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Lessons from how food supply chains adapted to pandemic stresses.

Virutal Event: June 10, 2021- 09:00 AM to 10:30 AM EDT. This webinar will present the findings of the dynamics and impacts of migrations on gender relations in agriculture and natural resource domains. 

Protecting and sustaining a resource integral to life on earth.

Business Mirror (The Philippines) published an article stating that the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture will develop the ASEAN Guidelines for the Utilization of Digital Technologies for ASEAN Food and Agricultural Sector. One component, led by IFPRI, will provide macro data analysis on the estimation of the overall impact of Covid-19 on agricultural production […]

The Print published an op-ed by Senior research fellow Kalle Hirvonen and his co-authors that states while immunization saves millions of lives each year, progress in vaccine coverage remains highly uneven, both between and within countries. Despite considerable progress over the past two decades, the situation is particularly worrying in Africa. Nearly half of the world’s unvaccinated and under-vaccinated children […]

India Spend published an article asking the question, where are nutrition programs failing and why? To accurately understand this and for ideas on how to efficiently target the crisis of malnutrition among Indian children, it is necessary to collect and use data from villages. Senior research fellow Purnima Menon said, “The challenge that India often faces is the delivery […]

Voice of America published an article on how the impacts of COVID-19 and the military coup in Myanmar have created an economic meltdown. Over the past few months, prices for many other domestically grown and consumed crops have fallen faster. Wholesale prices for potatoes, onions, beans, and other staples were down 22 to 48 percent in April […]

The need for a greater focus on equity, inclusion, and justice in ecosystem management.

The partnership between IFPRI and BIMSTEC will focus on regional trade, poverty and food security, and climate change

Experiences and strategies that can build food systems resilience to prevent food crises and conflict.

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Charting a path toward rural economic transformation.

IM4Change (Inclusive Media for Change) published an article on the 2021 Global Food Policy Report. The article gives a full analysis and review of the Report and how it relates to India. The report cites a survey conducted in rural India during April last year that found that in roughly half of the households, women were spending more […]

Efe Agro (Spain) published an article that stated, the agri-food systems of America are in a profound transition towards more sustainable models despite the difficulties caused by the covid-19 pandemic. Eugenio Díaz Bonilla, urged countries to work together to transform the agri-food sectors and warned that the results of this transformation will have global implications. due to the importance of […]

Grupo Mundo Ejectuvio (Mexico) published an article on food systems and Latin America and the Caribbean. Within the framework of the 2021 Global Food Policy Report, the Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader), Víctor Villalobos Arámbula, called on the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean to design public policies of long-term to transform agri-food systems and address the vulnerability […]

Frontier Myanmar published an article stating that throughout much of the country, Myanmar’s farmers are busy preparing their fields for the monsoon rice crop – the key annual event for a sector that accounts for about half of all Myanmar’s jobs and one-third of GDP. This year, though, farmers’ faces are lined with worry over the political turmoil and […]

WRAL Techwire published an article on the study from Bayer, RTI, and IFPRI that projects global chronic hunger unless the policy is put in place to combat the negative effects that climate change could have on the availability and access to nutritious food. Study researcher and Senior Scientist, Timothy Sulser said, “Climate change exacerbates the pressures on food systems to deliver […]

Guyana Chronicle published an article stating that the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic must be heeded in order to increase the resilience of food-system actors, promote the expansion and flexibility of social protection policies, and improve access to infrastructure and markets as they are related to Latin America and the Caribbean. Valeria Piñeiro, Senior Research Coordinator, said, “This […]