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IFPRI’s 2017 Annual Report
A rise in hunger, linked with conflict and climate shocks, reconfirmed the importance of IFPRI’s mission and the need for greater global efforts to improve food systems and accelerate progress toward ending hunger. With its refreshed strategy, IFPRI is proud to contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. (Read Annual Report)
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A Bug’s Price: Doubling current ladybug density in cotton fields could provide gains of around USD 300 million for cotton farmers in China, providing a strong economic case for moving pest control policies away from heavy reliance on chemical pesticides and toward a more ecologically-based regime, argue Wei Zhang and Mark Rosegrant. (Article)
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Testing Investing: Danielle Resnick and Suresh Babu test a practical framework in Zambia, through which practitioners and researchers can assess when and where investments in policy reforms are most feasible given a country’s underlying political, economic, and institutional characteristics. (Article)
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Quality Coverage: Phuong Nguyen, Sunny Kim and Purnima Menon examine how well a nutrition intervention in Bangladesh was implemented through an existing health program and which elements of implementation explained intervention impact, finding coverage and delivery quality play crucial roles. (Article)
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Teffing It Out: In a study of teff farmers in Ethiopia, Bart Minten finds that proximity to a city and the type of city determines agricultural price behavior and intensification. (Article)
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Facing The Heat: Studying the implications of limiting global temperature increases to 1.5°C and 2.0°C, Daniel Mason-D’Cruz and Keith Wiebe find a mixed picture in maize and wheat yields: some areas see increases while others see decreases, including projected declines in some breadbasket regions. (Article)
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Tackling Anemia
Samuel Scott and Suman Chakrabarti examine how a range of factors influence anemia prevalence among pregnant Indian women, finding a correlation between rates of open defecation and anemia that indicates the prevalence of anemia among pregnant women declines sharply once open defecation rates drop below 50 percent. ( Read More)
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IFPRI & Canada: A Successful Partnership
IFPRI’s long-standing partnership with Canada has generated cutting-edge research in support of improved food security and nutrition, particularly for women and children, and gender equity. (Read Brochure)
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Breaking it Down: David Spielman, Kwaw Andam and Simrin Makhija discuss
the complexity and challenges of programing and evaluation in the natural resource management space, and provide guidance on managing that complexity based on their experience in Ghana. (Blog)
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War and Piece of Land: A trade war between the U.S. and China could have global ramifications for soybean markets, argue guest blogger Carine Smaller and David Laborde, leading to a ramp-up of production and potential land grabs in African countries and elsewhere. (Blog)
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(eco)Logical Pest Control: Despite heavy use of pesticides in Nigeria, crop yields have stagnated; new research suggests the potential for ecologically-based pest management, writes Wei Zhang. (Blog)
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Economically Unequal: At a recent IFAD conference, participants examined what development organizations can do to assess and counter the impacts of widening global economic inequality in rural areas, writes Hazel Malapit. (Blog)
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Predicting Success: A new modeling toolkit offers policy makers in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia a set of tools to predict how decisions will play out on farms and across the agricultural sector, writes Mai Mahmoud. (Blog)
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 “We are not dealing with [just] hunger anymore…we have a double crisis of hunger and obesity.”- José Graziano da Silva, Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Video)
“To achieve gender equality, we need to address social and economic power imbalances—especially for rural women who often face exclusion, vulnerability to exploitation, harmful practices, biases, and even conflict and violence.”– Celina Caesar-Chavannes, Parliamentary Secretary to Canada’s Minister of International Development and La Francophonie (Video)
“Such extreme developments on the international markets cannot be treated as isolated incidences. They must be understood as occurrences that we are likely to face again. We need to do what should be done to protect our people from international market-induced shocks through judicious policy measures.” – Md. Sirajul Haider, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture of Bangladesh (Video)
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“We are initiating in Brazil what I call a second big revolution to move our agriculture toward sustainability.”- Maurício Antônio Lopes, President, Embrapa (Video)
“The world will continue to keep accumulating people on the cliff of famine —unless development actors become engaged not just to prevent emerging crises but to build resilience.”– Dominique Burgeon, Director of Emergencies, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Video)
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