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Rural Communities Trapped in Poverty: Survey (Post-Courier)
June 13, 2019
Recent findings from an IFPRI survey on food consumption in Papua New Guinea found poor households were not getting enough food. Researcher Emily Schmidt calls for increased access to education to improve rural families' predicaments.
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International Food Policy Research Needs New Partnerships (China Science Daily)
June 11, 2019
China Science Daily reported on IFPRI Senior Research Fellow Liangzhi You’s call for more partnerships between international agricultural research organizations—including IFPRI—to build partnerships with China in a recent blog. The article also noted one such partnership at the Macro Agricultural Research Institute (MARI), an international interdisciplinary research institute established jointly by IFPRI and Huazhong Agricultural […]
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Less government loans push farmers to high-interest public loans (Prothom Alo)
June 11, 2019
Bangladesh’s Daily Prothom Alo reported on the finding that the country’s farmers take out higher-interest loans from the private sector because few low-interest government loans are available. The article drew from a 2015 IFPRI assessment quoting Akhter Ahmed, who said farmers take out loans to buy agricultural inputs, so if rates were lowered, production costs would go […]
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Trump says there’s a ‘good chance’ that Mexico averts tariffs with deal that includes purchase of US farm goods (CNBC)
June 07, 2019
CNBC reported on President Donald Trump’s statement that Mexico could avoid tariffs by purchasing more US agricultural goods. The article quoted Joseph Glauber, who called into question the logic of President Trump’s statement, given that Mexico’s private importers—not the government—do the majority of this purchasing. He pointed out that a number of US producers would […]
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2019 Global Food Policy Report: Improved Regional Ties and Agricultural Reforms Offer Promising Opportunities for Rural Revitalization and Improved Food and Nutrition Security in Central Asia
June 01, 2019
Tashkent: To meet growing demand for employment in rural areas and improve food security, Uzbekistan needs to strengthen the role of the private sector in its economy by accelerating reforms, improving institutional framework, and exploring opportunities for regional integration in Central Asia, according to the 2019 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) launched today by the […]
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Proper policy needed for ensuring fair paddy price
May 31, 2019
In an interview with Bangladesh’s Daily Sun Akhter Ahmed discusses how public policies can strike a balance between what farmers are paid for producing rice, and providing affordable prices for consumers to purchase rice.
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2019 Global Food Policy Report: Improved Regional Ties and Agricultural Reforms Offer Promising Opportunities for Rural Revitalization and Improved Food and Nutrition Security in the Eurasian Region
May 29, 2019
Moscow: To meet growing demand for employment in rural areas and improve food security, countries in Eurasia need to strengthen the role of the private sector in their economies by accelerating reforms, improving their institutional frameworks, and exploring opportunities for regional integration, according to the 2019 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) launched today by the […]
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How to transform food systems to feed the world and prevent mass extinctions
May 21, 2019
Shenggen Fan published an op-ed with the Thomson Reuters Foundation. He wrote that by addressing the whole system by which we grow, buy, and eat our food, we can achieve multiple wins to maintain biodiversity for planetary and human health.
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To solve child malnourishment, India must first target child marriage (Quartz India)
May 17, 2019
Quartz India published an article based on an IFPRI analysis of adolescent births in India. IFPRI researchers Phong Hong Nguyen, Samuel Scott and Purnima Menon analyzed 60,096 mother-child pairs, of which 14,107 women (about 25%) first gave birth during adolescence. They found that stunting and underweight prevalence were over 10 percentage points higher in children born to adolescent mothers than in […]
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NEW STUDY: Teen pregnancy still a major challenge in India, strongly linked to child stunting
May 16, 2019
Study examines links between teen pregnancy and child undernutrition in India.