Ending famines and chronic hunger requires good governance
Lessons from Bangladesh and Ethiopia on how to build reslience into food systems.
What Rwanda and Uganda can teach us about the benefits of hosting refugees
Research shows that with proper support, refugees can provide an economic boon to surrounding communities.
Harnessing information to improve public services for the rural poor: What are the possibilities, and what are the limits?
An IFPRI workshop examines ways in which (and sometimes whether) provisioning information to the public can result in more responsive governments.
Index insurance as an instrument for managing risk and modernizing agricultural production
An IFPRI trial in Bangladesh shows that index-based insurance—with payouts based on weather data or other benchmarks rather than actual losses—has benefits beyond mere compensation.
The role of food subsidies in Egypt’s rising malnutrition problems
An IFPRI seminar and a new book explore the changing role of food subsidies in Egypt's struggle with food security.
Cash transfers and health: It matters when you measure, and it matters how many health care workers are around to provide services
A close look at health-based conditional cash transfers in Tanzania reveals important nuances in how such increasingly popular programs work.
Free vouchers provide an efficient means to target disease prevention technology
A new Science study shows providing free vouchers for water treatments to the poor screens out those who won't use them without deterring those who do.
As India moves to replace food aid with cash, more evidence is needed on nutritional impacts
There is evidence that cash transfers can save money and reduce the routine theft that plagues food aid programs. But how will they impact nutrition?
Can linking social protection and agriculture end extreme poverty?
Social protection programs−broadly defined as initiatives offering cash or in-kind assistance to the poor−have expanded rapidly in recent decades, now covering an estimated two billion people living in developing countries. Such broad coverage, which…
Lean No More: Ethiopian Farmers Benefit from Anti-Hunger Program
For several months each year, poor farmers in Ethiopia, especially those in drought-prone areas, go hungry. During the so-called “lean” period between planting and harvesting, food supplies can run dangerously low. Sometimes, families have to sell…