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Nepal’s The Himilayan published an Op-Ed by Anjani Kumar on food safety in the dairy industry.Food safety is a vital component of food security, however, in many developing countries, compliance to food safety measures (FSM) have remained elusive.  The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) undertook a comprehensive study on compliance with FSM in Nepal’s milk […]

India’s Financial Express has published an Op-Ed by Anjani Kumar.  This Op-Ed looks at the success of India’s public distribution system (PDS) in Odisha, a state marred with a high incidence of poverty, hunger and malnutrition.  In 2004, Odisha began with a state-of-the-art PDS to cover the entire network for greater transparency and accountability. The PDS took into […]

Revamped Public Distribution System (PDS) can play pivotal role in ensuring food and nutrition security in India. 

December 27, 2017 – A good monsoon led to a rise in sowing and production of pulses in 2017, resulting in prices falling almost by half. Earlier, in 2015, rising prices causing declining consumption of pulses had been a cause of concern for both nutrition and food inflation in policy corridors. For a long time, […]

Report on the nutritional profile of India's state of Madhya Pradesh recently released by IFPRI-SAO. 

India's business daily, Mint, published a report on recently released nutritional profiles of all states in India, depicting high burden of malnutrition in the country. 

Report on the potential loss of revenue due to a maize export ban in the country.

Financial Times published a report on precision farming’s role in increasing agricultural productivity and reducing environmental impacts of farming.
 

Financial Times published an op-ed by Rwanda’s agriculture minister referencing IFPRI's finding that agricultural investments increase GDP. 

Xiaobo Zhang finds air pollution negatively affects mental health and cognition, raising questions about development efforts focused solely on GDP.