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Faster, Higher, Stronger
Explore highlights of IFPRI’s work with partners in Africa at the country, regional, and continental levels that provides cutting edge, policy-relevant research on food and nutrition security for policy makers, development partners, and stakeholders. ( Read Brochure)
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Weather We Can Change: Climate change will continue to slow projected reductions in hunger in Africa in the coming decades but investments to increase agricultural productivity can offset its adverse impacts, find Timothy Sulser, Keith Wiebe, Alejandro Nin-Pratt, Sherman Robinson, Nicola Cenacchi, Shahnila Dunston, Mark Rosegrant and Richard Robertson. (Article)
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The Tipping Point: In a review of 48 empirical studies on the impacts of information on governance and service delivery, Katrina Kosec finds information that combines three factors—relevance, individuals having the power, and incentives to act on it—can yield improvements in rural governance. (Article)
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Women Mean Business: Mothers’ running non-farm businesses in Ghana are strongly linked with children’s secondary education enrollment for both high- and low-educated mothers, finds Isabel Lambrecht. (Article)
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Mass Benefits: Socially, economically and physically disadvantaged; and women-led households have benefited the most from India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in the state of Andhra Pradesh, finds Yanyan Liu.(Article)
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Not Fishy: Lieven Huybregts finds there isn’t much evidence to support that fish oil supplementation affects development of children between six months and two years of age in low-income households in rural Ethiopia. (Article)
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Big Fish: Shahidur Rashid and Nicholas Minot argue nearly 1.8 million Bangladeshis escaped poverty during 2000-2010 because of rapid growth in aquaculture, which contributed to rural income while making fish more accessible to consumers. (Article)
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Fueling Future
Alam Mondal, Claudia Ringler, Hagar Eldidi and Clemens Bresinger’s evaluation of energy supply strategies for Egypt’s power sector reveals a need for diversity of supply-mix—combining renewable and conventional energy sources to improve energy security and develop a low-carbon society. ( Read More)
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Nutrition First: Cutting meat consumption in developed countries while ensuring better access to animal-sourced foods in developing countries is crucial to improving nutrition and health globally, writes Shenggen Fan, commenting on the recent EAT-Lancet report. (Blog)
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Gene Tech: IFPRI guest blogger, BGI’s Ren Wang, argues genomic technology can contribute to reducing health-related rural poverty in China by focusing on the prevention and control of two diseases with devastating physical and economic impacts—echinococcosis and thalassemia.(Blog)
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Holds Much Water: Kalle Hirvonen and Derek Headey’s analysis from Ethiopia reveals that state-led efforts to promote homestead gardening are more likely to succeed in areas with consistent access to water. (Blog)
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Better Targeting: Women face various disadvantages in adopting better irrigation techniques, requiring a special focus from policy makers and program designers, writes Sophie Theis. (Blog)
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Farm Sops: Though a tempting quick fix for Indian politicians, the waivers have only limited benefits for the people they are supposed to help; the money is better spent on other forms of farm assistance, argue Anjani Kumar and Jawaharlal Nehru University’s Seema Bathla. (Blog)
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IFPRI-FAO Conference Synopsis
Explore opportunities for scaling up successful actions and innovations that can accelerate progress to end hunger and malnutrition, drawn from global discussions with leading experts. ( Read Synopsis)
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