The report ASTI Global Assessment of Agricultural R&D Spending, issued by the International Food Policy Research Institute’s (IFPRI), Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators initiative (ASTI) and the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), …
Household surveys, once a mostly low-tech activity, are becoming increasingly digital—with benefits for the quality and timeliness of IFPRI’s research results. Source: 2012 V. Agreda/IFPRI The digital divide can work in unexpected ways. When develo…
Large-scale land deals are increasingly common in some developing regions. What happens to the poor people who are already there? And what happens to women? The food price crises of recent years have unleashed a global land rush. Between 2000 and 2010,…
New issue of Insights magazine. Lead article asks how much meat is enough? Also in this issue: articles on large-scale land deals, using grain reserves to insure against risk, and computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI); interview with Frank Ri…
Global agricultural R&D spending in the public and private sectors steadily increased between 2000 and 2008. Most of this growth was driven by larger middle-income countries such as China and India.
