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Playing Games to Save Water: To avert the tragedy of commons and increase collective action over water, Ruth Meinzen-Dick recommends behavioral games and multistakeholder participatory processes to create mutual understanding and consensus among stakeholders. (Article)
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Delivering More with Less: Bureaucrats working with fewer but highly motivated staff who spend considerable time in a district are more likely to facilitate citizens’ access to agricultural extension in Nepal, find Jordan Kyle and Danielle Resnick. (Article)
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Picture Perfect: Images from cheap smartphones can improve crop modeling and insurance for India’s small farmers by gathering key granular visual data not captured by satellite remote sensing, argue Berber Kramer and Francisco Ceballos. (Article)
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Egging On: Eggs are cheap, available and frequently consumed by children in middle- and high-income countries, but not so in Africa and South Asia where Derek Headey recommends forming an egg hub model by aggregating medium-scale producer clusters, increasing access to this nutritious food. (Article)
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Rice Shift : Rice production in Northeast China has increased significantly since 2000, and its geographic center shifted over 320 km northeastward during the past 30 years owing to changes in both climate and socioeconomics, finds Liangzhi You. (Article)
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Missing Nutrition
Keith Wiebe and Timothy Sulser’s modeling shows while the world is likely to produce more than enough carbohydrates to feed people in most parts of the world up to 2050, much of the world will face serious shortfalls in critical micronutrients like Iron, Calcium, and Vitamin A, highlighting the need to focus on producing more nutritious foods, not simply calories. ( Read More)
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Emerging Food Systems: To meet SDG 2 of Zero Hunger, India requires a holistic approach to food systems by reshaping and reforming those systems to deliver healthy, nutritious diets while reducing environmental and carbon footprints, writes Smita Aggarwal. (Blog)
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Sustainable Food Future: Sara Gustafson elaborates on four main themes that B20 and T20 experts outlined in their recommendations for a sustainable global food future ahead of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires. (Blog)
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Growing Pains: Katrina Kosec argues that more competitive elections correlate with worse outcomes in Mali, suggesting political competitiveness may not be a good measure of how effective a government is for recently established democracies. (Blog)
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Better Targeting: Kwaw Andam shows the possibilities and limits for using improved targeting of fertilizer subsidies to achieve twin objectives of supporting farmers and reducing administrative costs. (Blog)
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Survey Champion: Drawing from her experience of conducting surveys in Ghana and other countries, Simrin Makhija shares best practices for designing and deploying complex agricultural surveys. (Blog)
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Recruitment of IFPRI Director General
IFPRI’s Board is recruiting a new Director General to succeed Dr. Shenggen Fan at the conclusion of his successful tenure in December 2019. ( Details)
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Micronutrient Forum and IFPRI Enter Hosting Partnership
Reflecting the Micronutrient Forum and IFPRI’s shared commitment to tackling difficult challenges in the nutrition status of vulnerable populations, the Forum selected IFPRI to host its secretariat for the next three years. ( Details)
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 It is a myth that reducing fertilizer subsidies will not bring votes to the ruling government..the fertilizer industry has welcomed the decision of the [Indian] government to bring about Direct-Benefit Transfers of subsidies, but the current modality in which it is being operated is questionable.” – Satish Chander, Director General, Fertilizer Association of India (Event)
Access to credit may hinder Viet Nam’s opportunity to continue developing its agricultural industry. Through the use of new technologies, there are important opportunities to make the government’s key commodities more competitive with industry in neighboring countries.” – Truong Thi Thu Trang, Researcher, Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development (Blog)
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[When it comes to the health of India’s teenage girls] there are serious concerns pertaining open defecation, menstrual hygiene, low BMI and anemia, which need to be urgently addressed” – Rohini Mukherjee, Chief Policy Officer, Naandi Foundation (Event)
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