BLOGS
Guest Posts
May 11, 2020
BY PROFESSOR RAMESH CHAND With COVID-19, the world is in an unchartered territory of policymaking where global, regional and domestic
Blogs
April 29, 2020
APRIL 28, 2020 BY LAWRENCE HADDAD “Biblical.” That was the word that the world’s press needed to (finally) run stories
Issue Posts
March 19, 2020
Analyses on the threats the COVID-19 poses to food security and development around the world. IFPRI has published several blog
Issue Posts
March 3, 2020
In her recent 2020 budget speech, India Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a 16-point agenda to kickstart growth in agriculture and farmers’ income. While the agenda makes sense, following the money presents a disconcerting prospect. Less than 10% of the $30 billion budgeted for agriculture will support capital formation or R&D. Economies can’t grow without investment and innovation. This budget provides money for neither.
Issue Posts
February 28, 2020
BY DEEPAK VARSHNEY, ANJANI KUMAR, P.K. JOSHI AND DEVESH ROY India’s Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi program, known as PM-KISAN, announced in Dec. 2018,
Event Posts
February 24, 2020
Each year, about 1.3 billion tons of food produced for human consumption is lost after harvest and before reaching consumers around
Event Posts
February 24, 2020
BY JULIA WILSON For decades, high fish prices contributed to poor nutrition in Bangladesh, placing a key source of protein
Issue Posts
February 18, 2020
BY Sunil Saroj, Devesh Roy and Mamta Pradhan One of the great examples that economists give on the power of
Issue Posts
February 18, 2020
BY MANMEET AJMANI, VISHRUTA CHOUDHARY AND DEVESH ROY In November, India decided to opt out of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the world’s newest and