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Dhaka, Bangladesh, October 24, 2016 – On Monday, the Ministry of Agriculture and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) jointly announced the inauguration of the IFPRI Bangladesh office at an event in Dhaka. Mr. Mohammad Nazmul Islam, Additional Secretary (PPC), Ministry of Agriculture and Dr. Shenggen Fan, Director General, IFPRI signed the Memorandum of […]

Senior Research Fellow David Laborde, Research Assistant Tess Lallemant, and researchers from the International Institute for Sustainable Development penned a piece for The Huffington Post that aims to determine whether the global community can end hunger by the 2030 United Nations deadline. The op-ed mentions a new study by Laborde, Lallemant, and the IISD researchers that found it will cost $11 […]

The 2016 Global Hunger Index was featured in a piece published by Yahoo! News. According to the article: “Called the Global Hunger Index, the report paints a reality very different from India 2020. Far from becoming a superpower, India has failed to provide its people with that most basic of rights: freedom from hunger.”

October 18, 2016, Accra, Ghana—The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) is having a positive impact in countries that have implemented its recommendations, according to the 2015 Annual Trends and Outlook Report (ATOR) released today. The report outlines how agriculture and food systems can improve food security and improve the health and productivity in Africa. The […]

Lucy Westcott of Newsweek wrote a story about the 2016 Global Hunger Index that examined the countries with the world levels of hunger. “Chad and the Central African Republic have the highest levels of hunger in this year’s index, in addition to some of the lowest percentages of hunger reduction in the past two decades, according to […]

The editorial board of The Himalayan Times wrote an editorial about Nepal’s standing in the 2016 Global Hunger Index, released last week. According to the piece, published on Oct. 17, “Nepal should take a cue from its rating in the GHI and strive to do even better. There is no reason for Nepal to miss […]

IFPRI Senior Research Fellows Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Agnes Quisumbing and Research Analyst Sophie Theis wrote an op-ed debunking common myths about women in agriculture. The authors wrote that “widely circulated myths do contain a kernel of truth: in general, rural women work hard, with fewer resources at their disposition than men. But despite the good intentions behind them, they promote stereotypes […]

The Times of India covered the 2016 Global Hunger Index, noting that India ranked 97th on the list. According to the article, published on Oct. 13, “[c]ountries worse than India include extremely poor African countries such as Niger, Chad, Ethiopia and Sierra Leone besides two of India’s neighbours: Afghanistan and Pakistan. Other neighbours Sri Lanka, […]

The BBC featured Dr. Howarth Bouis in a story about the 2016 World Food Prize winners. Dr. Bouis recieved the award for his work promoting biofortification at a ceremony in Iowa this week. Read more about Dr. Bouis’ work and the World Food Prize in a press release that announced the news in June. The article […]

The Guardian wrote a story about the 2016 Global Hunger Index that examined Haiti’s “alarming” hunger levels. According the article, “more than half the 10 million population of the Caribbean country were undernourished before Matthew struck but the report suggests that little or no progress has been made in eradicating hunger there in the past 15 years.” The […]