Globally, agricultural subsidies are high—totaling about $600 billion annually—and continue to increase. The harmful impacts of such subsidies on trade are widely known, but their harmful environmental impacts are less well-understood. This was the theme of a December 14 policy seminar organized by IFPRI in collaboration with the University of Adelaide, Australia (UA).
IFPRI Blog: The global food price crisis threatens to cause a global nutrition crisis: New evidence from 1.27 million young children on the effects of inflation
Frequent food crises with spiking prices have become the new normal in the 21st century, bringing urgency to the task of understanding their nutritional impacts on poor and food insecure populations. In a new analysis of 1.27 million children in 44 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) we show that exposure to food inflation in the womb and […]
IFPRI Blog: Unleashing the Power of Young Agripreneurs
Encouraging agripreneurship—entrepreneurial activity in agriculture—is crucial to addressing unemployment and underemployment among young people in developing and emerging economies around the world.
IFPRI Blog: Can Conditional Cash Transfers Boost Trust Within Communities? In Tanzania, they did
When we began working with the government of Tanzania to evaluate a pilot conditional cash transfer program, we heard similar concerns from policymakers: Would cash transfers provided by the state erode informal safety nets? After several years of evaluation, the answer appears to be no.
IFPRI Blog: How Mobile Technologies are Reducing Gender Inequities in Tanzania’s Agrifood System
Precision agriculture technology and digital services are rapidly changing food systems around the world. Mobile phones allow once-isolated communities to connect to new information networks and markets. Such technologies can have large benefits in countries where agriculture employs the bulk of the workforce and access to finance is still limited.
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