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The bioeconomy approach to sustainable development holds great promise in reducing dependence on fossil fuels, addressing climate change, and promoting resource-use efficiency, thereby stimulating economic...

While the key role that policy plays in sustainable development has long been recognized, rigorously documenting the influence of research on policy outcomes faces conceptual, empirical...

The incidence of hunger is now at one in nine people on the planet, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)1, which marks a notable decline despite an equally...

We use IFPRI’s IMPACT framework of linked biophysical and structural economic models to examine developments in global agricultural production systems, climate change, and food security...

This was the first Global Nutrition Report, developed to track the commitments made at the 2013 Nutrition for Growth Summit. It tracks global progress in improving nutritional status...

The 2015 Global Nutrition Report makes clear that global progress to reduce malnutrition has been too slow. It also highlights the relationship between climate...

The 2016 Global Nutrition Report focuses on making and measuring global commitments to nutrition, and what it will take to end all forms of malnutrition by 2030. The report...

This paper provides a helpful framing to understand both why and how policy attention and investments should be channelled through agriculture and agrifood systems as key vehicles...

IFPRI’s Flagship Report puts into perspective the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2015 and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2016. This year’s report takes a special...