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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 […]

Research by IFPRI Research Fellow Kelly Jones was featured prominently in stories in the Atlantic, the New York Times, and the New Yorker this week about an executive order from President Trump which bans American foreign aid from going to organizations that discuss abortion as a family planning option, otherwise known as the Mexico City […]

Exposure to animal feces has been linked to slower physical growth in young children according to a new report from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). The study, published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, looked at the growth, health and hygiene conditions of 6000 children aged 6-24 months in Bangladesh, […]

The Citizen out of Tanzania reported on new analysis from Claudia Ringler, IFPRI’s deputy director of the Environment and Production Technology Division, which argued that investments in advanced irrigation are a much-needed component for increasing food security in Africa and around the world. New investments could reduce prices of key crops while meeting growing demand […]