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Political activist Harsh Mander authored an opinion article in India’s National Herald about the government’s inaction in combating hunger and the country’s poor ranking on the Global Hunger Index. Mander criticizes the government for placing its attention on economic success, rather than investing in agriculture and public health. The GHI ranks India fifth from the […]

Nigeria’s Vanguard covered the 2017 Global Food Policy Report launch event in Abuja. The article focused on the event’s central theme of food insecurity in a country experiencing rapid urbanization and continuing malnutrition. Director General Shenggen Fan stressed the need for the federal government to invest in agricultural research in order to maximize agricultural productivity.

The Thomson Reuters Foundation published an article on food security in North Korea, which highlighted the Global Hunger Index. The country is facing severe food shortages because of an extreme drought. The article cites the GHI findings that in 2016 two in every five people in North Korea were undernourished. The article ran in 17 […]

India Spend, a nonprofit public interest journalism platform, published an opinion article by IFPRI Project Manager Vartika Singh on C-section rates in India. Singh highlights the regional disparity of very high C-section rates and very low C-section rates because of information asymmetry, where some regions over-treat, while others under-treat. Singh argues that the country needs smarter healthcare […]

IFPRI senior research fellow Joe Glauber was quoted in a story from the Washington Post about the connection between trade and nutrition. The article looks at how trade agreements, most notably NAFTA, have impacted the production and consumption of processed unhealthy foods, such as high-fructose corn syrup. Dr. Glauber argues that direct investment and advertising […]

Paul Dorosh, Division Director of IFPRI’s Development Strategy and Governance Division, authored a piece in Media Planet’s Impacting Our Future. His article analyzed how countries vulnerable to famine and chronic hunger can learn from the successes of Bangladesh and Ethiopia is preventing famine. The piece was part of a collection that ran as a special feature […]

The Hindu Business Line reported that IFPRI has appointed Mahendra Dev to vice-chairman of the board of trustees. Dev, who currently serves as the director and vice-chancellor of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) in Mumbai, has dedicated his career to agriculture development, poverty and public policy, and food security. He has been an […]

India’s Business Standard published an op-ed by IFPRI researchers Manmeet Ajmani and Devesh Roy of the South Asia Office on India and China’s participation in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the region’s multilateral trading arrangement. The piece argues that while India and China have pursued ASEAN beginning around the same time, China has […]

Environmental Research Web published an article on the competition of water use between hydropower and irrigation. Deputy Division Director Claudia Ringler added that 54 percent of globally installed hydropower directly competes with irrigation, and that increased hydro-electricity production might reduce food security. The article also points out that, to a much lesser extent, the two […]

Africa News Tonight, a daily news radio program of Voice of America, interviewed IFPRI research fellow Mateusz Filipski for World Refugee Day. Dr. Filipski spoke about his research on the benefits of hosting refugees in Rwanda and Uganda. Refugees are contributing to their host economies through work opportunities and spending in local businesses.