The political economy of MGNREGS spending in Andhra Pradesh
While government spending on pro-poor community asset creation and income-transfers could have compounding positive effects on poverty reduction, it is important to first study trends in the allocation
View ArticleGM agricultural technologies for Africa: a state of affairs
Agricultural biotechnology has been used to address constraints in agriculture and has the potential to make a major contribution to the overall goal of sustainable intensification. The adoption of...
View ArticleThe impact of India's Rural Employment Guarantee on demand for...
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is approaching eight years of implementation. Since 2006, it has offered up to 100 days per year of guaranteed public works employment
View ArticleHow to build resilience to conflict: the role of food security
This Food Policy Report explains why there is a need to place even higher priority on food security–related policies and programs in conflict-prone countries, and offers insights for policymakers...
View ArticleGlobal Hunger Index 2014
India ranks 55th out of 76 countries on 2014 Global Hunger Index and trails behind Bangladesh and Pakistan. Although country is no longer in the "alarming" category, but its hunger status is still...
View ArticleResilience for food and nutrition security
The concept of resilience is gaining traction in the development field. As a framework, resilience presents a systems-oriented way of coping with shocks, which disproportionately affect the world’s...
View ArticleAgriculture, incomes, and gender in Latin America by 2050: an assessment of...
This report has been prepared in response to growing concerns about the impacts of climate change on Latin American economies, agriculture, and people. Findings suggest that because of the climate change
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Is reliable water access the solution to undernutrition?: a review of the...
Interventions aimed at increasing water availability for livelihood and domestic activities have great potential to improve various determinants of undernutrition, such as the quantity and diversity of
View Article2014-2015 Global Food Policy report
This 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report is the fourth in an annual series that provides a comprehensive overview of major food policy developments and events. In this report, distinguished researchers,
View ArticleDelivering for nutrition in Madhya Pradesh: insights from a study on the...
In India, policies are in place to address the set of nutrition-specific interventions that will accelerate progress in nutrition, if implemented at scale. These interventions include iron and folic acid
View ArticleGlobal Nutrition Report 2015: actions and accountability to advance nutrition...
Children whose growth is stunted, people who don’t get enough vitamins and minerals for a healthy life, adults who are overweight and obese—malnutrition takes many forms and affects every country on...
View Article2015 Global Hunger Index: armed conflict and the challenge of hunger
The level of hunger in developing countries as a group has fallen by 27 percent since 2000. While the world has made progress in reducing hunger in recent decades, the state of hunger is still serious
View ArticleMacroeconomics, agriculture, and food security: a guide to policy analysis in...
Literature on macroeconomics is often technical, includes different approaches, and consists of many controversial ideas and methodologies. Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla’s new book, Macroeconomics, Agriculture,
View ArticleEstimating the cost of delivering direct nutrition interventions at scale:...
Undernutrition imposes a staggering cost worldwide in terms of lives lost, forgone productivity, healthcare spending, and reduced lifetime earnings. In India, nutrition policies recognize the multifaceted
View ArticleWhy some are more equal than others: country typologies of food security
This paper examines the different approaches and methodologies for classification of countries in terms of their food and nutrition security conditions. Its objective is to identify a number of country
View Article2016 Global Food Policy Report
IFPRI’s Flagship Report puts into perspective the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2015 and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2016. This year’s report takes a special
View ArticleClimate change impacts: prospects for 2050 in Brazil, Mexico, and Peru
This food policy report is a response to growing concerns about the impacts of climate change on Latin American economies, agriculture, and people. It assesses both local and global effects of changing
View ArticleEl Niño and cereal production shortfalls: policies for resilience and food...
The current El Niño episode may be among the strongest on record. Past El Niño episodes have caused rainfall and temperature fluctuations leading to agricultural production shortfalls, higher food prices,
View ArticleLong-term drivers of food and nutrition security
The 2015 Global Hunger Index suggests that despite progress in reducing hunger worldwide, hunger levels in 52 of 117 countries in the 2015 Global Hunger Index remain “serious” or “alarming.” Since...
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