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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
Biodiversity
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CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi…
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Food Policy Priorities for A Changing World
28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities…
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Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
16.05.25-
Big data
On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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As policy makers call for building capacity for food system transformation, who is listening?
21.01.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Since its emergence in the last few years as a leading paradigm, food system transformation…
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Gaining a better understanding of local fertilizer prices for African smallholder farmers
16.01.20-
Food security
Crop yields in Africa south of the Sahara are generally low, in large part because…
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IFPRI short video contest: Planting my path in Nepalese agriculture
16.01.20-
Food security
Second in a series of guest posts by winners of IFPRI's My Food, Our Future short video…
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IFPRI short video contest: School garden and healthy cooking program targets the double burden of malnutrition in Mexico
14.01.20-
Health
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Nutrition
irst in a series of guest posts by winners of IFPRI's My Food, Our Future short video…
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The promise and challenges of India’s Direct Benefit Transfer agricultural subsidies
13.01.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
Agriculture is the backbone of India’s rapidly-transforming economy, and one of the government’s…
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Investing in nutrition for long-term returns: improved human capital and productivity
09.01.20-
Health
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Nutrition
“Investments in improving nutrition in the first 1000 days should be considered as long-term econo…
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Analysis of ACE’s Warehouse Receipts and Market Information Systems: An IFPRI-ACE dissemination event
07.01.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
Providing smallholder farmers access to markets and price information is key to improving agricultur…
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Knowledge for a Sustainable Food Future: New Foresight Tool Examines Impact of Agricultural Investments
07.01.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
How can we feed 10 billion people by 2050? How much and in what ways…
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Jo Swinnen joins IFPRI as new director general
07.01.20IFPRI is pleased to welcome as its new Director General Jo Swinnen, an agricultural economist…
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Focus on the political and commercial drivers behind the double burden of malnutrition
03.01.20-
Health
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Nutrition
On Dec. 16, The Lancet published a new series of papers on The Double Burden of Malnutrition—th…
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Biofortification: A plausible antidote to India's hidden hunger problem
02.01.20-
Health
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Nutrition
A dip in India’s ranking in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) has rightly created a stir in…
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Double duty actions in nutrition: Preventing harm and maximizing impacts on all forms of malnutrition
02.01.20-
Health
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Nutrition
Traditionally, the term “malnutrition” has been applied to problems such as micronutrient defici…
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On why the EAT-Lancet’s ‘Great Food Transformation’ will require a ‘Great Economic Transformation’—and more
31.12.19-
Nutrition
Illustration by Hiroko Yoshimoto. A new paper by scientists at the International Food Policy Researc…
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Farmer Business Schools can help make smallholder agriculture a profitable enterprise
27.12.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
The idea of doubling Indian farmers’ incomes by 2022, when the country completes 75 years…
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Can weather index insurance help farmers adapt to climate change?
13.12.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Fourth in a series of blog posts examining the role of risk in agriculture under…
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Program launch: IFPRI, Rwanda government partner on policy analysis, capacity strengthening for rural transformation
12.12.19Building on its remarkable social and economic progress over the past two decades, Rwanda is…
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Seven climate resilience questions to help guardians of nature
11.12.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Third in a series of blog posts examining the role of risk in agriculture under climate…
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The crippling of the multilateral trading system
10.12.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As of today (Dec. 10), the dispute settlement mechanism of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has…
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