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Faster, Higher, Stronger
Explore a new interactive that highlights how IFPRI’s research is impacting the lives of millions of people through its contribution to policies and programs that reduce poverty, hunger, & malnutrition. ( Explore Interactive | Read Brochure)
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Climate Booster: Based on research conducted in Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia, Channing Arndt, James Thurlow and colleagues project that successful global efforts to substantially limit greenhouse gas emissions would likely boost GDP growth of poorer countries over the next 30 years. (Read Article)
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Homegrown Solutions: Anjali Pant and colleagues develop a framework that allows local stakeholders to integrate their knowledge and experience on climate smart agriculture interventions in prioritization and investment planning. (Read Article)
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Yield More: Nicola Cenacchi, Keith Wiebe and colleagues estimate that Indonesia could increase rice and maize production on existing cropland area by 31% and 67%, respectively, by 2035 to reach near self-sufficiency for both crops by closing current yield gaps. (Read Article)
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Terrible in Teens: Phuong Nguyen, Samuel Scott and colleagues find that stunting and underweight prevalence were 10 percentage points higher in children born to adolescent mothers than in children born to adult mothers in India. (Read Article)
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In the Middle
Xinshen Diao and colleagues find that rural non-farm households in Ghana are ascending to the middle class at a faster rate than their farming counterparts; and a non-farm household has lower likelihood of being poor. (Read More)
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Urban Poor: IFPRI’s new research program, Urban Food Systems for Better Diets, Nutrition, and Health, aims to fill critical knowledge and evidence gaps that provide a multidimensional, real-time picture of lives and vulnerabilities of the urban poor, writes Marie Ruel. (Read Blog)
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Better Targeting: Catherine Ragasa and Noora-Lisa Aberman find agriculture and nutrition information programs that target both men and women in households in Malawi are more effective than the more typical approach focusing on women, who are often overburdened with responsibilities. (Read Blog)
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Nutrition Guaranteed: Evgeniya Anisimova finds that the public works employment program for the poor in India has positive effects on nutrition and the ability to accumulate non-financial assets. (Read Blog)
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Everyone’s Business: As malnutrition—including overnutrition from junk food—becomes more of an urgent global issue, figuring out how to work with businesses is an important priority with many nuances, write Stuart Gillespie and Nick Nisbett. (Read Blog)
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IFPRI’s Annual Report
Dive into cutting-edge research informing policies, programs, and interventions to end hunger and poverty across the globe. ( Read Report)
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Calling G20 to Action
Ahead of the G-20 meeting, Shenggen Fan urged member nations to foster collaboration to encourage engagement and commitment needed to transform food value chains for better nutrition and sustainability. ( Press Statement)
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 We are in the process of changing the narrative…to move towards evidence-based narratives and a more realistic way of talking about the role of financial resources to serve the poor.” – Mayada El-Zoghbi, Lead, Strategy, Research & Development CGAP (Event)
As economists, we actually don’t really do enough to understand [food] markets, even though we do so much work with household survey data and so on. We really need to understand markets, not just cereal markets but also markets for nutrient-dense non-staples.” – Derek Headey, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI (Event)
The challenge for all of us, certainly for donors, is how do we program our money and strike a balance between getting the best in the world and using the best in the world to mentor, bring up and create space for local research institutions.“- David Atwood, Food Policy Advisor for Food Security Bureau, USAID (Event)
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Our urban program [Urban Food Systems for Better Diets, Nutrition and Health] is about the human face of urbanization and related problems” – Marie Ruel, Director, Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division, IFPRI (Event)
Successful implementation of the rural revitalization strategy needs to be backed by not only hard sciences, but also soft science; there is an urgent need to further study rural revitalization.”- Huajun Tang, CAAS President (Event)
We are now talking about a science project [rather] than a journal, which is involved in the diffusion of science related with food security, its many dimensions, scales and problems..we also want to assist young scientists in developing world to publish.” – Serge Savary, Editor-in-Chief, Food Security journal & Director of Research, INRA, Université de Toulouse (Event)
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