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International Food Policy Research Institute
Nonprofit•Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States•
About: International Food Policy Research Institute is a nonprofit organization based out in Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Food security & Agriculture. The organization has 1217 authors who have published 4952 publications receiving 218436 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the sustainable development goals (SDGs) as a globally significant test for the implementation of nexus thinking, and propose that the environment has to have a seat at the table for nexus analyses.
487 citations
TL;DR: An intent-to-treat model yields substantial effects of an experimental intervention that provided highly nutritious food supplements to children, a quarter century after it ended: increases of 1.2 grades completed for women and one quarter SD on standardised reading comprehension and non-verbal cognitive ability tests for both women and men.
Abstract: Using a longitudinal survey from rural Guatemala, we examine the effect of an early childhood nutritional intervention on adult educational outcomes. An intent-to-treat model yields substantial effects of an experimental intervention that provided highly nutritious food supplements to children, a quarter century after it ended: increases of 1.2 grades completed for women and one quarter SD on standardised reading comprehension and non-verbal cognitive ability tests for both women and men. Two-stage least squares results that endogenise the actual supplement intakes corroborate these magnitudes. Improving the nutrient intakes of very young children can have substantial, long-term, educational consequences.
487 citations
Australian National University1, University of Bordeaux2, Institut de recherche pour le développement3, International Food Policy Research Institute4, Food and Agriculture Organization5, Colorado State University6, University of Adelaide7, Tsinghua University8, University of Oxford9, University of Idaho10
TL;DR: It is shown that to mitigate global water scarcity, increases in IE must be accompanied by robust water accounting and measurements, a cap on extractions, an assessment of uncertainties, the valuation of trade-offs, and a better understanding of the incentives and behavior of irrigators.
Abstract: S.A.W. was supported by the Australian Research Council project FT140100773; C.R. was supported by the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land, and Ecosystems; and F.M. was supported by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) AMETHYST project (ANR-12 TMED-0006-01).
477 citations
TL;DR: A country×farming systems typology is developed for exploring the linkages between human needs, agriculture and the environment, and for assessing options for addressing future food security, land use and ecosystem service challenges facing different societies around the world.
Abstract: As a result of agricultural intensification, more food is produced today than needed to feed the entire world population and at prices that have never been so low. Yet despite this success and the impact of globalization and increasing world trade in agriculture, there remain large, persistent and, in some cases, worsening spatial differences in the ability of societies to both feed themselves and protect the long-term productive capacity of their natural resources. This paper explores these differences and develops a country×farming systems typology for exploring the linkages between human needs, agriculture and the environment, and for assessing options for addressing future food security, land use and ecosystem service challenges facing different societies around the world.
477 citations
TL;DR: This article used household survey data from 12 countries as well as data on malnutrition rates in a cross-section of countries since the 1970s to explore how rapidly child malnutrition responds to income growth.
Abstract: How rapidly will child malnutrition respond to income growth? This article explores that question using household survey data from 12 countries as well as data on malnutrition rates in a cross-section of countries since the 1970s. Both forms of analysis yield similar results. Increases in income at the household and national levels imply similar rates of reduction in malnutrition. Using these estimates and better than historical income growth rates, the article finds that the millennium development goal of halving the prevalence of underweight children by 2015 is unlikely to be met through income growth alone. What is needed to accelerate reductions in malnutrition is a balanced strategy of income growth and investment in more direct interventions.
476 citations
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| Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael B. Zimmermann | 83 | 437 | 23563 |
| Kenneth H. Brown | 79 | 353 | 23199 |
| Thomas Reardon | 79 | 285 | 25458 |
| Marie T. Ruel | 77 | 300 | 22862 |
| John Hoddinott | 75 | 357 | 21372 |
| Mark W. Rosegrant | 73 | 315 | 22194 |
| Agnes R. Quisumbing | 72 | 311 | 18433 |
| Johan F.M. Swinnen | 70 | 570 | 20039 |
| Stefan Dercon | 69 | 259 | 17696 |
| Jikun Huang | 69 | 430 | 18496 |
| Gregory J. Seymour | 66 | 385 | 17744 |
| Lawrence Haddad | 65 | 243 | 24931 |
| Rebecca J. Stoltzfus | 61 | 224 | 13711 |
| Ravi Kanbur | 61 | 498 | 19422 |
| Ruth Meinzen-Dick | 61 | 237 | 13707 |