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Shenggen Fan, Director General, and P.K. Joshi, Director for South Asia, authored an op-ed in India’s Financial Express on strengthening rural-urban linkages as the key to achieve Sustainable Development Goals in India. The article highlights the 2017 Global Food Policy Report’s findings on how rapid urbanization presents challenges to rural and urban agriculture and nutrition. […]

New Delhi, India – On Thursday, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Trust for Advancement of Agricultural Sciences, and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research began a two-day international conference in New Delhi on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through agriculture in India.   While India met several of the Millennium Development […]

Washington, D.C. – The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) announced today the launch of the Ag-Incentives Consortium website, a user-friendly online database facilitated by IFPRI, that aggregates agricultural policy data into an interactive tool for guiding more informed policy. The Ag-Incentives Consortium brings together data from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the […]

Sri Lanka’s The Island wrote an article on post harvest loss of fruits and vegetables, and more broadly, about the International Food Policy Research Institute’s cosponsored event, “Emerging Food Safety and Quality Risks in South Asia: Challenges and Opportunities for Sri Lanka,” which featured Minister of Primary Industries Daya Gamage and Director South Asia P.K. […]

International Experts Outline Food Safety Risks, Regulations, and Impact of Urbanization Colombo, Sri Lanka – On Monday, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Ministry of Primary Industries, and the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka began a two-day international workshop in Colombo on emerging food safety and quality risks in South Asia […]

Suresh Babu, Head of Capacity Strengthening, authored an op-ed in the Inter Press Service about the need for development aid, directed toward drought- and conflict-vulnerable countries, to build resilient food systems in order to provide immediate relief and long-term development. The article goes on to explain that resilience of food systems relies on political, institutional and agricultural […]

Danielle Resnick, senior research fellow, authored an op-ed in The Conversation about informal food markets in Africa. Informal markets and street vendors play a critical role in many African cities. In a study of 11 African cities, 70 percent of households regularly purchase their food from informal markets. The article suggests that rather than shutting […]

Bangladesh’s Financial Express wrote an article on IFPRI’s Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) Baseline Study. The ANGeL survey, aimed to identify the most effective actions to increase agricultural diversity, improve nutrition and promote women’s empowerment, intends to guide the Ministry of Agriculture’s policy decisions. Two policy recommendations, as described in the article, included greater […]

Food Tank wrote an article on the 2017 Global Food Policy Report theme of urbanization. The piece focused on how urbanization and rapid urban population growth will put pressure on the global food system, and how countries must take urbanization into account to achieve the United Nation’s (U.N.) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of ending hunger, […]

On April 21, 2017, IFPRI will begin the first phase of our relocation to 1201 Eye Street NW, Washington, DC 20005. Approximately 40% of IFPRI will move during this first phase, and the remainder will move in April 2018. This is an exciting change for the institute, providing an opportunity to consolidate and improve IFPRI’s facilities, […]