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Dynamic Duo
Explore highlights of IFPRI’s collaboration with India – more than 40 years of working together to address the most pressing issues of the times with research and evidence-based policy. ( Read More) |
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Breaking Bad Behaviors: Incorporating behavior change communications into nutrition interventions can help drive substantial and sustainable reductions in violence against women in Bangladesh, find Shalini Roy, Melissa Hidrobo, and Akhter Ahmed. (Article)
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Top of the Class: Using an early childhood development center to implement an integrated agriculture and nutrition intervention helped increase the nutrient intakes of targeted preschoolers, and also reduced stunting among their younger siblings, find Aulo Gelli, Marco Santacroce, Harold Alderman, and Marie Ruel. (Article)
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Weathering a Change: Examining how weather risks affect the value of using nitrogen fertilizers and improved seed varieties, Jawoo Koo argues introducing farmers to improved seed varieties before encouraging the use of nitrogen fertilizer could produce higher levels of adoption. (Article)
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Ra Power: Alam Mondal, Claudia Ringer, Hagar El Didi, and Clemens Breisinger, project that enhanced promotion of renewable energy sources could reduce Egypt’s fossil fuel dependency by 42% by 2050, while also improving energy security. (Article)
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Burden of Friendship: Xiaobo Zhang examines the financial costs of friendship, finding as incomes grow, so too do the expenses of gifts for friends in many developing countries, accounting for a substantial share of household expenditures. (Article)
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Costly Calories
Derek Headey finds animal-sourced foods – rich in many nutrients important for human growth and development – are far more expensive than cereals in many developing regions, illustrating a significant challenge in combating malnutrition.( Read More)
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Colder Solar: Guest Blogger, Nnaemeka C. Ikegwuonu, founder and CEO of Nigeria’s ColdHubs, argues that solar-powered refrigeration provides a practical solution for delivering perishable produce to markets and boosting farmer incomes in developing countries. (Blog)
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Something Big is Coming: CGIAR System Council Chair Juergen Voegele highlights the great potential big data has to transform agriculture across the globe to the benefit of farmers, food security, and sustainability. (Blog)
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Pesky Pesticides: To reduce growing demand among African farmers for toxic pesticides harmful to human and environmental health, governments must find ways to provide access to less harmful but equally effective pesticides, write Jenny Smart, Jason Snyder, Joey Goeb, and David Tschirley . (Blog)
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The Long and Short of It: Keith Weibe and Tim Sulser parse modeling projections to analyze the significant trade-offs climate change mitigation strategies bear for agriculture and food security in the short and long term. (Blog)
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Lego Learning: Kristin Davis reflects on using creative and colorful data visualization tools for a project designing knowledge centers in Zimbabwe, and how powerful they can be for synthesizing and analyzing data. (Blog)
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 “We should focus on three aspects of the farming system: first, effect of changes in present production system on consumers, producers, sustainability and natural systems; second, what is driving changes in the farming system; and third, policies that are shaping the farming system.” Ramesh Chand, NITI Aayog Member. (Event)
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“We are asking more from farmers – to deliver not only on food security, but also on climate change and the environment.” Jerzy Plewa, Director-General, European Commission Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development. (Event)
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 Agricultural Policy in Disarray: Reforming the Farm Bill
(Event Partner: AEI)
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Washington, D.C.
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