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The Daily Observer published an article on a recent IFPRI study on aquaculture in Bangladesh. The study, “The ‘quiet revolution’ in the aquaculture value chain in Bangladesh“, led by Research Coordinator Ricardo Hernandez finds that the market for farmed fish grew 25 times over three decades. Dr. Hernandez explained the benefits of commercially sold farmed fish […]

August 9, Washington, D.C. – Bangladesh is experiencing a quiet revolution in its domestic fish farming market, with significant gains among all the players in the industry, according to a recent journal article from researchers at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Debunking the traditional view that fish farming in Bangladesh is mainly subsistence […]

Research fellows Devesh Roy and Avinash Kishore, and research analyst Vinay Sonkar from IFPRI’s South Asia Office coauthored an op-ed in India’s Financial Express. The article examines India’s Public distribution System (PDS), a social protection scheme to provide food security to India’s poor, and the need for a comprehensive assessment of the program. The authors suggest […]

CNBC quoted Senior Research Fellow Joe Glauber for an article on US trade action against China. The article suggests that US agriculture played a role in the US’s decision to hold off from taking trade action such as imposing tariffs or trade penalties. Dr. Glauber explained that China would most likely target soybean in any […]

Nigeria’s The Nation published an article on the 2017 Global Food Policy Report launch event in Abuja. The article focused on the country’s food security challenges in part due to rapid urbanization, a central theme from the conference. IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan spoke on the importance of rural-urban linkages to connect city residents with […]

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 […]