IFPRI Annual Report 2006-2007
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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Within its overall strategy, IFPRI has developed an Africa strategy to respond to new demands and challenges in that continent. This has involved reassessment and realignment of the Institute’s research, capacity-strengthening, and policy communications activities, as well as rethinking and modifying the nature of its partnerships in Africa. The resulting Africa strategy provides guidance for the Institute’s programs and operational approaches in Africa, and establishes a basis for closer cooperation with a number of universities and regional and subregional organizations.
This year’s annual report features three essays that focus on the challenges involved in improving the lives of the poorest and the hungry. In one of the essays, Joachim von Braun discusses the increasing complexities of reducing poverty. He notes the need for fast-growing developing economies to increase social protection in order to reconcile the reduction of poverty with the maintenance or acceleration of economic growth. He comments on the importance of agrarian economies taking improvement in agricultural performance seriously within programs designed to accelerate rural economic growth for poverty reduction. In another essay, Amrita Patel, head of India’s successful National Dairy Development Board, discusses rural development and gender issues. In a third essay, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka provides a striking analysis of the connections between cultural traditions and poverty.
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biofuels, food prices