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Sunday Standard reported in an article that although the Covid-19 pandemic has caused an increase in food prices, well before the pandemic about 6 in 10 Batswana could not afford even the cheapest options for a healthy diet. Studies conducted by IFPRI highlight that that nutrient-rich non-staple foods are ten times more expensive than staple foods in most poor countries. 

News Click published an article on findings of the IFPRI study, Intergenerational nutrition benefits of India’s national school feeding program. The findings show that investments made in school meals in previous decades were associated with improvements in future child linear growth. Senior Research Fellow Harold Alderman said, “Findings from previous evaluations of India’s MDM scheme have shown a positive association with […]

Financial Times published an article on how hunger has played a role in conflict over the years In many places. Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber said, “It’s the spark that lights the fire.” Citing events in northern Africa in 2007-08 as well as 2011, when wheat prices were at record highs. High prices for yellow corn in 2007 forced livestock producers in Mexico […]

The Telegraph (United Kingdom) published an article on the findings from the IFPRI study, Intergenerational nutrition benefits of India’s national school feeding program. Indian women who eat a daily school meal are less likely to go on to have children who are stunted than those who do not, a modeling study has shown. Research Fellow Samuel Scott, one of the […]

Bloomberg Government published an article on a new bipartisan push in Congress to open up Cuba for U.S. agriculture stands the best chance of moving ahead with a trade relationship that has bedeviled American presidents over decades. Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber stated that “This bill has a chance.”  Lifting the trade embargo could benefit the Cuban economy as well, offering […]

The Logical Indian published an article on findings of the IFPRI study, Intergenerational nutrition benefits of India’s national school feeding program. The findings show that investments made in school meals in previous decades were associated with improvements in future child linear growth. Suman Chakrabarti stated, “Findings suggest that intervening during primary school years can make important contributions to […]

MSN India published an article stating that an IFPRI study shows that women who received free meals in primary school have children with improved linear growth. According to Harold Alderman, a senior research fellow, “Findings from previous evaluations of India’s MDM scheme have shown a positive association with beneficiaries’ school attendance, learning achievement, hunger, and protein-energy malnutrition, and resilience to […]

The Nation published an article that stated Malawi’s farm inputs subsidies have come under fresh scrutiny in a book that laments the immense burden they exert on the country’s economy amid continued investment in relief food. In his new book titled Disentangling Food Security from Subsistence Agriculture in Malawi launched last week, senior research fellow Todd Benson observed that despite […]

La Nacion published an interview with senior research fellow and head of the Latin America and Caribbean Region, Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla, who argues that joint initiatives should be promoted in the region to resolve urgent dilemmas such as growth, environmental sustainability, and job creation. The all-encompassing interview tackles problems and potential solutions, discusses where the international community was on issues in […]

New Delhi: Women who received free meals in primary school have children with improved linear growth, according to a new study by researchers at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).  India is home to the highest number of undernourished children and the largest school feeding program in the world—the Mid-Day Meal (MDM) scheme—yet long-term program benefits on nutrition are unknown. […]