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The Hindu published an article stating that the National Nutrition Mission or the Poshan Abhiyaan — the world’s largest nutrition programme for children and mothers — must be stepped up in order to meet the targets set by the Centre to reduce stunting, wasting, and anaemia by 2022 with only a little over a year left to reach its goals. Senior Research Fellow Purnima […]

News Chronicle (Nigeria) published an article on the status of food prices in Nigeria. Nigeria is still vulnerable to increases in food prices as well as shortages that are likely to occur in the long run. This is largely because the country still depends on food imports to address gaps. Initial estimates from the IFPRI and the Central […]

Live Mint published an article on how supply chain disruption in poultry continues, further hurting the nutritional standards of poorer households. An IFPRI study found high prices of eggs, in particular, also threaten to worsen the nutritional standards of poorer households. Cereals constitute about 47% of the average Indian diet and 70% of the calorie consumed by the poorest […]

El Pais published an article about how millions will be affected by the pandemic that turns into a food security crisis. There is no crisis without a good dose of euphemisms. “Austerity” is equal to cuts in public services, “negative growth” equals recession and if people don’t have food there’s talk of “food insecurity.” Senior Research Fellow David Laborde is quoted […]

Dostor published an article on the social protection program, Takaful and Karama, a project to strengthen the social safety network in the 27 governorates inside Egypt. More than 3.1 million families, or nearly 11.1 million individuals, have been registered since the program was launched in 2015. Many of them are women. IFPRI conducted an independent impact evaluation showing […]

Global Coffee Report published an article about the rise of global value chains (GVCs) over the past 30 years. It has resulted in more complex and geographically fragmented supply chains for a vast variety of goods, ranging from smartphones to agricultural products. Whether ‘spider-like’ with internationally-sourced parts and components assembled at a factory or ‘snake-like’ with value created step by […]

Wire published an article on how there is no road map to reduce the production of wheat and rice, it is now possible to reduce India’s dependence on Punjab and Haryana for food security by procuring from non-traditional states. An IFPRI study of Indian diets has found that households in the lowest deciles get much lower calories from […]

The Times (Malawi) published an article on the 2020 Economics Association of Malawi Annual Conference comes at a time the Covid-19 pandemic has left almost all the global economies limping and disrupted supply chains. The conference has attracted top economic minds which include Senior Research Fellow and Leader of Malawi Country Strategy Bob Baulch. 

Insights IAS published an article reporting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi assured the girls of the country that the government will decide the right age for marriage as soon as a concerned committee gives its report. In June this year, the Centre had formed a 10-member task force under Jaya Jaitley, to recommend whether the legal age of […]

Future Agricultures published the third of a four-part blog series on the future of small-scale farming, Director, Africa Region, Jemimah Njuki, reflects on the discussion in this blog post. She emphasizes the importance of this sector’s social dimensions.  “I consistently highlight a key issue: the social dimension of smallholder farming from a gender and youth perspective. There is a […]