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The Colombo Gazette reported on a recent meeting between Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena and IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan, who discussed formulating a policy to mitigate malnutrition and food crop destruction. 

CNBC Africa conducted a live interview with Research Fellow Dr. Getaw Tadesse Gebreyohanes about the continent’s most recent agriculture trade monitor report.  Dr. gebreyohanes highlighted trends and factors that affect Africa’s exports including institutional inefficiencies that increase trade costs across borders.

Cargill and The Economist outlined the necessary transformations to Asia’s food system in order to produce more while ensuring the highest safety standards.  Director General Shenggen Fan was quoted in the report calling for institutions, governments, and enterprises to apply economic and health lenses to to the food system problems to accelerate progress. 

The Financial Times included research from IFPRI and the Food and Agriculture Organization in an op-ed about the greatest displacements of people coming from areas experiencing conflict and high levels of food insecurity.  In places like Africa where two-thirds of the working population depends on agriculture, investments that create vibrant rural economies, improve access to […]

Vanguard quoted Senior Research Fellow and Head of Capacity Strengthening at IFPRI, Suresh Babu, in an article that called for total overhaul of the Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria because of ineffective governance, lack of funding, low human capacity, and poor communication and distribution of research findings.  Babu highlighted several solutions including strengthening human resources […]

Economist published an article on a new study from China that highlights air-pollution concerns. Senior Research Fellow Xiaobo Zhang was quoted.  

CNN has amplified data examined by IFPRI researcher Xiaobo Zhang in a news feature that argues accumulative exposure to air pollutants significantly impacts cognitive abilities.  As a result, dirty air also imposes substantial health and economic costs, particularly for the elderly who rely on cognitive functioning to run daily errands and make high-stake economic decisions.

Washington, D.C.: While health has long been thought the most common casualty of air pollution, a landmark study from an International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) researcher establishes for the first time that exposure to air pollution over a long period significantly impacts cognitive abilities, as measured through steep reduction in verbal and math tests […]

Washington, D.C.: Milk consumption has   a large impact on linear growth in the crucial first 1,000 days of an infant’s life, reducing stunting by 10.4 point among children in Bangladesh, according to a new study by a researcher at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).. “Increasing access to dairy products can be extremely beneficial […]

Bangladesh’s Financial Express published a news feature detailing the low levels of per capita milk consumption in the country due to severe land constraints and a historical unavailability of milk.  Evidence from IFPRI researcher Derek Headey’s study concluded that milk consumption during the first 1,000 days of an infant’s life reduces stunting by as much […]