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Eco-Business (India) published an article on carbon and climate and stated that the world’s third-largest emitter (India) of the potent greenhouse gas is hesitant to join global phase-down efforts. Senior research fellow Suresh Babu said, “Though India has seen some strong determination to mitigate climate change by focusing on renewable energy. Its agriculture sector has not received much attention” […]

IPP Media published an article on the latest CAADP conference. The takeaway from the conference is that we should be reminded that hunger, beyond the physical discomfort, is a humiliating experience that deprives individuals of their dignity and basic human right. Hunger ultimately affects all aspects of our development agenda as a continent. This conference was well […]

Financial Express (Bangladesh) published an article on the recent ‘Annual BIDS Conference on Development (ABCD)’, organized by the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS).  Research Fellow Emeritus Nurul Islam, who is the former deputy chairman of planning commission presented the keynote paper at the inauguration event. He pointed that the RMG sector and the remittance inflow are at the […]

The Daily Star (Bangladesh) reported on Senior Fellow Emeritus Nurul Islam‘s keynote speech at the inaugural of the “Annual BIDS Conference on Development.” Although Bangladesh has been able to cut the rate of poverty in its 50 years of journey, inequality has increased. “Poverty has reduced in Bangladesh, all the statistics have proved it, but inequality has increased.” 

Nature published an article on how what we eat needs to be nutritious and sustainable. Researchers are trying to figure out what that looks like around the world. For researchers exploring future diets in some low- or middle-income nations, one hurdle is finding out what people are eating in the first place. “It’s literally like a black box […]

Scroll.in published an interview with research fellow Sudha Narayanan where she discussed what drives the demand for reforms, why the government failed to pass the farm laws, and why India needs to focus on the farmer every time it talks about changing Indian agriculture. It might be useful to think of reform as a process – something that we need […]

Eureka Alert published a press release about a new paper stating that as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration begins, almost 50 authors from diverse backgrounds set out 10 rules for addressing human and social dimensions of restoration currently overlooked in ecosystem restoration. Neglecting social and people-centered restoration models can result in land grabs, conflict, and further marginalization […]

Bernama (Malaysia) published an article describing comments from Minister, Datuk Seri Alexander Nanta Lingg (Nanta) about a sales promotion titled Jualan Keluarga Malaysia (Malaysian Family Sale) will be held in all of the 222 parliamentary constituencies twice a month on a monthly basis beginning December 4 as part of the government’s efforts to ensure consumers get necessities at […]

The Hindu published an op-ed from research fellow Sudha Narayanan. In the op-ed, Narayanan said that the challenge is that different States have different regulations and a different pace of reform in part due to the political stakes involved in tackling trader collusion in these markets. States need to go back to the basics and to the suggestions […]

Paepard published an announcement about the new PIM book Advancing gender equality through agricultural and environmental research: Past, present, and future and CGIAR’s research on gender over the past decade. The book presents a shift away from a typical, instrumentalist outlook focused on how gender analysis can contribute to research objectives, such as improved productivity. Over 55 gender researchers who […]