COVID-19: Effects on food trade - Is global food security at risk? (Bonn Sustainability Portal)
Bonn Sustainability Portal reported on the fight against coronavirus and how it affects global food supply?
Bonn Sustainability Portal reported on the fight against coronavirus and how it affects global food supply?
Agrilinks reported on the next steps after Covid-19.
Korean Economic Magazine published an article on structural change and economic growth.
Agri-pulse published a comment by Sylvan Roy on the jointly released by BIFAD, APLU, and IFPRI report, How the United Stat
FeedStuffs (USA), in an article, discussed the recently released report, How the United States benefits from agricultural and food security investments in developing countries.
China Science Daily’s article on ending hunger addressed a variety of challenges. Director General Shenggen Fan stated the causes of the increase in hunger are complex, but regional conflicts and climate change are the main drivers, and multiple burdens of malnutrition play large roles as well.
The Dhaka Tribune reported on IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan’s statement ahead of the UN Climate Action Summit.
Africa Business Insight reported on a new book, titled Ghana’s Economic and Agricultural Transformation: Past Performance and Future Prospects,
Shenggen Fan, IFPRI director general was interviewed in a video with CNBC Africa. Fan explained the importance of revitalizing rural areas and ways to do it, to achieve SDGs.
The 2019 Global Food Policy Report was covered in an article in Rwanda's The New Times. Rwanda’s Prime Minister, Edouard Ngirente, said that the report details evidenced-based facts, the urgency of rural revitalization in order to address the crisis of food insecurity in rural ar
The Ethiopian News Agency reported on the 2019 Global Food Policy Report launch in Addis Ababa.
The Straits Times wrote a piece about the 2018 Global Nutrition Report, in which it detailed the changes in childhood stunting and anemia in Cambodia, Indonesia, Vietnam, India, and other developing countries in South Asia. Director General Shenggen Fan was quoted i
With hunger and obesity on the rise, a global forum aims to catalyze urgent action to end all forms of undernutrition by 2030.
Thomson Reuters Foundation News published an op-ed by IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan.
The Washington Post published an article framing food consumption through the lens of global production growth and climate change. The article included research from Senior Research Fellow Keith W
Statement by Shenggen Fan
Director General, IFPRI
(as prepared)
G20 Agriculture Ministers Meeting, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Washington, DC – The rise of trade protectionism and antiglobalism around the world pose a considerable threat to global food security and nutrition. Two new reports launched in Beijing today provided critical analyses on the impact of trade disputes and protectionism on US and Chinese economies.
May 30, 2018, Washington, D.C.: Economic recovery in Russia supported by the significant upturns in energy and metal prices is positively affecting the prospects for growth, household welfare, and food security in Eurasia, according to the 2018 Global Food Policy Report released by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) at a conference in Moscow.
Ghana's My Joy published an article on the 2018 Global Food Policy Report, which focussed on the impacts of anti-globalism on food security, nutrition and global Sustainable Development Goals.