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International Business Times (Singapore) published an article on the economic impact of stubble burning, an estimated economic loss of more than $30 billion, according to an IFPRI study, The study, Risk of acute respiratory infection from crop burning in India: estimating disease burden and economic welfare from satellite and national health survey data for 250,000 […]

D + C – Development and Cooperation published an op-ed on “Rurbanomics” from Director General Shenggen Fan and Director of IFPRI’s Director for Africa Ousmane Badiane. Rurbanomics is an approach that emphasizes the interrelatedness and interdependency of rural and urban economies. Rural and urban areas must be partners, and rural areas can do much more than produce […]

BBC World Service interviewed IFPRI, Director of South Asia,  Shahidur Rashidur on his new co-edited book, The Making of a “Blue Revolution” in Bangladesh and the future of aquaculture in the country.

Agri-pulse published a comment by Sylvan Roy on the jointly released by BIFAD, APLU, and IFPRI report, How the United States benefits from agricultural and food security investments in developing countries. The underlying focus of the report articulates the economic benefits to the U.S., but how “technology spillover” produces benefits for the beneficiaries as well […]

Agri-pulse published a comment by Sylvan Roy on the jointly released by BIFAD, APLU, and IFPRI report, How the United States benefits from agricultural and food security investments in developing countries. The underlying focus of the report articulates the economic benefits to the U.S., but the authors are expansive in their perspective about how such […]

News18 (India) published an article on the implementation of a New Seeds Bill. Research Fellow Avinash Kishore stated that the bill “reverses” the provisions on self-certification or certification by accredited private agencies,” but he added, “agriculture in India is burdened by overregulation and the new Seed Bill is not going to reduce that problem.”

News18 (India) reported on the potential of a new bill to change the agriculture sector in India, but how it will be done is still in question.  Research Fellow Avinash Kishore explained that the new bill reverses requirements for overcertification, however, agriculture in India is burdened by overregulation and the new Seed Bill is not […]

D + C = Development + Cooperation (Germany) reported that urban poverty tends to be underestimated. IFPRI found that in Kenya, urban areas have higher income inequality than rural areas, and that 1.3 million rural Kenyans and up to 4 million urban Kenyans were food insecure in 2008. Similar statistics are found in other African […]

Egyp Saudi (Egypt) reported on an IFPRI’s study on climate change in Yemen. According to the study climate change will have a negative impact on Yemen’s future development, and the number of poor and food insecure people will increase, as climate change leads to higher food prices and a long-term decline in agricultural yields. Republished in […]

Daily Observer (Bangladesh reported on the new IFPRI book, “The Making of the ‘Blue Revolution’ in Bangladesh.” The book found that the growing aquaculture industry in Bangladesh was responsible for two million of the 18 million people who escaped poverty between 2000 and 2010.