Publications
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Brief
Consumer preferences matter for transforming food systems for sustainable healthy diets: Evidence from rural Bangladesh
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Working Paper
What might be at stake? El Niño, global price shocks and food security in Nepal
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Book Chapter
Kenya’s agrifood system: Overview and drivers of transformation
Blogs
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Rising commodities prices driven by the Russia-Ukraine crisis threaten to undermine Kenya’s economy, increase poverty
Modeling shows lowered GDP and agricultural production for 2022.
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Charting a productive, sustainable future for small farms amid food system transformation
Encouraging the adoption of promising innovations.
![COVID-19 and other shocks facing Papua New Guinea's food economy](https://www.ifpri.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/png_gerehu.jpg)
COVID-19 and other shocks facing Papua New Guinea’s food economy
Modeling shows differering impacts for urban and rural households.
Events
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Impacts of Global Shocks on Poverty, Hunger, and Diets
Virtual Event: February 9, 2023 – 9:00 AM- 10:00 AM EST. IFPRI’s Xinshen Diao and James Thurlow will present their latest round of country impact modeling in Agrilinks webinar “Impacts of Global Shocks on Poverty, Hunger, and Diets”.
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An evolving paradigm of agricultural mechanization development: How much can Africa learn from Asia?
The event video, presenter slides, podcast, photos and blog will be available in the days following the event. Agricultural mechanization in Africa south of the Sahara — especially for small farms and businesses — requires a new paradigm to meet the needs of the continent’s evolving farming systems. Can Asia, with its recent success in […]
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Virtual Event – COVID-19’s Short-term Impacts on Economies, Food Systems and Poverty in African and Asian Countries: Economywide Estimates from Economywide Models
Using economywide models, presenters discuss the varied effects of different policies and economic structures on food systems and poverty during COVID-19 in Nigeria, Myanmar, and Sudan.
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News
Poor households quadruple with corona sickness 60% of daily income of 200 yen or less (NNI Asia)
NNI Asia (Japan) published an information blurb stating that the number of poor households is rapidly increasing in Myanmar, where the spread of the new coronavirus continues. According to IFPRI, (Poverty, food insecurity, and social protection during COVID-19 in Myanmar: Combined evidence from a household telephone survey and micro-simulations), poor households with daily household income of less than US $ 1.9 (about 198 yen) reached […]
The interventions: efficacy and adverse effects (Nueva Tribuna)
Nueva Tribune (Japan) published an article stating that the number of poor households is rapidly increasing in Myanmar, where the spread of the new coronavirus continues. According to IFPRI, (Poverty, food insecurity, and social protection during COVID-19 in Myanmar: Combined evidence from a household telephone survey and micro-simulations), poor households with a daily household income of less than US$ 1.9 (about 198 yen) reached […]
Poverty and food insecurity during COVID-19: Evidence from the COVID-19 Rural and Urban Food Security Survey (RUFSS) – June and July 2020 round (Relief Web)
Relief Web published a summary of the recent Myanmar surveys. The IFPRI surveys provide evidence that Myanmar is one of the few developing countries that the World Bank (2020) forecasts will not go into recession in 2020 – a very modest expansion of just 0.87 percent is forecast. A Social Accounting Matrix multiplier analysis by IFPRI projected a 0.50 percent expansion under a […]
Research
Topics/Countries
Awards
- Distinguished Leadership Award for Internationals, 2018, University of Minnesota.
- Outstanding Alumni Award, 2018, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota.
- Best Conference Paper, 2016 China Agricultural Economic Review (CAER) – IFPRI Annual Conference.
- GTAP Research Fellow, 2007-2010, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Purdue University.