IFPRI Insights: October 2018

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October 5, 2018

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All About Nutrition

Explore nutrition-themed resources spotlighting IFPRI’s cutting-edge research that provide critical data and analysis on improving nutrition globally, and accelerating the end of hunger and malnutrition. (Website)

Intense Cropping: Increasing cropping intensity has dual benefits: it enhances global food production and supports the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals of biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation, find Liangzhi You and Kevin Chen. (Article)

Water, Not Everywhere: Increasing irrigation efficiency through irrigation technologies alone is failing to reduce water consumption and, paradoxically, may even be making water scarcity worse, finds Claudia Ringler. (Article)

Hard Labor: Yanyan Liu finds mechanization and real wage growth of farm labor in India are the key reasons behind improved productivity of large-sized farms, in a period spanning 1982 to 2008. (Article)

Poor Implementation: Suman Chakrabarti, Avinash Kishore, Kalyani Raghunathan and Samuel Scott find provision of subsidized fortified wheat flour through India’s public distribution system was ineffective in reducing anemia among pregnant women due to poor implementation. (Article)

Distance Makes Migrant Hearts Heavier: Despite substantial income gains, Katrina Kosec and Valerie Mueller find domestic migrants in Pakistan report lower levels of happiness, and more incidents of illness, compared to non-migrants. (Article)

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The Climate Change Toll

Ricky Robertson simulates the impact of climate change on wheat production in Mexico by the 2050s, and projects a general decline in yields across most of the main wheat growing regions of the country. (Read More)

Say it with an E-poster
Contribute an e-poster to the upcoming joint IFPRI-FAO conference’s Acceleration Fair— a physical and online space for exchanging ideas, novel approaches, and technologies for accelerating the end of hunger and malnutrition. (Submit Now)

Growing Together: Guest Blogger, Yinuo Li, China Director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, argues China-Africa collaborations on agricultural modernization are key to Africa’s future. (Read: English | 中文)

Worming it out: China Academy of Agricultural Sciences’ Kris Wyckhuys, drawing on research with Wei Zhang, emphasizes swift and scientifically-guided action against debilitating invasive pests (like natural pest control) in production systems of internationally-traded commodities can generate significant benefits without the economic and ecological costs of pesticides. (Blog)

Unlocking Data: Simla Tokgoz and Sara Gustafson illustrate how data from Agricultural Incentives Consortium that includes incentives and disincentives for a range of agricultural policies can help policymakers in the optimal design, monitoring and evaluation of agricultural policies. (Blog)

Driving Change: As new research analyzes key demographic data on the drivers of India’s progress reducing malnutrition, Pratima Mathews stresses the importance of creating a strong data-focused environment to realize the vision of a healthier and malnutrition-free India. (Blog)

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“We are in danger right now of people giving up on the SDGs, and that is something real, and it needs to be fought against.” Homi Kharas, Interim Vice President and Director-Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution (Event)

“Protein revolution is the next major revolution [in the food systems]..looking at single cells of the food components so you can actually create meat without having an animal.” Ray Goldberg, Professor of Agriculture and Business, Harvard Business School (Event)

“The multidimensional analysis of National Family Health Survey data will help us navigate the health and nutrition programs, and understand the gaps that must now be closed.” Vinod Paul, Member, National Institute of Transforming India (NITI) Aayog (Event)

“Urban governance is going to be a key issue enabling next generation of countries achieve strong agricultural growth, allowing to make strong economic transformation.” Louise Fox, Chief Economist, United States Agency for International Development (Event)

“Nearly 93 million Nigerian smallholder farmers are unable to save their food…losing 45 percent of their food due to lack of cold storage and [as a result] losing 25 percent of their income.” Nnaemeka C. Ikegwuonu, Founder and CEO, ColdHubs, Nigeria (Event)