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research units Overview IFPRI’s Nutrition, Diets, and Health (NDH) Unit provides evidence on strategies to achieve healthy diets, good nutrition, and health. Researchers examine the causes and constraints that lead to dietary, nutrition, and health issues, and collaborate with partners to identify effective policies and programs to address these issues, including possible solutions centered around […]

Research units Overview The Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit (MTI) provides innovative, evidence-based policy solutions to help drive inclusive and sustainable economic growth for smallholders, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and workers in the agrifood sector. By analyzing local, regional, and global economic environments, trade conditions, and value chains from farm to fork, MTI identifies […]

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Investment Watch published a report on food prices and how countries are dealing with supply and demand. High prices and low supply have prompted nations to halt food exports for now.  According to a report by the International Food Policy Research Institute, other countries that prevented their produce from moving outward beyond the end of […]

In an article in the Malawi Nyasa Times, the paper reports that tree seedlings will be donated to villages in Traditional Authorities (TAs) Malemia, Mlumbe, Nkula, and Sub TA Nkapita in Zomba and Machinga Districts. The donation followed a study that IPOR, together with Ohio State University, Vanderbilt University, and the International Food Research Institute […]

Despite some improvements in yields and farmer adoption of modern technical practices, significant structural problems continue to plague the sector.  To better understand the problems faced by the shrimp sector, CGIAR, a global research platform, conducted a study to document the issues faced by the sector, including interviews with 25 multi-stakeholder experts. The preliminary results […]

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Agri Dees published a summary of an IFPRI seminar. Agri Dees states that the Russian invasion of Ukraine triggered deep geopolitical upheavals and a crisis on the food and energy security fronts. Agriculture is at the center of this crisis issue: to reduce dependence on fossil fuels, can we dedicate part of agricultural production to […]

Energy Monitor writes in a report that climate change is making hurricanes, flooding, and other big natural disasters more frequent and more severe. There is growing acknowledgment that the traditional humanitarian response to these events is no longer fit for purpose. Many in the aid sector are pushing the idea of acting earlier, leveraging technological […]

In an op-ed on how climate change has affected and will continue to affect crops (grains, pulses, rice, etc.) in several regions of India, Hindu Tamil explained that paddy grains start sprouting early, crops get waterlogged, and depressions in the Bay of Bengal affect fishermen and the salt industry. The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) […]

Agri-Pulse published an article stating USDA’s latest farm income forecast could provide some ammunition to farm groups and their allies in Congress who argue that soaring production costs are eating into farm earnings while producers have little chance of seeing payments from commodity programs.  Joseph Glauber, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy […]

The Nation (Malawi) writes in an article that the ever-rising maize prices in the country have put low-income earners in a tight corner as they have to balance how to bring food on the table from K50 000 monthly income. The absence of Admarc [Agricultural Development and Market Corporation] markets has created a huge gap […]

According to a new study released by the FAO Investment Centre and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), there is growing evidence that when you invest in farmers, especially the youth in farming, their capacity and motivation to produce food profitably and sustainably increases, writes Farmers Review Africa in a piece on capacity strengthening. […]

A farmer is often the first person in the supply chain to be impacted by climate change and their livelihood directly depends on climate writes Down to Earth in an article. This affects the country’s overall agricultural output and also adds to food inflation. High food prices could result in people decreasing consumption. The International […]

Live Mint writes in a piece that the Indian government on Friday told Parliament that ₹2.24 lakh crore has gone directly into the accounts of 11.5 crore farmers across the country under PM Kisan Samman Nidhi. “The funds disbursed under the initiative have acted as a catalyst in rural economic growth. PM KISAN is a […]

Armed conflicts, climate change, and the increase in the cost of inputs exert great pressure on the food chain, writes El Pais in an extensive article on global hunger. In the middle of the 21st century —the century with the greatest technological development we have ever seen–we have not yet found the key to preventing millions […]

El Pais (Spain) in an extensive report writes the FAO index falls for the tenth consecutive month, but experts warn that cereals, meat, dairy, oils, and sugar remain at very high levels. Prices are still very high. The FAO index, after rising during the first months after the start of the conflict in Ukraine, is […]

The New Humanitarian interviewed Valeria Piñeiro, IFPRI’s acting head for Latin America, for the article about the worsening situation with hunger and poverty in Argentina. Piñeiro is asking the international community not to neglect Argentina and Latin America. In the decade up to 2015, the region was hailed for outperforming others in reducing hunger and poverty, but […]

Food executives are warning of more price hikes to come, even as commodities like palm oil and dairy decline writes Bloomberg in an article on food prices. Diplomats talk of the worst food crisis since World War II, with parts of Africa on the brink of famine.   This striking dissonance underscores the significant time lag […]