Addressing obstacles to free trade; modeling migration from sea-level change; and more.
IFPRI is pleased to welcome as its new Director General Jo Swinnen, an agricultural economist with more than 30 years of experience in policy-relevant research. Read more.
IFPRI/ESSP is pleased to present its quarterly newsletter for the months of October - December 2019. The newsletter provides update on the recent presentations and latest publications. It also highlights some of ESSP's achievements in 2019 and more.
The new IFPRI-ESSP 2020 Brochure summarizes: • The Program Objectives • Strategic Policy Research Areas • Collaboration and Partnerships • Capacity Strengthening and Outreach Download the PDF.
The Telegraph (UK) published an opinion by Kalle Hirvonen, a Senior Research Fellow and co-author (with Derek Headey) of the study, Affordability of the EAT-Lancet reference diet: A global analysis. Hirvonen writes that after using the cheapest locally available items in each food group in each country, the study found that at least 1.58 billion people globally could not possibly […]
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has for decades contributed significantly on key topics for effective service delivery. Building on earlier work, this brief summarizes research led by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) over the last seven years that focuses on agricultural and social protection services to inform policymakers […]
Re-posted from Aliveandthrive. Many Ethiopians have little variety in their diets because foods such as meats and poultry and some fruits and vegetables are unavailable or too expensive, according to new research. Researchers looked at consumption, production, availability, and affordability in six regions of Ethiopia, to understand how well the regions’ food systems—from farm inputs […]
Ethiopia has made substantial progress in addressing malnutrition over the last decade. The National Nutrition Program (NNP), has gradually expanded in scope since its 2008 launch. The Sequota Declaration Implementation Plan—aimed at ending undernutrition by 2030—has fostered work across sectors. Stunting (low height for age) rates dropped from 51% to 38% between 2005 and 2016. […]
Actions to address different forms of malnutrition are typically managed by separate communities, policies, programmes, governance structures, and funding streams. By contrast, double-duty actions, which aim to simultaneously tackle both undernutrition and problems of overweight, obesity, and diet-related non-communicable diseases (DR-NCDs) have been proposed as a way to effectively address malnutrition in all its forms […]
A new journal article by Katrina Kosec and Tewodaj Mogues. Abstract: This paper examines the impacts of devolving authority for public resource allocation to local governments in a setting of limited electoral control. Such a setting differs from that assumed by seminal formal models of devolution, but describes many developing countries. This study presents a […]
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