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Agriculture is the Key to a Prosperous Africa (Financial Times)
December 07, 2017
Financial Times published an op-ed by Rwanda’s agriculture minister referencing IFPRI's finding that agricultural investments increase GDP.
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Air Pollution Casts a Shadow Over Development (FT)
November 30, 2017
Xiaobo Zhang finds air pollution negatively affects mental health and cognition, raising questions about development efforts focused solely on GDP.
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Distorted Sex-Ratio Plays Havoc with Marriage in China (The Economist)
November 29, 2017
The Economist published a feature examining the impact of a skewed sex ratio on marriages in the Chinese society, leading to high bride prices.
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Female Agricultural Researchers in Africa Continue to Rise (Quartz Africa)
November 29, 2017
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.
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The Inequalities of Hunger (The Financial Express)
November 27, 2017
Bangladesh’s The Financial Express published a detailed feature on the recently released Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2017 in the newspaper’s special edition.
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Malawi Must Move from Relief to Resilience (The Nation)
November 24, 2017
Vice-President of Malawi Saulos Chilima outlines in an op-ed the actions urgently required to move Malawi from food relief to building food system resilience, based on his keynote address at IFPRI's Compact 2025 Forum.
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A distorted sex ratio is playing havoc with marriage in China (Economist)
November 24, 2017
Economist published an article on the shortage of brides that is bending Chinese society out of shape. Senior Research Fellow Xiaobo Zhang was quoted.
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Gender Gap Shrinks in Agricultural Research in Africa South of the Sahara (Channel Africa)
November 23, 2017
Channel Africa, the radio arm of South Africa Broadcasting Corporation, interviewed Agriculture Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI)’s Program Head, Nienke Beintema, on her latest research related to shrinking gender gap in agricultural research in Africa south of the Sahara. In the radio broadcast, Beintema explained despite improvement in number of women joining research in some countries, […]
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Can sub-Saharan Africa Feed Itself? (Environmental Science Journal for Kids)
November 21, 2017
Environmental Science Journal for Kids, an initiative to make climate change and environmental science research accessible to kids and teens, adapted IFPRI’s latest research by Keith Wiebe and Daniel Mason-D’Croz.
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Polluting Happiness (The News)
November 20, 2017
Pakistan’s The News published a feature on rising air pollution in Lahore, referring to Xiaobo Zhang’s latest research “Happiness in the Air: How a Dirty Sky Affects Mental Health and Subjective Well-being”.