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2019 Global Food Policy Report Launches March 27
IFPRI’s 2019 Global Food Policy Report highlights the urgent need for rural revitalization to address the persistence of hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and environmental degradation in rural areas. Take a five question micro quiz to test your knowledge on rural revitalization, and register to watch the live webcast of the report launch. ( Micro Quiz | Event Registration)
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A Nutritious Bite: A new book co-edited by Shenggen Fan, Sivan Yosef and Rajul Pandya-Lorch strengthens the evidence base for agriculture’s contribution to nutrition, highlighting opportunities for re-imagining and redesigning agricultural and food systems for the benefit of nutrition. (Book)
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Birth, Right: Random errors in birth dates create artifacts in height-to-age scores that can be used to diagnose the extent of age misreporting and potential errors in child growth data, finds Derek Headey. (Article)
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Mixed Bag: In an evaluation of the Ethiopian government’s Sustainable Land Management (SLM) Program, Emily Schmidt and Fanaye Tadesse find mixed results: positive trends in agricultural productivity and SLM activities, but no significant increase in household-level agricultural value of production during the program years. (Article)
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Ramping Up: Adam Komarek demonstrates the new capabilities of an expanded farm model in two villages in Northwest Vietnam, including identifying options for improving performance on key sustainability and livelihood indicators. (Article)
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Biofortified Cassava: Erick Boy finds that biofortification can dramatically boost levels of iron and zinc in field-grown cassava, providing one effective means for reducing hidden hunger and malnutrition. (Article)
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Take My Breath Away
Samuel Scott, Avinash Kishore and Devesh Roy find air pollution from stubble burning in northern India is a leading risk factor for acute respiratory infection and leads to economic losses of nearly $35 billion a year. ( Read More)
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(Un)Fairer Data: In response to the Bill and Melinda Gates’ annual letter noting that ‘data can be sexist’, Agnes Quisumbing elaborates on ways in which IFPRI is working towards supplying missing data to ensure coverage of women and girls in all their roles. (Blog)
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Young and Empowered: Empowerment of youth is essential for achieving SDG2, emphasizes IFPRI guest blogger Jade Delgado, as she suggests ways in which the international development community can engage them. (Blog)
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Planet Food: Modern food system development often displaces small-scale businesses, limiting overall job growth potential; IFPRI’s new program, Food Industries for People and Planet, aims to address these issues by plugging knowledge gaps through evidence-based policy research, writes Rob Vos. (Blog)
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Making Waves: Claudia Ringler argues irrigation has the potential to significantly boost agricultural productivity in Africa south of the Sahara and feed the region’s rapidly-growing population. (Blog)
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Fighting Together: To tackle the growing threat antimicrobial resistance poses in low- and middle-income countries, IFPRI, CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health, and partners have formed a new international research hub on Anti-Microbial Resistance in Kenya, writes Janet Hodur. (Blog)
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International Day of Women in Science
Women scientists and researchers across the CGIAR system shared their inspirations, thoughts on the importance of science in their work, and their goals to end poverty and hunger in a special curated series to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. ( Watch Slideshow)
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New Donor Website
Explore IFPRI’s strong partnerships with donors at a new, easy-to-navigate and comprehensive website that showcases the numerous projects, publications, events, and blogs supported by donors. ( Explore Website)
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 Nutrition-sensitive agricultural programs work. Many programs are well thought-out, well-designed, and better-evaluated than programs that have been evaluated in the past.” – Marie Ruel, Division Director, Poverty, Health and Nutrition, IFPRI (Event)
It’s not good enough to argue that healthy diets have lots of fruits and vegetables and a little bit of animal-based products..a systems approach to delivering health and well-being must start with a proper definition of the concepts involved.” – Joachim von Braun, Director, Center for Development, Bonn University (Event)
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“[We should] use scientific evidence to achieve a healthy and sustainable food environment for all Egyptians and fill the gap in our knowledge by developing a research agenda to assist decision makers to formulate sound food and nutrition related policies and legal framework.” – Sahar Zaghloul, Vice President, National Nutrition Committee, Egypt (Event)
[In Bangladesh] we have to work together to create a cost-effective, cost-efficient food systems accessible to the whole population.”- Kaosar Afsana, Public Health Professor, BRAC University (Event)
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 Reducing Food Loss and Waste – Making it Personal
(Event Partner: Stop Wasting Food / Selina Juul, WRI, Champions 12.3, the Embassy of Denmark in Washington, DC)
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Washington, DC
2019 Global Food Policy Report Launch
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Washington, DC
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