International Food Policy Research Institute

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: Agriculture & Food security. The organization has 1217 authors who have published 4952 publications receiving 218436 citations.

The food crisis isn't over.

Abstract: Although the credit crunch has lowered the price of food, a global recession now raises the hunger pains of the most vulnerable. The stage is set for the next international food crisis, says Joachim von Braun. The 'food crisis', lately top of the news agenda, has been displaced by economic woes. But as Joachim von Braun explains, recent events have made food shortages even more likely, and concerted international action is needed if people are not to starve. In Where Our Food Comes From, Gary Paul Nabhan constructs a history of agricultural biodiversity by following in the tracks of Russian botanist Nikolay Vavilov, who before being jailed by Stalin, was first to identify the world's centres of crop diversity. With the benefit of the long view provided by Vavilov and his own work as a conservationist, Nabhan makes the case for systems based on traditional forms of agriculture as the basis for another, much needed, 'green revolution'.

Do limitations in land rights transferability influence mobility rates in Ethiopia

Abstract: The migration of household members is potentially an attractive pathway out of poverty for many rural households in developing countries. Such households face the challenge of maintaining or improving their livelihoods in the presence of capital market imperfections, vulnerability to climate and macroeconomic shocks, and inaccessibility to credit. For many such households, labor is their main productive asset. Access to opportunities in distant labor markets through migration can increase the earning potential of members of such households (Harris and Todaro 1970). Furthermore, if migration takes place as part of a household decision making strategy, it can help the source household reduce income risks (Stark 1991, Azam and Gubert 2006), at the very least, and potentially improve the well being of the entire household (de Brauw and Harigaya 2007). From the former perspective, households can diversify income risk preemptively by allocating labor spatially to areas where risks to income are not correlated with rural income shocks (Rosenzweig and Stark 1989).