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Former IFPRI Director Appointed to RBI Board (Times of India)
February 10, 2017
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.
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Report Shows Chinese Home Prices Inflated by Marriage Competition
February 10, 2017
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 […]
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Major Fertilizer Company Accused of Ripping Off Farmers (Independent)
February 09, 2017
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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Study Finds Links to Young Children’s Slower Growth (Financial Express)
February 07, 2017
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.”
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Can Myanmar Sustain Growth Momentum? (Nikkei Asian Review)
February 07, 2017
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 […]
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Bringing Cheer to Agriculture (Financial Chronicle)
February 03, 2017
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.”
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U.S. Ag Exports Could Lose Big in China, Mexico Trade Wars (Bloomberg BNA)
February 01, 2017
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.
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Report: Pakistan must invest in ag sector for improving resilience, yield (Dawn)
January 31, 2017
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.