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New IFPRI Book! New Perspectives in a Changing World
The latest IFPRI book, edited by Keijiro Otsuka and IFPRI’s former Director General, Shenggen Fan, provides a much-needed global perspective on agricultural development, with examinations of regional patterns of development and explorations of possible policy reforms for a more sustainable, equitable, and food-secure future. Dozens of experts from a wide range of disciplines, including many IFPRI voices, joined forces to explore the emerging challenges and opportunities in today’s field of agricultural development. Topics range from rapid urbanization, to nutrition, to gender equity, to climate change, and more. ( Check Out the Book and Watch the Book Launch Event Video)
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Lockdown Losses: Muzna Alvi, Prapti Barooah, Shweta Gupta, and Smriti Saini conducted phone surveys about women’s access to agriculture extension during COVID-19 in India and Nepal, finding women’s already low formal access was reduced, increasing reliance on informal sources of information. As a result of the lack of information, agricultural productivity for almost 50% of farmers decreased. (Read Article)
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Agri-food System Left Behind: Myanmar’s attempts to contain the pandemic damaged the country’s agri-food system financially, though farms and food businesses were fairly resilient to initial disruptions, report Isabel Lambrecht, Derek Headey, and other IFPRI colleagues. Most farm households lost income, resulting in decreased savings and increased debt. (Read Article)
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The Cost of a Cuppa: According to value chain research by Seneshaw Tamru, Bart Minten, and Johan Swinnen, coffee exporters in Ethiopia are willing to incur losses during exporting by offering high prices for coffee locally in order to access scarce foreign exchange. As a byproduct, these high wholesale prices benefit coffee farmers. (Read Article)
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About Time: An analysis of a nutrition-sensitive agriculture program in Burkina Faso by Mara van den Bold, Deanna Olney, Agnes Quisumbing, and colleagues shows that the program increased the amount of time women spent on agriculture, and improved maternal and child nutrition outcomes. Plus, the extra time spent by women didn’t have any negative effects on their own or their children’s nutrition. (Read Article)
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Decisions, Decisions: Women’s decision-making is often seen as a proxy for women’s empowerment, but not much attention is paid to how decision-making indicators are actually measured. Using surveys from studies in Ecuador, Uganda, and Yemen, Daniel Gilligan, Melissa Hidrobo, Shalini Roy, and colleagues find that small variations in indicator construction can cause meaningful differences in how women are ranked in terms of decision-making and how program success is evaluated. (Read Article)
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Adapting to Crisis: Most countries in the world will experience average agricultural yield decrease due to climate change. Climate-induced yield changes will result in market-mediated adjustments in production and trade, which will contribute to reducing welfare losses globally, according to a trade model by Christophe Gouel and David Laborde. (Read Article)
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Social Safety Net Success
The latest blog in our COVID-19 series, by Kibrom Abay, Guush Berhane, John Hoddinott, and Kibrom Tafere, discusses how Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) has softened the economic blow of the pandemic for poor households. In fact, the program offset virtually all negative COVID-related impacts! The authors emphasize the importance of having social protection programs in place prior to shocks in order to effectively protect the most vulnerable. ( Read Blog)
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Opportunity in Myanmar: Myanmar has great potential as an agricultural producer, but is held back by the agricultural sector’s lack of access to financial services. Alan de Brauw, Russell Toth, Siddhartha Basu, and Khin Pwint Oo explore how agricultural value chain finance (AVCF) could help. (Read Blog)
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Gender Tensions: Katrina Kosec and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo unpack how gender attitudes are affected by perceptions of economic deprivation in Papua New Guinea. Their research finds that members of a household feeling relatively poor increases support for women being in the workforce, but doesn’t increase men’s support for women making household decisions. This often leads to women being expected to “do it all” since domestic burdens are not necessarily lifted when women enter the workforce. (Read Blog)
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Big costs, Bigger Rewards: Swati Malhotra provides the latest Ceres2030 Report updates, explaining how the annual $33 billion ($14 billion from donors and $19 billion from low-income countries) in additional spending needed to end hunger sustainably by 2030 should be structured. (Read Blog)
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Empowered Women, Healthier Planet: Crop diversification can be a useful form of climate adaptation, as it helps to reduce the risk of food insecurity. Through research in rural Bangladesh, Elizabeth Bryan, Alex De Pinto, Greg Seymour, and Prapti Bhandary found that some aspects of women’s empowerment can lead to more diversified crop production, thus strengthening agricultural resilience to climate change! (Read Blog)
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Happy Birthday CGIAR! 50 Innovations in 2021
2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of CGIAR. Established in 1971, CGIAR is now hosted in 13 countries across four continents. To celebrate, CGIAR will be featuring 50 years of OneCGIAR innovations throughout 2021. IFPRI’s first featured innovation is our climate-smart modeling! Through global models such as IMPACT and MIRAGRODEP, as well as country-level models, this work at IFPRI has helped inform policy on food security and agricultural development worldwide, especially in developing countries.
