- General InformationThe study was conducted by IFPRI in collaboration with the Noguchi Memorial Institute of Medical Research and the World Health Organization. Data collection completed in 1998 included participatory community studies, household case studies, a ...
- General InformationThe Knowledge, Capacity, and Innovation Division (formerly ISNAR) works to improve the functioning of food and agriculture systems by facilitating knowledge management—the creation, accumulation, sharing, and utilization of knowledge—and ...
- General InformationGood health and productive agriculture—both essential in the fight against poverty—are interlinked, as good health requires productive agriculture and productive agriculture requires healthy people. Consideration of these linkages throughout the ...
- General InformationThis brochure describes fully the work of The Food Management and Research Support Project, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by the International Food Policy Research Institute. The project was ...
- General InformationLa demande de biocarburants est en augmentation sous l’effet combiné des besoins croissants en énergie, de la hausse des coûts de l’énergie, de la quête de nouvelles sources d’énergies propres et renouvelables et de la volonté de revaloriser les ...
- General Information“For more than 300 million people, an inexpensive bowl of beans is the centerpiece of their daily diet. The common bean-Phaseolus vulgaris-is the world’s most important food legume, far more so than chickpeas, faba beans, lentils, and ...
- General Information“An estimated 70 million people obtain more than 500 calories per day from cassava. With its productivity on marginal soils; ability to withstand disease, drought, and pests; and flexible harvest dates, cassava is a remarkably adaptable and ...
- General Information“Maize is the preferred staple food of more than 1.2 billion people in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Over 50 million people in these regions are vitamin A deficient. Maize-based diets, particularly those of extremely poor ...
- General Information“Rice is the dominant cereal crop in many developing countries and is the staple food for more than half of the world’s population. In several Asian countries, rice provides 50-80 percent of the energy intake of the poor. Because of ...
- General Information“Vitamin A deficiency affects over 140 million children under the age of five. In the absence of adequate amounts of vitamin A immune systems suffer irreversible damage and blindness occurs. A recent study found that boiled orange-fleshed ...
- General Information“”In developing countries, particularly in South and West Asia, about half a billion people are iron deficient. In many of these same regions, wheat is considered a major staple food. The main objective of biofortifying wheat is to ...
- General InformationBiofuel demand is increasing because of a combination of growing energy needs; rising oil costs; the pursuit of clean, renewable sources of energy; and the desire to boost farm incomes in developed countries. In turn, the need for crops—such as ...
- General InformationMore than 840 million people do not get enough food to meet their daily energy needs. However, far more—an estimated 3 billion people—suffer the insidious effects of micronutrient deficiencies because they lack access to more nutritious foods ...
- General InformationGlobal climate change poses great risks to poor people whose livelihoods depend directly on agriculture, forestry, and other natural resource uses. IFPRI’s climate change research focuses on the assessment of, adaptation to, and mitigation of ...
- General Informationles politiques et les programmes d’alimentation et de nutrition sont-ils en mesure d’aider à endiguer la propagation du VIH/sida et en atténuer les effets ? décomposent en six programmes de recherche, chacun donnant lieu à des études ...
- General Information“La producción sostenible de alimentos abundantes y de alta calidad es el primer paso crucial hacia la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional. No obstante, la producción no es suficiente para lograr que todos tengan una nutrición óptima.Toda ...
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- General InformationOver the period mid-October, 1997, through early February, 1998, CARE Tanzania implemented an Urban Livelihood Security Assessment (ULSA) in Dar es Salaam. The goal of the ULSA was to identify needs for urban programming in Dar es Salaam. In ...
- General InformationThe Knowledge, Capacity, and Innovation Division (formerly ISNAR) works to improve the functioning of food and agriculture systems by facilitating knowledge management—the creation, accumulation, sharing, and utilization of knowledge—and ...
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- General InformationThe 2007/08 international food price crisis caused hardship on a number of fronts. The steep rise in food prices led to economic difficulties for the poor and generated political turmoil in many countries. The crisis could also result in ...
- General InformationAgriculture is vitally important to the world’s hungry people, the majority of whom live in rural areas and depend on the land for their food and livelihoods. Yet the increasing fragility of the natural resource base, compounded by global ...
- General InformationL’agriculture est d’une importance vitale pour les populations mondiales qui souffrent de la faim et dont la majorité vit dans les zones rurales, dépendant de la terre pour assurer leur alimentation et leur survie. Cependant, la ...
- General InformationEl presente trabajo establece la estrategia del Instituto Internacional de Investigación sobre Políticas Alimentarias para la próxima década. Este nuevo enfoque de la estrategia del IFPRI es oportuno, porque durante la última década se ...
- General InformationThis paper sets out the strategy for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) for the next decade. A new look at IFPRI’s strategy is timely, because progress on reducing hunger and malnutrition in the developing world slowed ...
- General InformationThe Food Consumption and Nutrition Division (FCND) takes the lead at IFPRI on research to improve economic access to food and the ability to harness food for growth and nutrition. The FCND research program asks: How do policies and programs ...
- General InformationThe Hogares Comunitarios Program (HCP) was established in Guatemala City in 1991 as a direct response to the increased need for affordable and reliable childcare for women in urban Guatemala. The government-sponsored pilot program was designed as ...
