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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.

The Economist published a feature examining the impact of a skewed sex ratio on marriages in the Chinese society, leading to high bride prices.

Quartz Africa published a feature on recent IFPRI research by Nienke Beintema on shrinking gender gap in agricultural research in Africa south of the Sahara.

Bangladesh’s The Financial Express published a detailed feature on the recently released Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2017 in the newspaper’s special edition.