Blogs
Models as assets for food security: The impacts of IFPRI’s IMPACT, RIAPA, and SPAM models
Essential tools for shaping policies and decisions.
Global fertilizer trade 2021-2023: What happened after war-related price spikes
Impacts of shifting market flows.
Events
What’s on the Menu? Collecting high-quality data to inform school menu decision-making
The double burden of malnutrition (DBM) – the coexistence of undernutrition and overweight/obesity – poses a critical global health challenge, particularly for children and adolescents. School meal programs offer an opportunity to address the DBM by providing nutritious meals that support growth, development, and lifelong health. However, limited school meal quality data hinders effective, nutritionally-tailored […]
The EU Deforestation Regulation: Policy Implications and Research Frontiers
In June 2023, the European Union (EU) adopted its Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products (EUDR)—a landmark policy designed to reduce global deforestation and forest degradation driven by EU consumption. Under the regulation, key commodities with the biggest impacts on deforestation—soy, cattle, palm oil, cocoa, coffee, wood, and natural rubber—cannot be placed on the EU market or […]
EAT Stockholm Food Forum 2025
The Stockholm Food Forum, convened by EAT, is an invitation only event open to individuals and actors from across food systems, including representatives of Science, Policy, Business and Civil Society. The Theme of this year’s forum is “Engage, Act, Transform” asking the food system community to engage with the knowledge carried by the Commission and […]
News
What’s driving the farmer protests sweeping Europe? (CNN)
Senior research fellow Danielle Resnick was interviewed by CNN on the reasons behind farmers’ protests throughout Europe. Resnick says, “These protests reflect some complex political economy dynamics, especially as European governments are trying to navigate the fiscal and climate crisis. Farmers have a lot of grievances, but one that they noted was their own returns on investment has really shifted over […]
US signals a turn to the green on trade and asks world to follow (Agri-Pulse)
Agri-pulse published an article on how the U.S. was one of nine countries critical of the European Union last year when it unveiled a plan to tax imports based on their carbon footprint, but that was under the Trump administration. Now the Biden administration is signaling a stronger kinship to the EU’s push to reduce greenhouse gas […]
Don’t believe the hype: Wealth taxes are nothing new (Foreign Policy)
Foreign Policy published an article stating that this year, figures from one-time U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to U.K. Shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds have called for the exploration of a wealth tax, making it one of the most popular and seemingly new policy ideas on both sides of the Atlantic. If there were a universal levy of, say, 2 percent […]