Joachim von braun , the head of the international food policy research institute ( ifpri ) , a washington-based research group financed by governments , says international action should focus on five things . The rome summit made progress on a couple of them .
In total , says the international food policy research institute ( ifpri ) , a think-tank in washington , dc , between 15m and 20m hectares of farmland in poor countries have been subject to transactions or talks involving foreigners since 2006 .
The washington-based international food policy research institute , or ifpri , said last december that high prices are unlikely to fall soon , partly because world food stocks are being squeezed by soaring demand .
Ifpri and others have urged countries to calm the wildest price fluctuations ( and hence provide a measure of reassurance to importers ) by setting up a system of international or regional grain reserves or by providing emergency financing to be drawn upon if prices spike .
John hoddinott of ifpri says the lesson of previous failures is that you have to select your targets : focus on the main deficiencies and on those for whom you can do most good , especially infants .
To take account of the differences ifpri fed both forecasts into its own computer , which describes how every agricultural region and , in some places , practically every farm , responds to changes in temperature and rainfall .
Another new report , this one from ifpri , looks at how food policy is changing in response to higher food prices and the nutritional problems associated with them .
When the international food policy research institute ( ifpri ) tried to work out the impacts of climate change on the main cereal crops , almost all its results suggested that yields in 2050 are likely to be lower than they were in 2000 , sometimes much lower .