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With the UN declaring some three million people in East Africa on the verge of famine, Voice of America’s “Africa 54” spoke with Senior Research Fellow Ephraim Nkonya about how African nations can avoid such acute food crises. Nkonya explains how stable governance, diversifying incomes, and empowering women can help create an environment capable of […]

A groundbreaking paper based on a collaborative project between IFPRI and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign finds hydropower and irrigation often come into direct competition. 

Overlapping responsibilities between Nigeria’s federal and state government levels has led to poor coordination in public spending, according to a report of a lecture by IFPRI Senior Research Fellow Tewodaj Mogues. She acknowledged current efforts to strengthen inter-governmental coordination in agricultural spending, but emphasized that obstacles like weakened local legislatures remain. 

India is forecasting record wheat production in 2016 and 2017, according to a report in the Business Standard newspaper. IFPRI South Asia Director P.K. Joshi says that the reason for this record production despite demonetization is that 80 per cent of India’s rural economy ran on credit, and that sowing had begun before the controversial […]

Poor working conditions and unsafe practices were common at slaughterhouses in Western Kenyan according to new research covered by All Africa. Veterinary Epidemiologist Elizabeth Cook  says that these hygiene practices increase the risk of disease transmission from animals to humans. IFPRI supported this research through a grant.

While China’s unprecedented late-20th century growth was fueled by low labor costs and an enormous labor force, that easy growth is ending, argues a new article in the Journal of Economic Perspectives. “From ‘Made in China’ to ‘Innovated in China:’ Necessity, Prospect, and Challenges” makes the case that China’s old business model will no longer […]

While Bangladesh’s agricultural sector provides an important economic growth engine, its growth rate has slowed from six percent to one percent in recent years. An important survey from IFPRI sheds some light on the culprit, according to Bangladesh’s English-language Financial Express newspaper. The study found that of loans disbured by the state-owned bank, only 14 […]

Mishtalk, an economics blog, reported on analysis from Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber about the likely impacts of a trade war on U.S. Agriculture. According to Glauber, U.S.Agricultural exports averaged $142 billion in recent years, with a positive trade balance. This balance could be hurt by retaliatory tariffs or protectionist economic policies. 

Former IFPRI director Ashok Gulati was named to the board of the Reserve Bank of India, according to the Times of India. Gulati was previously chairman of India’s Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices, and was director of IFPRI from 2001 to 2011. 

The rapid rise of home prices in many Chinese provinces can most readily be explained by the drive to attract a prospective sexual partner, finds a new analysis from the International Food Policy Research Institute. “Home Ownership as Status Competition: Some Theory and Guidance,” published by Shang-In Wei, Xiaobo Zhang, and Yin Liu in the […]