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Washington, DC – The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Scientific Group of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Food Systems Summit signed a Memorandum of Understanding today establishing a framework for collaboration on research for the UN Food Systems Summit 2021. The framework outlines key themes for research collaboration, including gender equity, inclusive transformation […]

PhysOrg published an article on agricultural data accessibility which is key to accelerating new discoveries and translating them into practice in the field. Some experts say that agriculture trails behind its more open and accessible scientific counterparts, threatening the success of programs to reduce world hunger. However, Senior Research Fellow Medha Devare says, “Agriculture’s not lagging behind other fields so […]

OPHI (Oxford, UK) published an article on the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a ground-breaking tool to measure the empowerment, agency, and inclusion of women in the agriculture sector. Launched in March 2012 by OPHI with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the WEAI tracks women’s engagement in agriculture […]

MarketScreener published an article stating as Egypt carries out macro-economic reforms, social safety net interventions, including the flagship Takaful and Karama program, remain critical for mitigating the impact on the poor and vulnerable. Takaful and Karama supports Egypt’s most vulnerable citizens. Throughout its lifetime, the Takaful and Karama program has had approximately 31 million registered applicants in its […]

ReliefWeb published an article with the most current situation report for Myanmar. IFPRI, in its latest research, estimates that food insecurity has risen in Yangon Region, despite Government’s cash transfers support. The proportion of mothers with inadequate diets has steadily increased from 30 percent in June/July 2020 to 53 percent in September/October 2020.  Republished in South Africa News Shafaqna, Nigeria News Shafaqna

Clarin published an op-ed by Eugenio Diaz Bonilla. The op-ed discusses the argument that to avoid devaluation, recession, and increased poverty one must step on the nominal exchange rate. Since we never control inflation with all the measures that would be necessary, invariably it would lead to an even larger devaluation, with much deeper recessions and huge jumps in inflation and poverty, which […]

Sunday Standard (Botswana) published an article on an IFPRI study, Relative caloric prices of healthy and unhealthy foods differ systematically across income levels and continents, which states high food prices could help explain why countries such as Botswana continue to struggle with a double burden of malnutrition extremes. Many people, according to the study, in developing countries do not only have low income but […]

Blueprint (Nigeria) published an article stating that it is no doubt regrettable that youth don’t often see a future in agriculture in Africa. This is even more so in Nigeria, where more than 65 percent of the population lives in rural areas, and more than 70 percent of rural households depend on agriculture for their livelihood. Agriculture provides the single […]

The Times (Malawi) published an article on the status of maize prices in Malawi. An agricultural expert, Tamani Nkhono Mvula, has projected continued stability in maize prices in the short-term as some vendors appear to have released the grain they were hoarding. Maize prices have been stable in most parts of the country the past two months, ranging between K10, […]

The Paper (China) published an article that referenced the IFPRI research on stunting in children, Evaluation of linear growth at higher altitudes (Jama Pediatrics). The study analyzed the height and age data of more than 950,000 children from 59 countries and showed that the growth rate of children living in an ideal family environment is the same as that of […]