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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, […]

In an article for The Times of India, chief minister of the Congress election manifesto Amarinder Singh named PK Joshi to an expert group panel to address the amount of agricultural debt and means for a waiver. Along with PK, former chairman of Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) T Haque leads the group […]

Xiaobo Zhang, senior research fellow, authored an op-ed in the Nikkei Asian Review about the surprising link between China’s one-child policy and rising house prices. Despite home price-to-income and home price-to-rent ratios in major Chinese cities being much higher than their counterparts in developed countries, China has one of the highest homeownership rates in the world. […]

Bob Baulch, senior research fellow, authored an op-ed in Malawi’s biggest national paper, The Nation. The article questioned the government’s latest maize export ban. Baulch argues that the ban will have detrimental effects in Malawi by denying local companies and farmers potential income, which also negatively impacts future harvest cycles. It goes on to explain […]

Devesh Roy and PK Joshi authored an op-ed in India’s Financial Express about the need for new contract farming laws. Model contract farming law can benefit farmers and improve marketing efficiency, but has to be business-friendly. Roy and Joshi argue the main objective is to “assure procurement from farmers at remunerative prices, while mitigating risks […]

In an article for the Financial Times, Joe Glauber mentioned that world demand of soyabeans has been “phenomenal” in large part to dietary changes in China and Thailand. Glauber emphasized that China imports three-fifths of the world’s internationally traded soyabeans, and that domestic cultivation of soyabeans is used primarily for food such as tofu as […]