Publications
Promoting Millets in the Public Distribution System
October 30, 2023
This special policy brief provides cost-saving estimates associated with the potential introduction of millets into India’s Public Distribution System (PDS), which provides subsidized food to more than 800 million people. This analysis provides policymakers and other stakeholders with valuable information that can be used to...
Hybrid Mustard and Biotechnology: Pathways for Doubling Farmers’ Incomes and Nutritional Security
Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. 58, Issue No. 43, 28 October 2023
Making Meat and Milk from Plants: A Review of Plant-Based Food for Human and Planetary Health
World Development, Volume 170, October 2023
Alcohol Ban and Crime: The ABC’s of the Bihar Prohibition
Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 17, No. 4, 2024
Can We Agree on a Food Loss and Waste Definition? An Assessment of Definitional Elements for a Globally Applicable Framework
February 16, 2023
by Jocelyn Boiteau, Prabhu Pingali
Global Food Security, Vol. 37, June 2023
Are the Lessons from the Green Revolution Relevant for Agricultural Growth and Food Security in the Twenty-First Century?
January 3, 2023
by Prabhu Pingali
In Jonna P. Estudillo, Yoko Kijima, and Tetsushi Tenobe (Eds.), Agricultural Development in Asia and Africa: Essays in Honor of Keijiro Otsuka, Springer 2023
Aggregation Models and Small Farm Commercialization: An Annotated Bibliography of Relevant Literature
November 11, 2022
Smallholder aggregation models around the globe have the potential to contribute significantly to agricultural growth and productivity by facilitating improved access to credit, inputs, markets, and information. Aggregation models, including farmer producer organizations (FPOs) and cooperatives, are institutional arrangements by which small and marginal farmers,...
Revealing the Hidden Production Costs of India’s Public Distribution System
November 3, 2022
This policy brief presents preliminary estimates of the environmental and health-related costs associated with the production of food grain for India’s Public Distribution System (PDS), a program that provides subsidized food to more than 800 million Indians. This new analysis provides government policymakers, advocates, and...
Improving In-Kind Food-Based Safety Nets: The Case of India’s Public Distribution System
October 28, 2022
by Raghav Puri
In Gentilini, Ugo (Ed.), Social Protection, Food Security and Nutrition: An Update of Concepts, Evidence and Select Practices in South Asia and Beyond, World Bank, 2022