IFPRI’s strong research performance
Food policies based on strong evidence are critical for promoting agricultural development and combatting global hunger and malnutrition. Food policy research at IFPRI contributes to generating this...
View ArticleMoving nutrition up on the development agenda
Fruit stand, New Delhi, IndiaNutrition is critical to the healthy physical and cognitive development of individuals, as well as overall economic development. In the last few years, several levers,...
View ArticleSDGs should target ending hunger sustainably by 2025
Shenggen Fan comments on “The Report of the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda.” The post-2015 agenda currently being discussed is a principal outcome of the Rio+20...
View ArticleFrom subsistence to profit: Transforming smallholder farms
The global agriculture and food system is being rapidly transformed. What would be the role of smallholder farmers in this process? Is small still beautiful in today’s global food security equation? In...
View ArticleIFPRI’s outcome stories
I am very pleased to announce the launch of IFPRI’s outcome stories website. To ensure that IFPRI remains relevant in an increasingly changing global landscape, the Institute tracks the outcomes and...
View ArticleScience has bigger say in GM food
Golden riceSource: Flickr (IRRI) What is the role of genetically modified crops in meeting current and future global demand for food? The answer to this question has often generated contentious and...
View ArticleToward food secure China
Food security in China is increasingly challenged by a combination of different factors such as increasing demand, rapid urbanization, limited natural resources and rural labor supply, and higher risk...
View ArticleDigging deeper—hunger, undernutrition, and poverty linkages
Cycle of poverty and malnutrition (Source: Hans Konrad Biesalski) Hunger and undernutrition are said to be causes of poverty, and these concepts are often discussed together. However, the relationship...
View ArticleBattered But Not Broken: Building a Resilient Food System in Nepal
Source: IFPRI/Divya PandeyThe following post by IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan was originally published in the Huffington Post. While the major earthquakes in Nepal appear to have ended, the need...
View ArticleDebuts of the 2014-15 Global Food Policy Report
This year’s Global Food Policy Report—IFPRI’s flagship publication—is the fourth in an annual series which provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments in the past year. The topics...
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