Spanish translation of commentary from the March 2008 IFPRI Forum. Link is to PDF file, size 73K.

Spanish translation of commentary from the March 2008 IFPRI Forum. Link is to PDF file, size 73K.

IFPRI proposes a new global institutional arrangement that would consist of a minimum physical grain reserve for humanitarian assistance and a virtual reserve and intervention mechanism to calm markets under speculative situations, backed up by a financial fund.

IFPRI proposes a new global institutional arrangement that would consist of a minimum physical grain reserve for humanitarian assistance and a virtual reserve and intervention mechanism to calm markets under speculative situations, backed up by a financial fund.

Spanish translation of IFPRI Policy Brief on proposed policy actions to address the current food and agriculture crisis. Link is to PDF file, size 350K.

IFPRI Documento de Discusión por Frank Hartwich, Luis Ampuero, Tito Arispe, Vicente Eguez,Jaime Mendoza, y Nancy Alexaki

Summary and presentations from recent IFPRI/IFAD/World Bank Seminar. Presenters: Cheryl Morden, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Harold Alderman, World Bank; Agnes Quisumbing, IFPRI; Michael Usnick, World Food Programme (WFP).

Estimates of the global incremental public investment required to meet first Millennium Development Goal (MDG1) of halving the proportion of poor and hungry people by 2015.

IFPRI/FAO report by Marc J. Cohen, Cristina Tirado, Noora-Lisa Aberman, and Brian Thompson.

A team from CIRAD recently identified the genes involved in the variability of carotenoid contents in various citrus species. These results are to be used to optimize citrus fruit carotenoid content and thus their nutritional and organoleptic properties.