40th Anniversary Blog Series

Most of our health systems are set up to respond to problems, whereas agriculture can be part of a prevention approach.

12 stories that describe IFPRI's work on key topical areas

Reflections on IFPRI’s country programs

Post by Paul Dorosh, Director of the Development Strategy and Governance Division.

The following post by Nienke Beintema, Head of the Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI) Program, is part of an ongoing series of blog stories celebrating IFPRI’s 40th anniversary. Each story authored by current and former IFPRI research staff highlights a key research topic through the years from the personal perspective of the researcher. Open […]

Post by Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Coordinator of the CGIAR program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi)

Post by HarvestPlus director Howarth Bouis 

My 20^th anniversary of working at IFPRI coincides with the 20^th anniversary of the UN World Conference on Women in Beijing

Should developing countries return their policy focus to protecting domestic industry, assuming the agricultural sector will go largely unaffected? Former IFPRI senior researcher Alberto Valdés says no.

Post by IFPRI senior researcher Tim Thomas

This is a post by IFPRI senior researcher Lawrence Haddad

The following post by IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan was originally published in the Huffington Post. It is the first in a series of blog stories celebrating IFPRI’s 40th anniversary. In the mid-1970s, the outlook for food supplies around the world was grim. There were talks of “food triage”— food-rich countries would decide which food-poor countries […]