According to a widely-cited study by Shang-Jin Wei of Columbia University, Xiaobo Zhang of IFPRI and Yin Liu of Tsinghua University, the increase in China’s sex ratio, and thus the heightened competition for brides, can explain up to 48% of the r…
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Coffee fungus threatens disaster for Central America’s farmers – Financial Times
Maximo Torero at the Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute, is concerned about the fallow years until output recovers. “The three year window could be very serious,” he says. In Caruchil co-operative, Mr Molina and his …
Africa’s urbanisation: making sense of the numbers – How we made it in Africa
… as the new roadworks and flurry of construction in Addis Ababa so vividly demonstrate. However, according to IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute) in 2007, 38% of the population remains five or more hours away from a city
Le Parlement s’interroge sur le bien-fondé des biocarburants – EurActiv
Searchinger’s reading of one key report produced for the EU by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) found that of every 100 calories from wheat or maize diverted to food tanks by bioethanol production, 25 calories were not rep…
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Demystifying Pakistan’s water sector through Net-Map
Appearances can be deceiving: There’s always a backstory, the behind-the-scenes truths of how we moved from point A to point B. How the intangible dynamics of power structures, information pathwa…