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Ahram Online (Egypt) published an article on how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the global economy and labor markets.  According to an IFPRI report, “Covid-19 could reduce national GDP by between 0.7 and 0.8 percent (LE36 to LE41 billion) for each month that the global crisis continues. Similarly, household consumption and expenditure are estimated to decline on […]

Outlook India published an article stating that today, over 800 million people face chronic undernourishment and over 100 million people are in need of life-saving food assistance. Former IFPRI director general, Shenggen Fan, said “COVID-19 is a health crisis. But it could also lead to a food security crisis if proper measures are not taken.” With more than 1.2 […]

Approaches crucial to address the climate crisis.

COVID-19’s impacts on our global food system have affected the food security and nutritional wellbeing of millions of people worldwide, with market closures, supply disruptions, and income and employment losses. Understanding the extent and nature of these impacts will be critical to building resilience to future shocks. At this seminar, researchers from the CGIAR COVID-19 Hub […]

Making important connections between agriculture, health, and nutrition.

Cooperation can help Latin America and the Caribbean confront significant challenges. 

Cooperation can help Latin America and the Caribbean confront significant challenges. 

Some reasons for optimism on food system innovation.

LSE Blog published a blog post about the new Academic Collaboration research project, ‘Can Social Protection Empower Women? Patriarchy, Economic Agency and Redistribution Policies in Egypt’ which is primarily a methodological endeavor. Context is key to social knowledge, yet theories and methods are often summoned from location to location, from one time to another, and used to […]

Lailajs (Nigeria) published a blog post on intimate partner violence in Nigeria. The author wonders why the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) Act has not been passed in every state in Nigeria. The author uses research from IFPRI on IPV in Bangladesh to demonstrate how IPV can be controlled and lowered. 

This Day (Nigeria) published an article that discussed the adverse effects of COVID-19 on businesses. The biggest risk to businesses post-COVID was a failure to meet revenue expectations, among others. A report from IFPRI showed that during the lockdown periods, Nigeria’s GDP dropped by 34.1 percent, amounting to $16 billion. 

Blueprint (Nigeria) published an article stating that the Covid-19 pandemic is certainly a global challenge that negatively affects productivity and retards economic growth. This is in addition to the growing fatality, which the world counts every day. In Nigeria, the situation is worst. Our system is so defective and allows some people to take advantage of every […]

E15.cz (Czechoslovakia) published an article on China’s recent growth while other nations are experiencing loss during the COVID-19 crisis. The growth of the Asian power was driven mainly by government investment in infrastructure and efforts to encourage industry. The corona crisis mainly affected around 300 million workers migrating from rural to urban areas. The measures have paralyzed […]

The Nation (Malawi) published an article stating that the Ministry of Trade says it plans to lift the maize export ban to allow traders to sell the staple grain to neighboring countries. IFPRI found that on average, maize price is at K205 per kilogramme (kg), Mhango said one kg is being sold at K160 as the highest retail price […]

Times Malawi published an article that discussed the January Monthly Maize Market Report from IFPRI-Malawi. The report showed that Prices of maize, Malawi’s staple commodity, went down by an average of 4 percent during the last weeks of January, defying lean season odds where, traditionally, they skyrocket due to scarcity. In a separate interview, Farmers Union of Malawi President Fryton Njolomole said the […]

Reliefweb published key highlights regarding Malawi’s response and status of the agriculture sector: 1) In the month of December 2020, the proportion of households relying on food purchase as the main source of food increased; 2) Nearly 20.0 percent of the households that owned livestock reported some suspected livestock diseases slightly down; 3) Nearly 2.3 percent of the […]

Deutsche Welle published an article on the latest news in Myanmar. The protests have not yet escalated, but the situation in Myanmar is extremely tense. The Tatmadaw, as the military is called in Myanmar, has so far mainly disrupted communication in order to make it difficult to organize protests. The pandemic has already caused serious damage to […]

Analyzing impacts of a program in Monrovia, Liberia.

“Innovations do not diffuse independently of enabling market, regulatory, and sociocultural environments. Scaling promising technological advances requires sociotechnical innovation bundles of context-dependent, customized combinations of mutually reinforcing innovations.” IFPRI is pleased to host a conversation with Professor Christopher Barrett and other experts on what is required to bring about healthy, equitable, resilient, and sustainable (HERS) […]

Nigeria Communications Week published an article stating that a report from Nigeria’s Statistics Bureau showed that the economy contracted by 6.1% year on year by Quarter 2 of 2020 alone. This decline is Nigeria’s steepest recorded in the past decade. In addition, a report from IFPRI, Coronavirus: Lockdowns across Africa creating major economic loss showed that during the lockdown […]