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Channel Africa Radio interviews Katrina Kosec
October 19, 2018
South Africa’s Channel Africa Radio interviewed Katrina Kosec on her new research that found domestic migration in Pakistan lowers happiness despite increase in income. In the interview, Kosec pointed out migrants suffer an emotional setback due to a rising gap between their aspirations and their actual accumulation of assets.
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Feature: Go fish! Minnow ‘nutrient bombs’ deployed to end nutrition (Reuters)
October 18, 2018
Reuters published a news feature on the NutriFish 1000 campaign that aims to improve family nutrition in the first 1,000 days of life by getting pregnant women and children to eat small fish. The article quoted Director General Shenggen Fan, who busting the commonplace myth that small fish is waste, said that with small fish, […]
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Time to act: air pollution is damaging our brains as well as our lungs (The Telegraph)
October 18, 2018
UK’s The Telegraph published an op-ed by Senior Research Fellow Xiaobo Zhang who detailed his landmark study of air pollution and the cumulative impact it has on men and women’s cognitive functioning.
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Why did India really reject the human capital index? (Devex)
October 17, 2018
Devex released a news article about the controversial statistics of the most recent human capital index that India rejected. Senior Research Fellow Purnima Menon was quoted in the article stressing the importance of the human capital index.
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Rob Vos discusses the global struggle for food on World Food Day (CGTN America)
October 17, 2018
China’s CGTN America interviewed IFPRI’s Director of Markets, Trade and Institutions Division Rob Vos in a World Food Day TV segment about the double burden of nutrition plaguing developing countires in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
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Domestic migration makes people sadder and less calm, finds study (The print)
October 16, 2018
India’s The Print published an article amplifying the recent IFPRI research by Senior Research Fellow Katrina Kosec that examines the emotional wellbeing of domestic migrants in India and Pakistan.
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How will 9 billion or 10 billion people eat without destroying the environment? (The Washington Post)
October 16, 2018
The Washington Post published an article framing food consumption through the lens of global production growth and climate change. The article included research from Senior Research Fellow Keith Wiebe that provides options for keeping the food system within environmental limits.
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New Study: Domestic Migration Raises Incomes, Lowers Happiness
October 16, 2018
Domestic migrants experience a substantial decline in mental and physical health, despite a significant increase in their incomes at destination, according to a new study from researchers at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
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Great Expectations from Ethiopia’s Wheat Initiative (Thomson Reuters Foundation News)
October 09, 2018
Thomson Reuters Foundation News published an op-ed by several IFPRI researchers including Gashaw Tadesse Abate, Tanguy Bernard, Alan de Brauw, and Nicholas Minot, who examined the impact of Ethiopia’s Wheat Initiative on farmers’ yields to understand how programs can boost wheat yields in underperforming areas.
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IFPRI Partnership on Small Scale Irrigation Research Extended Five More Years with $12.5 Million Grant
October 06, 2018
October 5, Washington, D.C.: The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced a five-year extension of the Innovation Laboratory for Small Scale Irrigation (ILSSI), which will continue critical research from IFPRI and partners on improving small scale irrigation in the developing world. ILSSI is currently conducting small scale irrigation research in Ethiopia, Tanzania, and […]