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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.
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Urgent need to transform food systems for human and planetary health
May 11, 2019
Statement by Shenggen FanDirector General, IFPRIG20 Agriculture Ministers Meeting, Niigata, JapanMay 11, 2019 Distinguished guests, Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to commend the G20 Agriculture Ministers for recognizing the need to transform our food systems to achieve human and planetary health, and continuing to champion the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It cannot be […]
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Can you both feed the world and save the planet?
May 07, 2019
The Thomson Reuters Foundation published an article on feeding the world while reducing carbon emissions. IFPRI senior fellow, David Spielman is quoted about the need for public investment and multiple players in different sectors committing to reducing the environmental footprint of agriculture.
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Call for rural revitalization as Africa grapples with food insecurity
May 07, 2019
Shenggen Fan, IFPRI director general was interviewed in a video with CNBC Africa. Fan explained the importance of revitalizing rural areas and ways to do it, to achieve SDGs.
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Report calls for increased funding for agriculture
May 07, 2019
The 2019 Global Food Policy Report was covered in an article in Rwanda’s The New Times. Rwanda’s Prime Minister, Edouard Ngirente, said that the report details evidenced-based facts, the urgency of rural revitalization in order to address the crisis of food insecurity in rural areas. He also stated, “We strongly believe that this report will contribute […]
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Impromptu study reveals impact of cash transfers in conflict setting
May 07, 2019
Devex published an article on an IFPRI impact evaluation on cash transfers, Responding to conflict: Does “Cash Plus” work for preventing malnutrition? New evidence from an impact evaluation of Yemen’s Cash for Nutrition Program. The article reports on the unique circumstances IFPRI researchers found themselves in to conduct a randomized trial within a conflict setting, typically an […]