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International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Food security
Health

The COVID-19 outbreak is showing a new trend. While the situation in China has improved…

International Open Data Day 2020: Crowdsourcing global insights from national data in Bangladesh

Gender equality
Nutrition

Collecting and sharing data and other information publicly is crucial for researchers, policy makers…

Four tools ILRI is using to help livestock systems transform to greater gender equality

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

Food security
Gender equality

By Zoë Campbell The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is ‘I Am Generation…

Delegates during the launch meeting of APSAN-Mali project at ICRISAT-Samanko in Mali. Photo: N Diakite, ICRISAT

New EU-funded project to improve food and nutrition security in Mali, to benefit 40,000 people

CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)

Food security
Nutrition

A new project aimed at improving food and nutrition security in Mali by enhancing crop…

Coronavirus Threat Looms Large for Low-Income Cities

05.03.20

Health

In our increasingly interconnected world, outbreaks of infectious diseases – such as Ebola, SARS a…

A new method of agricultural growth accounting

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

04.03.20

Food security

Agriculture plays a fundamental role in human history and has always been integral to world…

A woman in Niger measures her baby's arm circumference—part of a program that teaches mothers to regularly monitor for signs of malnutrition. Such integrated nutrition interventions can play a key role in improving overall public health, according to IFPRI Senior Research Fellow Harold Alderman.

Time to act on malnutrition in all its forms in West Africa

CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)

03.03.20

Nutrition

This post, which originally appeared on Transform Nutrition West Africa, explores how West Africa is…

A woman holds a package of iron-biofortified beans at a Rwandan agricultural fair. A new study shows that providing such beans to iron-deficient women in Rwanda improved their ability to perform physical work.

Linking iron-biofortified beans and physical performance

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

03.03.20

Health
Nutrition

Deficiency in key dietary micronutrients remains a significant nutrition problem in low- and middle-…

Agriculture in India's budget: Paying farmers keeps them poor

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Food security
Gender equality

In her recent 2020 budget speech, India Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a 16-point ag…

US nutrition experts say limits on saturated fats should no longer be recommended to reduce heart disease

Health
Nutrition

Graphic by the Aldas Project, 2012. ‘Following a two-day, DC-based workshop entitled “Saturated …

We need a new approach, or another coronavirus is inevitable

Health

‘Until we start thinking of human and animal health as linked, another coronavirus is inevitable�…

ILRI Forage Genebank duplicates one-third of its collection for safe, long-term storage in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault