poverty reduction

POVERTY REDUCTION

Blog
December 1, 2021
Disparate health and nutrition impacts of income shocks across different household members: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan
New study shows that income shocks, like those caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, can significantly reduce health and nutrition status of children under 5.
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Events
February 24, 2020
Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty [POSTPONED]
The annual Land and Poverty Conference “Institution for Equity and Resilience” postponed to March 22–26, 2021. 
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Publications
December 10, 2019
Rethinking poverty eradication and food security through agriculture in Africa
It is time for policymakers, agricultural researchers, and practitioners to recognize the need to separate food security and poverty eradication, a new paper argues.
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Blog
April 15, 2019
New data offers insights into rural poverty and undernutrition in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea is home to approximately 7 million people, and is struggling to ensure adequate nutrition for its citizens. One of the country’s largest challenges is a lack of data to inform food security and nutrition indicators.
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Webinar
December 5, 2018
WEBINAR: Aspirations, trust, and poverty reduction
Understanding the psychological dimensions of poverty is critical for understanding how to alleviate it. This webinar with Katrina Kosec on Dec 19 will highlight novel research on two psychological phenomena that are closely linked with experiencing poverty and economic vulnerability: 1) having low aspirations, or ambitions, for the future, and 2) having low levels of trust or confidence in one’s government.
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Blog
April 29, 2018
Why is social protection important for agriculture and resilience? Watch our colleagues explain! (Part 1, Daniel Gilligan)
In this video, Daniel Gilligan, senior research fellow at IFPRI and leader of PIM's research flagship “Social Protection for Agriculture and Resilience”, discusses why social protection programs, such as cash transfers, food rations, school meals, and public works are now a leading strategy that governments use to help reduce poverty and help households to become more resilient.
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Blog
October 16, 2017
International Day of Rural Women: Women’s land rights need to be at heart of tenure reforms to help eradicate poverty
Why are land rights so important to rural women? Quite simply, land is the most valuable asset among many rural people and households, as land is the foundation of rural livelihoods.
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Blog
July 26, 2017
New paper discusses women’s land rights as a pathway to poverty reduction
The new IFPRI discussion paper reviews the literature on women's land rights (WLR) and poverty reduction. It adapts the Gender, Agriculture and Assets Project (GAAP) conceptual framework to identify pathways by which WLR could reduce poverty and increase wellbeing of women and their households in rural areas.
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Blog
June 28, 2016
Karen Brooks: agricultural research contributes to rural prosperity directly and indirectly
In this video recorded at this year's ISPC Science Forum 2016, Karen Brooks, director of the CGIAR Research Program on
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