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New data offers insights into rural poverty and undernutrition in Papua New Guinea (Reuters)
March 26, 2019
Reuters published an opinion article by Research Fellow, Emily Schmidt, based on IFPRI’s ongoing work in Papua New Guinea. In the article, Schmidt highlighted how lack of data has hampered the country’s efforts to curb hunger and malnutrition.
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Unlocking the potential of the Nigeria Community Exchange (Punch Nigeria)
March 15, 2019
Shahidur Rashid explains why the Nigerian government or donor support of the commodity exchange is important to realize sufficient trade volumes (Nigeria's Punch).
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Shahidur Rashid appointed Director for South Asia
March 13, 2019
Shahidur Rashid succeeds Pramod Joshi as the new Director for South Asia based in New Delhi
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Air scare: Why isn’t India’s pollution emergency a poll issue? (Forbes India)
March 12, 2019
Forbes India wrote an article on India’s high rates of air pollution. Research conducted by Research Fellows Samuel Scott and Avinash Kishore as well as Senior Research Fellow Devesh Roy was included in the piece, referring to crop burning in North India that has negative health and financial outcomes for the country.
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Will the latest superfood come from Africa? Ethiopian traditional fruit is a dream to avoid wheat – and it was already patented in Europe (YLE)
March 10, 2019
Finland’s YLE released an article highlighting the country’s gluten-free crop, teff, gaining traction as a superfood, essential ingredient, and top export. Senior Research Fellow Bart Minten and Research Fellow Kalle Hirvonen were interviewed in the article, cautioning major exportation of the crop as it would increase domestic prices for Ethiopians.
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Access to formal credit increases income of farmers (The Hindu BusinessLine)
March 10, 2019
Research fellow Anjani Kumar explains to Hindu Businessline why farmers with access to institutional credit earn more than farmers dependent on credit from informal sources such as loan sharks.
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How India’s anganwadi system is getting some things very right despite its many flaws (The Hindu)
March 10, 2019
The Hindu published an editorial about India’s Integrated Child Development Services intervention program. The article included research conducted by Senior Research Fellow Purnima Menon and Research Fellow Kalyani Raghunathan that pointed to the country’s poorest sections of the population—including women—who were left out of the program.
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Govt committed to ensuring availability of nutritious food: Minister (Daily Sun)
March 08, 2019
The Daily Sun wrote an article about IFPRI’s policy workshop titled Agricultural Transformation in Bangladesh: Evidence on Biotechnology and Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture. Senior Research Fellow Akhter Ahmed was present to share the impact of the BT Brinjal Technology in Bangladesh. The event was amplified by numerous Bangladeshi outlets.
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Act fast to halt the declining insect numbers (SciDev)
March 06, 2019
Wei Zhang explains how and why researchers, development practitioners, and policy makers should act to stop dramatically declining insect numbers and protect natural habitats.
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The link between crop burning and respiratory illness is a health and economic timebomb (The Telegraph)
March 05, 2019
Telegraph published an op-ed by Research Fellows Samuel Scott and Avinash Kishore as well as Senior Research Fellow Devesh Roy who called attention to respiratory infections being the leading cause of chronic disease in children globally and of death in developing countries. The article explored the first-of-its-kind study linking crop residue burning and acute respiratory infection, estimating its […]