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 | Get ready to accelerate Over 90 distinguished experts will present their ideas on the policies, interventions, and innovations that can accelerate progress to end hunger and malnutrition worldwide at the upcoming joint IFPRI-FAO conference in Bangkok, November 28-30. Conference program available now. ( Program) |
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| Social Protection: An in-depth look at social protection programs in rural Africa in the 2017-18 ReSAKSS Annual Trends and Outlook Report, edited by Fleur Wouterse and Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse, highlights how high rates of poverty, transitions to pluralistic democratic political systems, and a more vocal segment of urban poor will put pressure on budget constrained governments across the continent to meet high demand for such programs. (Read Report) |
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| Making it Better: Clemens Breisinger and colleagues evaluate the impact of Egypt’s first conditional transfer program, Takaful and Karama, and provide policy recommendations to improve its effectiveness. (Policy Brief) |
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| Staying Inbounds: Keeping the food system’s environmental impacts by 2050 within the bounds of our planet’s limits will require a synergistic combination of strategies that involve eating healthier, more plant-based diets, improvements in technologies and management, and reductions in food loss and waste, find Keith Wiebe and his co-authors. (Article) |
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| Toll on Health: Futoshi Yamauchi finds that soaring food prices, triggered by the food price crisis of 2007-08, negatively impacted child growth in non-farming families in Indonesia. (Article) |
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| God’s Work: Based on evidence from Uganda, Jan Duchoslav argues external incentives, such as performance-based financing, increase output and efficiency of healthcare providers, for those at religious nonprofits who sometimes claim to be motivated by working for higher causes. (Article) |
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| Unequal Impact: Adoption of sustainable plant-based healthier diets has an uneven impact on developed and developing countries—In low-income countries it can increase demand for environmental resources, whereas in high- and middle-income countries, it can reduce the environmental impacts, find Keith Wiebe,Timothy Sulser, and colleagues. (Article) |
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 | Children and the CityUsing nighttime light intensity as a proxy for urbanization, Mulubrhan Amare, Channing Arndt and Todd Benson find strong association between early stages of urbanization and lower child stunting in Nigeria; but the relationship weakens as cities become larger. ( Read More) |
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Burning Questions
Are you an expert on accelerating progress to end hunger and malnutrition? Find out by taking our quiz on transforming agri-food systems and how to meet the needs of the hungry and malnourished. (Quiz) |
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| Climate Change, Women and Agriculture: Women in agriculture in developing countries face a complex interplay of intensifying climate impacts and gender inequities—in irrigation practices in particular—requiring special attention from development programs, write Sophie Theis and Elena Martinez. (Blog) |
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| Building Resilience: Cash transfers do more than provide immediate economic relief; they are an important tool in helping smallholders build resilience against weather, climate and economic shocks, argues Fleur Wouterse, in one of a series of blogposts on the Annual Trends and Outlook Report. (Blog) |
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| Loaning Advice: Manuel Hernandez, Yanyan Liu and Sara Gustafson propose a new model that offers lenders a way to assess hard-to-quantify factors, such as group entrepreneurial spirit, in assessing micro-finance loans in India. (Blog) |
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| Emperor’s New NAFTA: The new United States-Mexico-Canada trade agreement is likely to bring only limited changes from the North America Free Trade Agreement, but offers some modest benefits to U.S. dairy farmers, writes Joseph Glauber. (Blog) |
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| Grain of Truth: Gashaw Tadesse Abate, Tanguy Bernard, Alan De Brauw, Nicholas Minot and Elena Hildebrandt find that Ethiopia’s Wheat Initiative, which offers a package of improved inputs and other technologies and techniques, has the potential to boost yields substantially. (Blog) |
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 “We are in a long-term battle, just like we have been with tobacco, [but] this is much bigger, and affects everybody in the world. [Poor diets] are a major cause of 13 major cancers; obesity; cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and hypertension in the world.”- Barry Popkin, W. R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of nutrition, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health (Event)
“Because of all the research on the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index, we have lot more knowledge about what domains really matter [for women’s empowerment].” – Caren Grown, Senior Director of Gender, World Bank (Event)
“The existential issue for us at the moment is how we go forward and are most effective in moving the needle forward on child stunting, extreme poverty reduction and of course in the nutritional discussion.” Robert Bertram, Chief Scientist, Bureau for Food Security, USAID (Event) |
“What’s new after 50 years is greater recognition of the commons…(including) expanding recognition of the commons beyond rural remote areas – urban commons, digital commons, knowledge commons.” – Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Senior Research Fellow, Environment and Production Technology, International Food Policy Research Institute (Event)
“We must increase, not just maintain, US support for global food security and nutrition programs or risk reversing the hard won gains that together we have achieved over the past decade.” – Jim McGovern, Congressman-2nd District of Massachusetts & Co-Chair of the House Hunger Caucus (Event) |
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 78th Annual conference of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics
(Event Partner: IEG, TCI, ISAE)
Thursday-Friday, November 1-3, 2018
New Delhi, India
10th CAER-IFPRI Annual Conference
Thursday-Saturday, November 8-10, 2018
Guangzhou, China |
Accelerating the End of Hunger and Malnutrition
(Event Partner: FAO)
Wednesday-Friday, November 28-30, 2018
Bangkok, Thailand |
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Make No Mistake
A description in IFPRI Insights on October 5 misstated the staple crop referenced in the research conducted by Suman Chakrabarti, Avinash Kishore, Kalyani Raghunathan and Samuel Scott. It was ‘fortified’ wheat, and not ‘bio-fortified’ wheat. |
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