Food

Fires in humid tropical forests are increasingly frequent due to severe dry seasons, forest degradation and agricultural expansion. One agent implicated in current discourse surrounding tropical forest fires is the small-scale farming peasantry who rely on fire in swidden (shifting cultivation, slash-and-burn) agriculture. The environmental degradation associated with fire has led to government responses at […]

This article describes various opportunities but also constraints to greater crop diversification, and the impact on local sustainability in the Khorezm province of Uzbekistan in the Aral Sea basin. At present, approximately 70% of the area in this study region is sown to irrigated cotton and winter wheat under the so-called state mandate. We present […]

This blog story by IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan was originally posted on The Guardian’s Global Development Professionals Network.Read more about food security and development on IFPRI’s blog. With the deadline for achieving the millennium development goals less than two years away, international attention is shifting toward forming sustainable development goals for the post-2015 agenda. […]

Originally published by Pascal Corbe, Global Donor Platform Secretariat Interview with Marie Ruel, Director Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division at IFPRI Local value chains are a leverage point for improving micronutrient-rich food supply, access, and intake – they are key to healthy diets in areas threatened by food insecurity. However, more research is needed to […]

View FAO’s new resources page on SDGs and the post-2015 development agenda The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have revealed common targets and indicators for sustainable agriculture, food security and nutrition. The targets and indicators are a critical piece in […]

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change confirms that in the next few decades climate change will result in crop losses. However, is disaster really inevitable? A lot is determined by how farmers, investors and policy makers handle the situation.  By Sonja Vermeulen, Head of Research CCAFS; originally published on CCAFS blog   This week the […]