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My Food, My Future
Calling youth to submit videos with their ideas to end hunger and malnutrition to enter a chance to win $500 and have the film screened at IFPRI-FAO’s upcoming Accelerating End of Hunger and Malnutrition conference in November in Bangkok. ( Video Contest) |
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Irrigation Dilemma: In Malawi, irrigation expansion is critical to increasing crop yields and mitigating climate change effects but investments in irrigation do not cover the costs, find James Thurlow and Richard Robertson.
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Seeds & Fertilizers: Adam Komarek, Jawoo Koo, Ulrike Wood-Sichra and Liangzhi You find that input intensification by increasing rates of better seed adoption and fertilizer application to 39 percent in Tanzania will lead to US$ 697 million in benefits for both producers and consumers over five years. (Article)
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Taking Pulse: Suman Chakrabarti, Avinash Kishore and Devesh Roy find no sizable difference in the total pulse consumption or the total protein intake among poor in Indian states where subsidized pulses are available. (Article)
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Bettering Half: Involvement of husbands in a maternal nutrition program in Bangladesh substantially improved women’s intake of micro-nutrient supplements and dietary diversity, find Phuong Hong Nguyen, Marie Ruel and Purnima Menon. (Article)
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Game of Thrones: Greater political competition in a state legislature leads to improved access to public infrastructure and amenities in rural areas, but status-quo in perceived access to justice and security, conclude Katrina Kosec, David Spielman and Fatima Zaidi based on their research in Pakistan. (Article)
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It’s the Air Pollution, Silly!
Xiaobo Zhang finds protracted exposure to air pollution in China lowers intelligence, leading to a sharper decline in verbal scores among men, as compared to women, and more so as men age. ( Read More)
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IFPRI at a Glance
A vibrant new brochure provides an overview of IFPRI and its work across the globe. (Read More)
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Food Lens: Guest blogger, John Ingram, recommends focusing on food systems and demand to address the triple burden of malnutrition: consuming too few calories or too many calories and not receiving sufficient nutrients. (Blog)
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Great Expectations: Unrealistic expectations from a video-mediated agricultural extension trial in Ethiopia led to some disappointment among stakeholders, but David Spielman, Simrin Makhija, Gashaw Abate and Tanguy Bernard demonstrate that the results are indeed promising. (Blog)
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Pearls of Nutrition: Samuel Scott explains how and why iron-biofortified pearl millet improves cognition, as evidenced in research conducted among adolescents in India. (Blog)
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Global Imbalance: Trade conflict between US and China has the potential for disastrous outcomes for not only both countries, but also for agricultural markets across the world, argues Shenggen Fan. (Blog)
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 “The agricultural policy thrust of the [Nigerian] administration is committed to seeing agriculture run as a business, with plans in place to return the nation to an agro-economy footing that was abandoned with the discovery of oil.” Audu Ogbeh, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Nigeria (Blog)
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“Egypt’s agricultural sector needs a sustainable and inclusive growth strategy to resolve both short- and long-term challenges. This can only be done through solving the supply side challenges of the agriculture sector, there needs to be not only more jobs available in the agriculture sector, but rather more decent jobs in the agriculture sector.” Ahmed Kamaly, Deputy Minister for Planning Affairs, Egypt
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