Looking at the World’s Most Deprived

At the turn of the millennium seven years ago, the international community made a commitment to halve the proportion of people living in extreme poverty and hunger between 1990 and 2015. Now, at the halfway point between the millennium declaration and the deadline, it is clear the world has achieved considerable progress. However, though poverty [...]

Participant Reactions: Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere

Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere, Director, International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR)
Mr. Asenso-Okyere discusses the importance of innovation systems not only for sharing information with poor farmers in developing countries but also for empowering them to be able to apply this knowledge on their own farms in order to increase productivity and income.

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IFPRI Issues Call for A Way Forward

Concerned that millions of the world’s poorest and hungry people remain in poverty and hunger, we at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) facilitated a consultation process, which includes the conference “Taking Action for the World’s Poor and Hungry People” on October 17–19 in Beijing, to examine what new and different action is required [...]

Opening Ceremony Panel Takes Stock of Progress, Challenges for Reducing Poverty and Hunger

Khalid Malik, reading a statement on behalf of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, declared “(o)ur global scorecard is mixed. The proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day has fallen, and we remain on track to meet the MDG target of halving extreme poverty. But progress has been uneven, and some regions [...]

2020 Focus Briefs on the World’s Poor and Hungry People

The conference organizers have commissioned 36 policy briefs on key issues concerning Taking Action for the World’s Poor and Hungry People. Together, these briefs address who the poorest and hungry are, what the pathways out of extreme poverty and hunger are, and how to implement and scale up action for the poor and hungry.
The first [...]

Building a collaborative bibliography on global poverty and hunger

In anticipation of the upcoming conference, the IFPRI Library and Knowledge Management Team has set up a new platform for assembling a reading list of the leading research articles, working papers, books and other Web-based content related to reducing poverty and hunger throughout the developing world. You can view recently suggested resources by visiting the [...]

Looking beyond the Millennium Development Goals

Even if the poverty and hunger Millennium Development Goal is achieved, millions of the world’s poorest and hungry people will be left behind. New and different action is required to improve the welfare of these people.
When the Millennium Development Goals were adopted in 2000, 1.3 billion people were living in poverty and 800 [...]