News
Featured news
-
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…
Read more -
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…
Read more -
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…
Read more -
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…
Read more -
-
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…
Read more -
International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
Read more
Filters
-
The critical and complex need to address food safety in Africa
13.02.19-
Food security
-
Health
Solving the health problems of foodborne disease in Africa is only part of the food…
Read more -
-
Major breakthrough for farmers and scientists as Nigerian biotech body approves commercial release of genetically modified cowpea
11.02.19-
Food security
Following more than two decades of research, field trials, and risk assessment by multiple organizat…
Read more -
-
The 2018 Farm Bill is good news for international agricultural development
08.02.19-
Food security
The December passage of the 2018 U.S. Farm Bill is good news for professionals who develop and…
Read more -
-
There’s a new goal post for agriculture: It’s nutrition.
08.02.19-
Food security
-
Nutrition
This blog post is the first in a 3-part series accompanying the release of the…
Read more -
-
Is our global food system broken?
08.02.19-
Food security
-
Nutrition
An interview with Professor John Ingram, Oxford University Q: What is the EAT-Lancet report? JI:…
Read more -
-
Use of Targeted Genome Editing
07.02.19-
Food security
-
Nutrition
"CGIAR can play a role both in the development of crops and in the regulation…
Read more -
-
In Nepal, bureaucrats’ local knowledge and motivation make a difference in serving rural farmers
06.02.19-
Food security
The villages of Barbote and Pyang are located in neighboring districts in the far west…
Read more -
-
Land restoration is a strategic investment in Ethiopia
05.02.19-
Environmental health
-
Food security
Productive land leads to many benefits but achieving productivity needs a change of thinking. The…
Read more -
-
Are we eating less meat?—Oxford Martin School fellow Hannah Ritchie confirms ‘No’
05.02.19-
Food security
-
Nutrition
Broken Record Alert: People WILL NOT change their diets for environmental reasons. No matter how…
Read more -
-
Lessons from IFPRI country programs on influencing policy decisions and strengthening capacity
04.02.19-
Food security
-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
It is often argued that the more researchers engage with policymakers, the more likely that…
Read more -
-
Food and agriculture at a crossroads
04.02.19-
Food security
Over the past century, enormous progress has been made in improving human welfare worldwide, thanks…
Read more -
-
Working with universities in developing countries
04.02.19-
Food security
-
Nutrition
“ The SDGs require a common effort, everybody has a role.” In this video interview, Nighisty…
Read more -
-
State capacity and agricultural service provision: The case of rural Nepal
01.02.19-
Food security
-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In Nepal, bureaucrats’ local knowledge and motivation make a difference in serving rural farmers. …
Read more -
-
Repairing food systems failures: Policies, innovations and partnerships
01.02.19-
Food security
-
Nutrition
The current food system is failing us. We need to develop a more integrated systems perspective…
Read more -
-
STAARS fellowship accepting applications for 2019
31.01.19-
Food security
-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS) fellowship program m…
Read more -
-
Lessons from IFPRI country programs on influencing policy decisions and strengthening capacity
30.01.19-
Food security
It is often argued that the more researchers engage with policymakers, the more likely that…
Read more -
-
Climate change policy must distinguish (long-lived) carbon dioxide from (short-lived) methane–Oxford study
29.01.19-
Environmental health
-
Food security
Left to right: Auto rickshaw by eCSSpert, Untitled (Plate with Knife and Fork) by Klaas…
Read more -
-
Mekong Expert Group on Agroforestry: impact on ASEAN
29.01.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
-
Food security
The Mekong Expert Group on Agroforestry for Food and Nutrition Security, Sustainable Agriculture and…
Read more -