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- General InformationAchieving food security for all will require access to resources by the poor, better technologies for producing and distributing food supplies, more efficient and accountable governments, and timely and appropriate policies in the areas of food ...
- General InformationAchieving food security for all will require access to resources by the poor, better technologies for producing and distributing food supplies, more efficient and accountable governments, and timely and appropriate policies in the areas of food ...
- General InformationAchieving food security for all will require access to resources by the poor, better technologies for producing and distributing food supplies, more efficient and accountable governments, and timely and appropriate policies in the areas of food ...
- General InformationAchieving food security for all will require access to resources by the poor, better technologies for producing and distributing food supplies, more efficient and accountable governments, and timely and appropriate policies in the areas of food ...
- General InformationAchieving food security for all will require access to resources by the poor, better technologies for producing and distributing food supplies, more efficient and accountable governments, and timely and appropriate policies in the areas of food ...
- General InformationIFPRI’s research is guided by a mission of generating knowledge to reduce poverty, hunger, and malnutrition. IFPRI’s strategy describes the Institute’s programs and its research and capacity strengthening goals. In pursuit of ...
- General InformationSeveral major initiatives in the past few years have brought renewed attention and commitment to economic development and food and nutrition security in Africa. The recent economic recovery and the new commitment to change among African leaders ...
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- General InformationThe vision of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is a world free of hunger and malnutrition. Capacity strengthening is vital to realizing this vision. Capacity development contributes to agricultural growth, poverty ...
- General InformationThis paper sets out the strategy for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) for the next decade. A new look at IFPRI’s strategy is timely because hunger and malnutrition in the developing world remain persistently high. ...
- General InformationIn January 2007, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) published its first Africa Strategy, the first of any region. That first edition of the strategy was completed after a thorough review of the institute’s activities in the ...
- General InformationIn the global scenario, Asia—comprising East Asia and the Pacific, Central Asia and part of Europe, and South Asia—accounts for 59 percent of the population, contributes 15 percent of the global gross domestic product (GDP), and is home to more ...
- General InformationThe Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region is host to some of the most difficult environments in the world, either because of altitude, climate, or topography, or because of huge inequalities in the distribution of land (the bottom 60 percent ...
- General InformationThe Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region faces a number of very distinct food security challenges. The region is the most food import dependent region in the world, the population is projected to double by 2050, unemployment, poverty and ...
- General InformationExecutive Summary This document sets out the strategy for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) for the next decade. The Institute’s vision and mission are cornerstones of the strategy: IFPRI’s Vision is ...
- General InformationThis paper sets out the strategy for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) for the next decade. A new look at IFPRI’s strategy is timely, because progress on reducing hunger and malnutrition in the developing world slowed ...
- General InformationThis paper sets out the strategy for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) for the next decade. A new look at IFPRI’s strategy is timely, because progress on reducing hunger and malnutrition in the developing world slowed ...
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- General InformationIn 1997, CARE-Bangladesh undertook a livelihood security assessment of urban slum households in the cities of Tongi, Khulna and Bogra. Based on the findings of that study and a review of secondary literature, the SHAHAR (Supporting Household ...
- General Information“En el presente documento se enuncia la estrategia del Instituto Internacional de Investigación sobre Políticas Alimentarias (IFPRI) para la próxima década. Este es un momento oportuno para repasar la estrategia del IFPRI ya que el hambre y ...
- General InformationInadequate policies, institutions, and rural infrastructure lead to agricultural markets that do not function efficiently. As a consequence, the poor pay more for their food and receive less for their produce. To enhance the efficiency of ...
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- General InformationLa agricultura es de vital importancia para personas que sufren hambre en el mundo. En su gran mayoría estas personas viven en áreas rurales y dependen de la tierra como medio de vida para lograr su sustento. Más aún, el creciente deterioro de ...
- General InformationThe majority of poor people in developing countries rely on agriculture for their food and livelihoods. However, they are increasingly vulnerable and food insecure due to declining agricultural productivity growth, climate change susceptibility, ...
- General InformationAs policymakers decide how to allocate public spending to achieve higher growth and poverty reduction, they need a clear understanding of how public investments translate into development outcomes. In many cases policymakers also need better ...
- General InformationThe likelihood of transgenic plants causing harm to the environment or to human health has led to the development of regulatory regimes that are specifically applied to assessing the biosafety of these products. Development of an effective ...
- General InformationPara decidir cómo asignar el gasto público de manera de lograr un mayor crecimiento económico y la reducción de la pobreza, los responsables de formular las políticas deben comprender cabalmente cómo la inversión pública se traduce en ...
- General InformationLorsque les décideurs arrêtent une répartition des dépenses publiques permettant d’augmenter la croissance économique et de réduire la pauvreté, ils ont besoin de bien comprendre comment les investissements publics se traduisent en termes ...
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- General Information“Ce document présente la stratégie de l’Institut international de recherche sur les politiques alimentaires (IFPRI) pour la prochaine décennie. Il était opportun de reconsidérer la stratégie de l’IFPRI car la dernière décennie a ...
- General InformationThis paper sets out the strategy for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) for the next decade. A new look at IFPRI’s strategy is timely because hunger and malnutrition in the developing world remain persistently high. ...
- General InformationFood and agricultural systems in developing countries connect with the rest of the economy and with the world through a network of markets. Changes in world markets directly affect national economies and changes in domestic nonfood policies ...
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