• August 2010

    IFPRI Director General on Flooding in Pakistan

    Source: flickr (Vicki Francis / DFID) Young men in front of a flooded field in Pakistan The flooding in Pakistan is one of the largest humanitarian disasters in recent memory. The crisis is affecting about 15 million people, almost a tenth of the population of the world’s sixth most populous country. Water has inundated about [...]

  • August 2010

    2020 conference video interview

    Interview with IFPRI Director General, Shenggen Fan, about the purpose of the forthcoming international conference, "Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition and Health" -- http://www.ifpri.org/2020-agriculture... -- to be held February 10-12, 2011 in New Delhi.