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While some recent studies conclude that North American agriculture, including the highly productive Canadian prairies, 1 is expected to be less vulnerable to climate change than other regions of the world,2,3 our scenarios do ot suggest that Canada can compensate for worldwide productivity losses due to climate change. Of the four different climate change scenarios we consider4 in the […]

Strategic grain reserves—also called emergency food reserves or food security reserves—have received considerable attention following the global food crisis of 2007–08. Various models for holding reserves have been discussed at such high-level forums as the G-8 Summit and have been studied by the New Economic Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) and other regional economic organizations. […]

In which regions will agriculture and food security be most affected by climate change? That depends on how you define “affected”. Climate change can affect agricultural outcomes on many levels. Climate change can decrease (or in some cases increase) yields, which in turn impact farmer livelihood. Climate change affects world prices. This means that the value […]

For nearly a decade, IFPRI and its partners in the Regional Network on AIDS, Livelihoods and Food Security (RENEWAL) have been studying the critical links between HIV/AIDS, agriculture, hunger, and malnutrition. Active in Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Uganda, and Zambia, RENEWAL works to enhance the understanding of these connections and bridge the divide between the HIV and food/nutrition communities. “As the causes and consequences of AIDS epidemics become […]

Abstract Millions of farmers use fertilizers to increase agricultural production and productivity and thereby improve their livelihoods. But fertilizers have impacts beyond agricultural production. If they are not managed carefully, fertilizers can damage soil and groundwater and compromise people’s health. In this seminar, Luc Maene, Tom Bruulsema, and Ross Welch talk about how fertilizer use […]

Feeding a growing world population, likely to reach 9 billion by 2050, poses an unprecedented challenge to human ingenuity. How to satisfy the demand for food by the some 8 billion people who will live in the developing world is a particularly pressing food security question. Even in the best of circumstances, sustainably satisfying the […]

In his opening keynote to the conference at the First Global Conference on Biofortification, Ambassador William J. Garvelink observed that there’s been a significant decline in funding for agriculture over the past decades. However, the tide has changed. The US Government has committed 3.5 billion over three years on agricultural led development through Feed the Future (FTF). […]

David Orden, Senior IFPRI Research Fellow and Director of the Global Issues Initiative, Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment, at Virginia Tech, is one of five organizers for this workshop funded by the Farm Foundation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service, and the U.S. International Trade Commission. The objective of the workshop is to shed light on transparency […]

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) recently released two new data sets—the Ethiopia Nile Basin Climate Change Adaptation dataset and the South Africa Limpopo Basin Climate Change Adaptation dataset. Both sets are based on household surveys that were implemented as part of the project Food and Water Security under Global Change: Developing Adaptive Capacity with a Focus […]

Project Blog:http://genderassets.wordpress.com The Inception Workshop will be the kick off to the IFPRI/ILRI ‘Evaluating the Impacts of Agricultural Development Programming on Gender Inequalities, Asset Disparities, and Rural Livelihoods Project’ (funded by the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation). This project will evaluate 8-10 agricultural projects (research and development) funded by several organizations (e.g., the BMGF, World Bank, USAID, and others) to identify […]

The director of IFPRI’s Program on Biosafety Systems (PBS), Judy Chambers, participated in an October 12 panel discussion on sustainable agriculture and biodiversity practices at Iowa State University in Des Moines, Iowa. Hosted by Iowa State, CropLife International, CropLife America, and Truth about Trade and Technology, the lively town hall meeting kicked off the three-city Biodiversity World Tour, which moves on […]

Agricultural policy and practice affect human health, which in turn impacts agricultural productivity and output. Agriculture contributes to better health by improving the quality and quantity of food available and increasing income. Effective health policies in turn can support agriculture by protecting the labor force from lost time and income due to illness, chronic disability, […]

Senior IFPRI Research Fellow Clare Narrod and IFPRI Research Fellows Pippa Chenevix Trench and Marites Tiongco will be participating in a workshop in Phuket, Thailand on Pro Poor HPAI Risk Reduction: Lessons from Southeast Asia and Africa. Collaborators from national and international research centers across Africa and southeast Asia will present the project’s findings including […]

IFPRI’s 2020 Vision Initiative has announced a Youth Writing Contest in conjunction with its upcoming conference, “Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition and Health”, to be held February 10-12, 2011 in New Delhi. Young people between the ages of 14 and 18 are invited to participate by submitting an essay, short story, poem, open letter to a […]

Eva Schiffer, former International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) postdoctoral research fellow, discusses how applying the Net-Map method at an avian influenza workshop in Ghana uncovered some “rather scary communication breakdowns and corruption hot spots” in a recent video interview. According to Schiffer, the central question researchers and workshop participants were seeking to answer was: “If there […]

Orange sweet potato—yes, the type that shows up on Thanksgiving tables here in the U.S.—may well be the first sign of a new nutrition revolution in Africa. We spend a lot of time talking about this versatile root (not tuber). It’s chock-full of vitamin A and is spreading its goodness in Africa where people are […]

The 2010 GHI score fell by 14 percent in Sub-Saharan Africa compared with the 1990 score, according to the latest Global Hunger Index (GHI) report. Yet the region ranks second overall with an index of 21.7 (South Asia ranks first at 22.9, with higher scores indicating higher levels of hunger and malnutrition) and is home to eight of […]

Hunger and malnutrition severely impede global progress: undernutrition during the first 1,000 days of life (from conception to age two) is not only one of the leading contributors of global hunger, but also has largely irreversible consequences for health, productivity, and economic performance. The 5th annual Global Hunger Index, published by the International Food Policy […]

South Asia has the highest regional “hunger index”, at 22.9 (out of 100), according to the latest Global Hunger Index (GHI) released earlier this week. The report cites the low nutritional, educational, and social status of women as leading factors that contribute to a high prevalence of underweight in children under five, one of the key indicators […]

The 2010 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report, prepared by IFPRI, Welthungerhilfe, and Concern, focuses on malnutrition among children under two years of age as a leading challenge to reducing global hunger, and its persistent adverse effects in the areas of health, productivity, and earning potential. The following are some background facts and key findings related to the 2010 GHI report: