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The Indian Express published an editorial on the recently released Global Hunger Index (GHI). 

To mark the World Food Day, UK’s Global Cause published an op-ed authored by IFPRI’s director-general Shenggen Fan on growing nutritious food in a sustainable way.

Recent reports that India’s ranking in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) has fallen significantly are based on misinterpretations of the GHI data.

Voice of America’s Africa 54 ran a report on the recently released Global Hunger Index, focusing on the region's performance. 

India’s Scroll.in, a news portal, published an article on the Global Hunger Index 2017 highlighting the country’s performance on the index. The report noted India has a “serious” hunger problem and ranks behind countries such as Bangladesh, Nepal, Iraq and North Korea, largely driven by higher rates of child malnutrition. The report ran in multiple […]

Reuters published an article on the Global Hunger Index 2017. The report noted that global hunger has fallen more than a quarter since 2000, but conflict and climate shocks are beginning to reverse these gains.

This year one country hit the threshold of 50, which signifies extremely alarming hunger levels. But, it is impossible to know exactly how severe hunger is in some of the world’s poorest countries that lack data to determine GHI scores.

Global hunger levels have fallen more than a quarter since 2000, but more recent rising hunger scores of several countries in the 2017 Global Hunger Index (GHI) underline how uneven this progress has been and how precarious it is to maintain.

India's Financial Express published an op-ed on the need for agricultural reforms in eastern India to improve food security and reduce poverty.

NPR published a report on the devastating after effects of disasters such as the recent hurricanes and floods on aspirations and economic choices of those affected based on a recent IFPRI study co-authored by Senior Research Fellow Katrina Kosec.