Climate change is a truly global threat, but its impacts differ around the world. Regions and countries urgently need to identify and implement policy responses that reflect local needs and opportunities.
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Food systems everywhere are facing major new challenges.
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Food value chains: Increasing productivity, sustainability, and resilience to climate change
Climate change will drive responses and adaptations throughout agrifood systems. Changes in growing conditions for many crops will alter agricultural production patterns.
Confronting climate change requires action at all levels, from the individual to the global.
The death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic reached near 6 million by early February 2022, two years into the pandemic.
Two years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, food value chains have undergone some remarkable adjustments, evolving to meet rapidly changing conditions.
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COVID-19 and food inflation scares
Rising food prices during 2021 caused concern worldwide.
Following the initial COVID-19 outbreak in Hubei Province in late 2019, starting in late January 2020 the Chinese government imposed draconian lockdown measures across the country to control the spread of the disease (Fang, Wang, and Yang 2020).
The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized a multitude of development challenges and opportunities, some of which are new and some ongoing.
As COVID-19 began spreading globally in early 2020, it quickly went beyond major cities to affect rural areas in much of the world.
In the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers at IFPRI and elsewhere worked quickly with their partners in government, the private sector, and survey firms to provide evidence on the immediate impacts of the COVID-19 health crisis
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, CGIAR pivoted its research planning to better support countries as they responded to the crisis.
As we mark the second anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health, economic, and social disruptions associated with this global crisis continue to evolve.
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Impacts of the COVID-19-driven rise in global rice prices on consumers in Papua New Guinea
During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, several major rice exporting countries, grappling with rising economic uncertainties, suspended rice exports to ensure adequate domestic supply.
In April 2020, Tanzania’s prime minister made a simple plea: “Tanzanians should maintain trust in the government.
In early 2020, Guatemala reacted swiftly to the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic.
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COVID-19 impacts on food systems, poverty, and diets: Lessons learned from country-level analyses
With the outbreak of COVID-19, governments attempted to contain the spread of the virus by limiting the movement and interaction of people through a variety of measures, including restrictions on domestic and international travel, social distancin
In a pair of commentaries published in The Lancet in August 2020, we and our colleagues in the Standing Together for Nutrition Consortium (STfN) and the leaders of four UN agencies called for immediate action to address the escalating problems of
COVID-19-related trade disruptions hit several sectors in Myanmar as early as January 2020, but it was the appearance of the country’s first cases in March 2020 and the subsequent lockdown in April that really hurt the economy.