. The overall goal of the IFAD–IFPRI Strategic Partnership Program is to provide rural poor […]

Bangladesh has made impressive strides towards poverty reduction in the last decade. However, women continue to bear the burden of extreme poverty and malnutrition, a result of long-standing gender bias in the allocation of food and other resources within the household. In a special issue of the Journal of Development Effectiveness, Agnes Quisumbing, Neha Kumar, and Akhter Ahmed examined the impact […]

Though India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world, many adults and children continue to be undernourished. An IFPRI paper co-authored by Derek Headey, Alice Chiu, and Suneetha Kadiyala, examines how agriculture and income growth influence consumption, as well as the impact of agricultural livelihoods on maternal health and childcare practices. Increased growth in the agricultural sector […]

IFPRI senior researcher Gerald Nelson received an award yesterday at a major gathering of agricultural economists for an innovative 1997 publication that demonstrates how satellite images and other geographic data can be used to predict land use. The paper, Do Roads Cause Deforestation? Using Satellite Images in Econometric Analysis of Land Use, which Nelson wrote with […]

As we increasingly recognize the far reaching impacts of climate change, research has turned greater attention to the concept of environmentally-induced migration. Vulnerable populations such as the poor and landless are more likely to migrate as a result of environmental shocks, such as drought or excessive rainfall. Recent studies of climate-related migration in northern Nigeria […]

IFPRI has released the public use version of the latest round of the Ethiopia Rural Household Survey (ERHS) today at the Ethiopian Economics Association International Conference on the Ethiopian Economy. The ERHS is a collaborative effort of researchers at IFPRI, the School of Economics of Addis Ababa University, and Oxford University. The ERHS has collected household information about food consumption, assets, and incomes from […]

On July 20, the United Nations announced that the persistent, widespread drought in the Horn of Africa has led to famine in two areas of Somalia. The region is experiencing acute malnutrition rates of 30 percent or higher among children, inadequate access to food and water, and mortality rates greater than two people per 10,000. […]

IFPRI congratulates the winners of the two iPad2s, awarded to two people who took part in the survey: The Potential of Agricultural Technologies, which closed on August 15. The two winners are:• Dr. Lalith Achoth, of Bangalore, India, and• Mr. Raoul Rademakers of Cochabamba, Bolivia. The iPads will be shipped soon, and we hope that […]

Led by IFPRI senior researcher Stanley Wood, the CGIAR’s Consortium for Spatial Information(CGIAR CSI), which brings together geospatial researchers—those who gather, analyze and synthesize map-based data—from IFPRI’s 14 sister centers, will have major representation at a leading geographic information systems (GIS) event. The week-long Esri International User Conference in San Diego (July 11-15) will draw around 14,000 GIS experts and users from around the globe to […]

While increasing access to well-functioning markets for high-value agricultural products is one key component of agricultural and economic development, an equally important component is ensuring that smallholder producers, particularly women, have the capacity to take advantage of this increased access. Strengthening the developing world’s local and regional capacity to effectively engage in high-value agricultural markets […]