An article in The Journal of Nutrition assesses the relative caloric prices for different food categories across 176 countries and finds that prices vary systematically across countries and partially explain international differences in the prevalences of undernutrition and overweight adults. In an IFPRI blog post, the paper’s authors—IFPRI Senior Research Fellows Derek Headey and Harold […]
Featured Resources: Week of June 24
The Malabo Montpellier Panel report Byte by byte: policy innovation for transforming Africa’s food system with digital technologies examines what seven African countries at the forefront of progress on digitalization of the agriculture sector have done right, from apps such as FarmCrowdy and FarmDrive using Big Data to help farmers access loans to Rwanda’s construction […]
Featured Resources: Week of May 21
Improved management of natural and man-made shocks in the short-term, and greater investments in political, social and economic underpinnings of societies in the longer term can reduce risks of food crises. This would lower food assistance expenditures significantly, according to the new World Food Programme (WFP) report “Preventing Food Crises.” Additional highlights from this week’s […]
Featured Resources: Week of May 7
Hidden Hunger: Strategies to Improve Nutrition Quality, edited by H.K. Biesalski and R. Birner, illustrates the global fight against hunger by national governments and international organizations. The book includes a chapter on Compact2025 showing that with the proper framework, committed national leadership, and adequate funding, hunger and undernutrition can be eliminated by 2025. Additional highlights […]
Featured Resources: Week of March 26
In 2017, 124 million people in 51 countries were affected by acute food insecurity—11 million more people than the previous year—finds the Global Report on Food Crises 2018. It concludes that food crises are increasingly determined by complex causes such as conflict, extreme climatic shocks, and high prices of staple foods often acting at the […]
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