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IFPRI Insights: February 2023

IFPRI Insights: February 2023 Food Inflation; Export Restrictions; Common Lands; & More.

Issue Post: International Day of Women and Girls in Science: Interview with Purnima Menon

To mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (February 11)—which this year focuses on sustainability—we asked Dr. Menon about her development as a scientist, her work, and her perspectives on women and girls in STEM.

IFPRI Blog: Is Food Price Inflation Really Subsiding?

Almost a year after the February 2022 Russian invasion in Ukraine, fears of a period of sustained high global food prices have subsided somewhat, but eight major concerns for food security remain. First, prices for food commodities remain high by historical standards. As shown in Figure 1, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) index […]

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.