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Egypt Today published an article stating that the Minister of Planning and Economic Development Hala el Saeed has said the State gives a top priority to sustainable financing and seeks to get the investment climate to cope with the green economy principles. Her remarks were made during a symposium sponsored by USAID and IFPRI.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the global economy and put pressure on food supply chains, debate has resurged about the role of trade in protecting food security. Though food supply chains have proved fairly resilient during the outbreak, many countries have faced both severe disruptions in supply and shifts in food […]

COVID-19 and other challenges to regional food security.

MW Times published an article stating that economic reforms planned by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s government, fresh from a landslide election victory, offer long-term liberalization, but are thin on immediate help for those worst hit by the pandemic. According to IFPRI, (Poverty, food insecurity, and social protection during COVID-19 in Myanmar: Combined evidence from a household telephone survey and micro-simulations), Myanmar’s poverty rate skyrocketed […]

Business World (The Philippines) published an article about a recent online meeting of experts. The impacts of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have spread across many industries and demographics. At the same time, it has brought about accelerated disruptions that are expected to benefit many in the long term. One of the issues the pandemic further stressed is food […]

Daily Hunt published an article describing the thousands of farmers from Punjab and Haryana who are protesting at Delhi borders against the recently enacted farm laws.  Former IFPRI-South Asia office director PK Joshi who has followed the protests, said, “I for one have failed to figure out why the farmers are agitating! All three bills are very sound, very good […]

NNI Asia (Japan) published an information blurb stating that the number of poor households is rapidly increasing in Myanmar, where the spread of the new coronavirus continues. According to IFPRI, (Poverty, food insecurity, and social protection during COVID-19 in Myanmar: Combined evidence from a household telephone survey and micro-simulations), poor households with daily household income of less than US $ 1.9 (about 198 yen) reached […]

Nueva Tribune (Japan) published an article stating that the number of poor households is rapidly increasing in Myanmar, where the spread of the new coronavirus continues. According to IFPRI, (Poverty, food insecurity, and social protection during COVID-19 in Myanmar: Combined evidence from a household telephone survey and micro-simulations), poor households with a daily household income of less than US$ 1.9 (about 198 yen) reached […]

Poshan Outlook (India) published an op-ed by Poverty, Heath, and Nutrition Division Director Marie Ruel and Senior Research Fellow, Jef Leroy that stated one of the key objectives of India’s Covid-19 mitigation efforts is to prevent child undernutrition now rather than to treat it later, without compromising on maternal, child health and nutrition services. What started as a health crisis has developed into a […]

How agriculture and food value chains are weathering the pandemic.

Yahoo Finance republished an article from Bloomberg (Reach 513K) stating that the U.S.-China relationship has never been stronger. Through the trade war and open hostilities at the highest political levels, pig farmers in China and crop farmers in the U.S. have become increasingly interdependent. Already America’s biggest customer of soybeans and sorghum, for this season China bought an unprecedented 11.2 […]

Democracy Now presented a video with P. Sainath, a longtime Indian journalist on various topics including farmers and legal recourse, and Indian diets along with other topics. P. Sainath mentioned findings from the IFPRI study, Affordability of nutritious diets in rural India. Sainath quoted the study saying that 76% of the rural population can’t afford a nutritious diet. 

Mel Magazine published an article on the tobacco industry in the United States. The article states Capitalism, corruption and exploitation created the broken system of ‘insurance farming’ — and the biggest loser is the American taxpayer. Year after year, then, a bundle of farmers scam the government. That’s because the system, per Joseph Glauber, a senior research fellow […]

El Watan News published an article on a policy paper issued by the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development, in cooperation with IFPRI. The paper, Alternative pathways for the recovery of the Egyptian economy and the impact on sectors, jobs, and households, assesses the impact of the gradual cancellation of precautionary measures and measures related to the Coronavirus on […]

ReliefWeb published an article providing several key highlights from Malawi’s latest survey including IFPRI research that found In October 2020, the average price of maize per kg increased by 4.3 percent from MK180/kg in September 2020 to MK187.78. The average maize prices are lower than MK193/kg reported by the IFPRI for the month of October 2020. The southern […]

The Daily Star (Bangladesh) published an article about collaborations in knowledge and data sharing in agriculture and food production and how they are necessary for multilateral trade facilitation among countries to ensure food security in South Asia. Some countries are looking forward to bilateral trade, which is a step towards multilateral trade. Restriction on the movement of products […]

Bangkok Post published an article that discussed ways in which Myanmar can learn from its western counterparts on promoting humanitarian and charitable work to support food security & battle climate change. Supply chain disruptions and panic buying are driving up food prices in Myanmar. On top of that, loss of jobs, incomes, and a decline in […]

The Hindu published an article stating that the National Nutrition Mission or the Poshan Abhiyaan — the world’s largest nutrition programme for children and mothers — must be stepped up in order to meet the targets set by the Centre to reduce stunting, wasting, and anaemia by 2022 with only a little over a year left to reach its goals. Senior Research Fellow Purnima […]

News Chronicle (Nigeria) published an article on the status of food prices in Nigeria. Nigeria is still vulnerable to increases in food prices as well as shortages that are likely to occur in the long run. This is largely because the country still depends on food imports to address gaps. Initial estimates from the IFPRI and the Central […]