Nigeria's Vanguard covered the 2017 Global Food Policy Report launch event in Abuja. The article focused on the event's central theme of food insecurity in a country experiencing rapid urbanization and continuing malnutrition.

Paul Dorosh, Division Director of IFPRI’s Development Strategy and Governance Division, authored a piece in Media Planet's Impacting Our Future. His article analyzed how countries vulnerable to famine and chronic hunger can learn from the successes of Bangladesh and Ethiopia is preventing famine.

With the UN declaring some three million people in East Africa on the verge of famine, Voice of America's "Africa 54" spoke with Senior Research Fellow Ephraim Nkonya about how African nations can avoid such acute food crises.