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IFPRI research is at the center of a major debate over fertilizer price increases in Ireland, where the Irish Farmers’ Association argues that farmers are being ripped off. Ireland’s Independent newspaper reported that an IFPRI study by Senior Research Fellows Antoine Bouet and David Laborde Debucquet which makes the case that a failure of competition […]

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Bangladesh’s English-language Financial Express newspaper reported on a study by Senior Research Fellow Derek Headey that found a link between childhood exposure to animal feces and stunting. Stunting has serious implications, Headey said, because “it’s strongly associated with poor health and cognition as well as reduced educational attainment and subsequent lifetime earnings.”

The Nikkei Asian Review quoted a research blog post by Senior Program Manager Adam Kennedy that highlighted the need to boost agricultural productivity in Myanmar in order to raise rural incomes and reduce poverty and malnutrition. The article discussed the other barriers to sustained economic growth in Myanmar including a changing economic focus, an uncertain […]

Director for South Asia Pramod K. Joshi penned an opinion piece in India’s Financial Chronicle that analyzed the impact of India’s 2017 budget on the agriculture sector. “Overall,” he wrote, “the budget is pro-farmer and agriculture. It is an attempt to strengthen agriculture and step forward to double farmers’ incomes by 2020.”

Bloomberg Business News Analysis reports that, according to IFPRI Senior Research Fellow Joe Glauber, the imposition of import tariffs could lead to retaliation against U.S. exports. Agriculture is especially vulnerable to this threat, as 28 percent of U.S. agricultural exports – amounting to $37.7 billion – go to Mexico and China.  

Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper reported on “Agriculture and the Rural Economy in Pakistan,” a new book edited by Senior Research Fellow David Spielman and others. The book, now available for purchase, calls for new investments in Pakistan’s farming sector, as well as high-level investment in water security and policy reform.

Adjusting Nepal’s complex agricultural economy to the federalist system laid out by the new constitution will require some adjustment, but a new paper from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) proposes several policy measures to ease the transition. “Nepal’s 2072 Federal Constitution: Implications for the Governance of the Agricultural Sector” looks at how wisdom […]

Bloomberg View published a piece analyzing a new paper by IFPRI Deputy Division Director Xinshen Diao and Senior Research Fellow Margaret McMillan that examines the explanations for slow growth in the economies of Latin America and Africa South of the Sahara. Their research showed that Latin American economies have suffered from a lack of positive structural […]