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Sunday Standard (Botswana) published an article on how Botswana policymakers will look to two major conferences on climate change to help transform Botswana. A report prepared by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) entitled: 2021 Global Food Policy Report: Beyond the Pandemic Transforming Food Systems after COVID-19 states that the pandemic and associated policy responses “exposed […]

IFA Magazine reported that the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are now in real jeopardy of not meeting their 2030 deadline thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to Sarvjeev S. Sidhu CFA, Head of Emerging Markets Strategy at Aegon Asset Management. According to IFPRI, “persons without social protection were particularly vulnerable to Covid-19. An additional 150 million people are […]

Smart Farmer published an article on IFPRI research that finds exporting avocados to high-value European markets can boost the income of Kenya’s smallholder farmers by 39 percent, a new report says. Research Fellow and lead author of the report, Mulubrhan Amare states that “International agricultural markets offer a higher price and also demand higher quality than the local market. Producing for […]

IPS published an op-ed by Jemimah Njuki, head of the Africa Region, and Elizabeth Nsimadala. The op-ed wrote that they believe the Food Systems Summit could provide a forum for a reset that seeks to find common ground for the increasingly fractious debate over food production in Africa. Most Africans—including up to 90% of people living in rural communities—still […]

Boom Live (Indian) published an article stating that the veto comes months after the National Family Health Survey reported an alarming drop in the nutrition levels of children.  The government has dropped the breakfast at school scheme and the extension of mid-day meal schemes despite the National Education Policy’s findings that children are unable to learn optimally when they […]

Paepard reported on World Water Week and summarized the discussion on “Irrigation and socio-environmental resilience: Finding confluence between strategy and disaster” co-sponsored by Feed the Future/USAID and IFPRI. The session presented new knowledge and tools that contribute to innovative small-scale irrigation approaches that can be developed without increasing risk to water and other natural resources 

Nature published an op-ed by former director general, Joachim von Braun, Kaosar Afsana, Louise O. Fresco, and Mohamed Hassan on how the United Nations should harness science and technology to improve nutrition and safeguard the environment. In September, the United Nations secretary-general, António Guterres, will convene a Food Systems Summit. This is only the sixth UN summit on food since […]

SEP 14, 2021 – 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM EDT. This webinar will present and discuss finding of a new paper on myths about the feminization of agriculture. 

SEP 14, 2021 – 08:00 AM to 11:00 AM EDT. IFPRI is participating in Tropentag 2021. 

Evidence from Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda, and India and Nepal.

After lockdowns are lifted, reluctance to seek assistance lingers.

The Walmart Foundation aims to provide convenient access to affordable food around the world. It works to provide economic opportunity and promote sustainable practices by partnering with research organizations as well as community organizers.

Getting follow-through on key global commitments.

Modeling shows emergency safety net programs boost GDP during pandemic.

Ground Views (Sri Lanka) published an article that references an IFPRI survey that found that farmers faced food insecurity as a result of the measures that had been put into place to curb the spread of Covid-19. The report said that “High levels of food insecurity and disruptions across domains such as income, asset ownership, and agriculture could have short- […]

Ngoho News reported on a wide-reaching address by Minister Thoko Didiza who spoke on women’s empowerment, land reform, agricultural research among other topics. She mentioned IFPRI research that found that “Extensive empirical evidence demonstrates that agricultural research and development investments have greatly contributed to economic growth, agricultural development, and poverty reduction in developing regions over the past five decades.” […]

Food News- Latam.com published a summary of the FAO online conference. It is no longer just a question of the degree of access to food, but of the way it is produced, processed, transported, traded, and consumed, and its planetary effects. All this ends up composing a new notion of food security in the XXI century. High-level experts […]

Ag Health published a blog post on how the world’s largest publicly-funded agricultural research partnership, CGIAR, is currently developing a series of initiatives to implement its 2030 research and innovation strategy that was launched in early 2021. The development of the One Health initiative is being led by a team of scientists from four CGIAR research […]

Islamabad Post published an article on how stakeholders on Tuesday urged the federal government to take notice of Pakistan Horticulture Development Export Company’s (PHDEC) failure to play its due role in enhancing this sector’s exports and decide if it’s worth it. Talking to media, Vice President of Pakistan Businesses Forum and former FPCCI Chief on Agriculture, Ch Ahmad Jawad said […]