Dr. Li Jiayang, the new President of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), and his delegation visited IFPRI on Tuesday May 1. CAAS has been leading agricultural research and innovation in China for 55 years and is currently one of the largest agricultural research institutes in the world. The Academy serves as the focal [...]

Sporadic rainfall, crop shortages, and high food prices are again threatening the food and nutrition security of millions of people in Africa’s Sahel region. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, more than 15 million people across 7 countries—Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, and the Gambia—are already suffering [...]

Today IFPRI launched its Global Food Policy Report, the first in a new annual series. The Report provides a comprehensive overview of major policy changes at the global, regional, national and local levels, as well as their significance for food and nutrition security. It makes the case for keeping food policy issues high on the [...]

On Friday April 13 the Honorable Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources of Nigeria, Dr. Akin Adesina, together with his team of directors from the Ministry, visited IFPRI to discuss initiatives underway to further transform agriculture in Nigeria and unlock its potential to reduce hunger and poverty. Dr. Adesina brought to his new position as [...]

Last week, I was invited to speak at the launch of the 2012 Africa Capacity Indicators Report, a flagship publication of the African Capacity Building Foundation. The launch brought together a number of distinguished speakers, including Dr. Mo Ibrahim, the Founder and Chair of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation and Dr. Ibrahim Mayaki, the CEO of [...]

The Rio+20United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development is around the corner, and comes at a crucial time for food security around the world. Marking the 20th anniversary of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, it is due to take place in Brazil from June 20-22, 2012. I just came back from the [...]