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New IFPRI Microsites
We are pleased to share the launch of two new websites: the Food Security Portal (FSP) and the IFPRI-Rwanda Program site. The FSP provides up-to-date data and information about dynamic developments in the world food system, while the Rwanda Strategy Support Program’s vision is to accelerate agricultural transformation and rural development throughout Rwanda.
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UN Food Systems Summit 2021
We are getting ready for the UNFSS 2021, which is a turning point in the world’s journey to achieving the SDGs by 2030. Over the next year, the Summit will raise global awareness, deepen our understanding of the problems we must solve, and set a course to radically change the way we produce, process, and consume food. IFPRI has signed an MoU to provide research support to the Scientific Group on Research Cooperation for UNFSS, and IFPRI researchers are contributing to numerous summit action tracks. Stay tuned for more details on the summit and IFPRI’s contributions!
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 In the last four decades, we have observed that high obesity and chronic diseases have increased and become the main public health concern” – Simon Barquera, Director of Nutrition Policy Research at Mexico’s National Institute of Public Health. (Event)
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Women and girls are involved in food systems transformation, but they should also have access to benefits, and be empowered for an inclusive food system transformation” – Jemimah Njuki, IFPRI’s Director for Africa. (Event)
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Research-constrained smallholders, especially women and marginalized communities, need access to climate-resilient maize more than ever before” – B.M. Prasanna, Director, Global Maize Program and the CGIAR Research Program on Maize, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT). (Event)
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New and diverse issues of agricultural development are arising, such as rapid urbanization, nutrition and health, gender equality…” – Keijiro Otsuka, Professor of Development Economics, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University, Japan & Chief senior researcher, Institute of Developing Economies, Tokyo. (Event)
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In a New Security Beat article on the intersections of food security, land ownership, and gender, IFRPI’s Agnes Quisumbing notes that increasing women’s access to land tenure or other assets does not always increase women’s empowerment, and can often simply create more work for them. (Read the Article)
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An article from Xinhua Net (China) discussed a set of high-precision maps of global agricultural production released by an international team of researchers, including IFPRI researchers. The maps provide data on 42 major crops around the world. (Read the Article)
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Deutsche Welle published an article about the relationship between meat consumption and the fight against climate change. IFPRI’s Claudia Ringler weighed in to explain that, while there is an overconsumption of some meat products in high income countries, there is actually under-consumption in some low-income countries with spiraling food insecurity. This complicates the sweeping, global call to reduce meat consumption. (Read the Article)
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In a recent The Hindu article on child wasting, research by IFPRI and other international development organizations estimates that an additional 93 lakh children under five are likely to suffer from wasting, 26 lakh more from stunting, and 1.68 lakh additional under-five deaths in the first three years of the post-COVID-19 world. (Read the Article)
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Dhaka Tribune published an article about the booming fish industry in Bangladesh. Quotes from IFPRI’s book, “The Making of a Blue Revolution in Bangladesh” by Shahidur Rashid and Xiaobo Zhang, are featured, explaining that an increase in aquaculture production in Bangladesh has lowered fish prices, increased protein consumption, and reduced poverty. Fish is now the biggest protein source in Bangladeshi diets! (Read the Article)
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The Nation (Malawi) reported on how COVID-19 hit Malawi’s previously thriving economy. The article includes IFPRI’s estimate that government tax revenue would decline by 4-8.4% in the faster and slower economic recovery scenarios. (Read the Article)
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