New Issue Brief based on the 2008 book, "Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty: Lessons from Developing Countries" edited by Shenggen Fan.

One family's successful struggle from financial ruin to a better life.

Lead article on Speculation and World Food Markets. Interviews with Lamon Rutten Joint Managing Director, Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. (MCX) and Carl Hausmann, President and CEO, Bunge North America. Commentary on Latin America and rural development.

IFPRI Discussion Paper by Daniela Horna, Melinda Smale, Ramatu Al-Hassan, Jose Falck-Zepeda, and Samuel E. Timpo

IFPRI Discussion Paper by F.S. Wouterse

2008/07 - Amadou Allahoury Diallo (NEPAD)

Workshop organized by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), hronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC), and Data Analysis and Technical Assistance Ltd. (DATA), 19 August 2008, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

11 August 2008 - A strain of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza previously not recorded in sub-Saharan Africa has been detected in Nigeria for the first time. Nigeria has recently reported two new bird flu outbreaks in the states of Katsina and Kano.

New Issue Brief based on the 2007 book, "The Dragon and the Elephant
Learning from Agricultural and Rural Reforms in China and India" edited by Ashok Gulati and Shenggen Fan.

New Issue Brief based on the 2008 book, "From Parastatals to Private Trade: Lessons from Asian Agriculture" edited by Shahidur Rashid, Ashok Gulati, and Ralph Cummings Jr.