IFPRI Insights: August 2019

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August 8, 2019

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My Food, Our Future
Calling all youth to submit a short video for IFPRI’s video contest sharing ideas on how to ensure the world’s growing population has access to healthy, diverse, and affordable diets. (Contest Details)

Pro-Empowerment: Hazel Malapit and colleagues describe how agriculture development projects can use project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index to identify key areas of women’s disempowerment, design appropriate responses and monitor women’s empowerment-related project outcomes. (Read Article)

Land Locked: Policies and legal frameworks in Myanmar are often captured by elite actors hampering land governance reforms in the country, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and colleagues find in their investigation of land reforms in the country.(Read Article)

Hawkish: Varying trends of high levels of violence towards informal vendors in Accra, Dakar, and Lusaka from 2000 to 2016 are driven by differences in political decentralization of local governing bodies, variations in administrative mandate over vending, and the degree of influence vendors hold, finds Danielle Resnick. (Read Article)

Big League: In an analysis of the effect of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization on structural transformation within the country, Jessica Leight and colleagues find that Chinese counties exposed to tariff reduction uncertainty witnessed higher total and per capita GDP. (Read Article)

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Price We Pay
Derek Headey and Harold Alderman point out that relative prices of healthy and unhealthy foods vary across countries, partially explaining international differences in the prevalences of undernutrition and overweight adults. (Read More)

More & Better: With the rise in undernourishment globally, guest bloggers Jessica Fanzo and Derek Byerlee rewind to 1943 UN conference which first emphasized linking agriculture to nutrition and chart the missed opportunities for the global community in fight against hunger. (Read Blog)

Shock Resistant: In Ethiopia, resilience measures that protect agriculture and the people most vulnerable to weather shocks can substantially reduce the negative impact of climate shocks—and drought in particular, highlight Claudia Ringler and UNDP’s Turhan Saleh. (Read Blog)

Carbon Die Oxide: Nicola Cenacchi and Timothy Sulser caution that rising atmospheric CO2 will slow the growth in the global availability of key nutrients provided by important crops such as wheat, maize, and legumes. (Read Blog)

All That Doesn’t Glitter: The Ghanaian government includes spending on Cocobod, the public corporation that manages the cocoa subsector, in calculating its overall support for agriculture—but Samuel Benin and Ernesto Tiburcio show this calculation presents some problems. (Read Blog)

Subsidy Reform: Food subsidy reforms in Egypt can accelerate economic growth and reduce poverty, point Hoda El-Enbaby, Clemens Breisinger and colleagues. (Read Blog)

Public Interest: To get better seeds and traits, David Spielman and Isabella Di Pietro recommend increasing public investment in crop improvement programs specific to the needs and conditions of low- and middle-income countries. (Read Blog)

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Alt + Fresh
Explore new web pages that provide a peek into IFPRI’s online resources organized by divisions, topics, regions and countries. (Division | Topic | Countries & Region)

Achievement Brochure 2019
Through work on technological innovation, rural transformation, gender and other key areas, CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Market’s research informs policies of stakeholders, achieving milestones globally in 2018. (Read Brochure)

Economy wide analysis [in Ethiopia] shows that agriculture growth is likely to decelerate..[but] agriculture and non-farm investments will likely remain most effective at reducing poverty in the country at least through the mid-2020s.”- Paul Dorosh, Director, Development Strategy and Governance Division, IFPRI (Event)

“With the increasing number of individuals facing hunger, and an estimated 2 billion food insecure people, we may actually be moving away from the SDG2 targets.” – Vimlendra Sharan, Director of the FAO Liaison Office for North America (Event)