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Ecofriend.com published an article on air pollution and cognitive abilities. An IFPRI study conducted by team head Senior Research Fellow Xiaobo Zhang discovered that the math and verbal scores declined with increasing exposure to pollution, and the decline was more pronounced in elderly, less educated men. Air pollution took a bigger toll on verbal scores […]

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on Philadelphia residents who receive annual checks, often based on nothing more than their family connections to farms in states far afield from Pennsylvania. Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber asked, “Will we spend public dollars for poverty or some really large farm? I’m surprised this isn’t getting more attention.”

The Herald (Nigeria) published an article on the new partnership between the Delta government and IFPRI to create its new agricultural policy. IFPRI’s mandate is to work with key stakeholders to improve their service delivery, efficiency, and performance.Republished in Pointer News (Nigeria), Blueprint (Ngeria)

According to the FAO, each year about 1.3 billion tons of food produced for human consumption is lost after harvest and before reaching consumers. Postharvest losses not only reduce quantity but also the quality of stored grain and are amplified by changing weather patterns. Improved grain drying and storage can be key mitigators of postharvest loss, resulting […]

Sr. Research Fellow Joseph Glauber, on Global Business TV, "China has been the number one trading partner in agriculture with the U.S. and the hope is that they’ll regain that status."

St. Louis Today reported on the latest with trade and soybeans. China has agreed to an increase in the amount of farm products it buys from the U.S., but the price of soybeans, historically the largest item on China’s shopping list, has hardly budged. Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber wishes the U.S. and China had spelled out details […]

Reason Online (USA) published an overview article about climate change and various scenarios to deal with an ever-growing population. The article cites the 2016 Global Food Policy Report projection that farmers will have to produce 70 percent more food over the next 30 years to feed everyone on the planet, and analysis that the technology already exists to accomplish that […]

The Morung Express (India) reported on findings from the India Health Report: Nutrition 2015, a report from IFPRI and the Public Health Foundation of India. The report revealed that 42.9% of the total children under the age of five in Meghalaya are stunted (indicative of chronic or cumulative nutritional deprivation in early childhood), while 40.6 children in Assam are found to […]

YLE (Finland) published an article on The Eat-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health and a follow-up study, Affordability of the EAT–Lancet reference diet: A global analysis that found the diet too expensive for as many as one and a half billion people, especially in Africa south of the Sahara and South Asia.  Senior Research Fellow Kalle Hirvonen, one of the coauthors of the Affordability study believes when the population becomes sufficiently wealthy, health […]

Foreign Policy published an article on malnutrition. Malnutrition is passed from one generation to the next between mother and child—unless someone commits to stopping the deadly cycle. A 2019 IFPRI study found that out of 60,000 first-time mothers in India those children born to teenage mothers were smaller and had a lower height-to-weight ratio on […]