Women are key to rural revitalization in developing countries, but various constraints and obstacles limit their contributions to their households and communities. During our research seminar on June 12, Elena Martinez and Emily Myers, Research Analysts at IFPRI, Washington DC, presented the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) and its modifications as tools that quantify […]
Poster on Poverty in Malawi, 2016–2017
IFPRI Malawi is pleased to announce the publication of a Poster on Poverty in Malawi, 2016–2017, which complements our fifth Key Facts Sheet on poverty. The poster was developed to illustrate the incidence, gap and distribution of poverty throughout Malawi.
Measuring and reducing food loss in developing countries
This blog is cross-posted from the IFPRI website and was originally written by Swati Malhotra. The amount of food loss and waste in supply chains is significant. The most widely cited estimate, by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), is that as much as one third of total usable global food production is not […]
World Environment Day: The need for strong institutions and policies to restore and protect planetary health
This blog is cross-posted from the main IFPRI website and was written by Claudia Ringler and Ruth Meinzen-Dick. As people and organizations around the globe mark World Environment Day (June 5), all signs point to an unprecedented and rapid decline in planetary health. A preview of a global report on biodiversity, the most comprehensive to […]
The relationship between forest cover and diet quality: a case study of rural southern Malawi
The importance of forests in supporting the well-being of poor rural communities in developing countries cannot be overstated, not only for improving food security but also for biodiversity conservation. A study recently published in Food Security journal examined whether there is a relationship between forest cover and diet quality at the household level in rural […]
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