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Financial Times published a news article about the continued rise in temperatures and how climate change threatens future crop yields from the Midwestern United States.  Senior Research Fellow Keith Wiebe was included in the article explaining model projections that show how crop yields would be different if climate change was not an environmental threat.

The Straits Times wrote a piece about the 2018 Global Nutrition Report, in which it detailed the changes in childhood stunting and anemia in Cambodia, Indonesia, Vietnam, India, and other developing countries in South Asia.  Director General Shenggen Fan was quoted in the article highlighting the nuances of nutrition that people must continue to understand. 

With hunger and obesity on the rise, a global forum aims to catalyze urgent action to end all forms of undernutrition by 2030. 28 November 2018, Bangkok, Thailand – With rising levels of global hunger putting the  goal of ending malnutrition in all its forms by 2030 in serious jeopardy, the Food and Agriculture Organization […]

Thomson Reuters Foundation News published an op-ed by IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan. Fan spoke about the need to convene and discuss the investments, policies, and innovations that will catalyze the next decade of reductions in hunger and malnutrition ahead of the Accelerating the End of Hunger and Malnutrition conference this week in Bangkok with […]

Tribun News published a news piece about governments’ ideas of taxing red meat in response to findings that show it is carcinogenic.  Research from IFPRI researchers Keith Wiebe and Sherman Robinson was included in the article, estimating the meat tax in around 150 countries.  

The Food and Agriculture Organization interviewed Nienke Beintema, Program Head of IFPRI’s Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators initiative on YouTube during their International Symposium on Agricultural Innovation.  Beintema argued that increasing food demands can be supplied with viable research systems adapting technologies that are developed by international research centers to fight soil degradation and climate change. 

In Nigeria, higher nighttime light intensity (a proxy for urbanization) is associated with lower rates of stunting among children & obesity in women.

SciDev published an article about the growing dangers from pesticide overuse among Indian farmers.  Suresh Babu, Head of Capacity Strengthening at IFPRI, was quoted in the article warning of the risks farmers endure because they carry out the task of spraying crops manually.

November 15, Washington, D.C.: I have informed IFPRI staff and supporters that my second, five-year term as Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) will conclude in one year, December 2019.  Upon completing my tenure, I will return to China and continue my life’s work to reduce hunger, malnutrition, and poverty around […]

The Telegraph published an op-ed by Senior Research Fellow Derek Headey that discusses the importance of animal-source foods in combating malnutrition and stunting in developing countries. Headey highlighted challenges of getting sufficient nutrients into a baby’s growing body and the healthier nutrition outcomes attained through animal-source foods.