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Some ways to lighten extra burdens the pandemic has imposed on women.

IFPRI warmly congratulates our colleagues at the World Food Programme for being named the recipient of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. The award is a highly-deserved honor and a testament to the important mission and much-needed work of the WFP to provide urgently needed sustenance to the most vulnerable. We at IFPRI are extremely proud […]

COVID-19 is among a number of current stresses on the country's food system and social safety net.

IFPRI is participating in the 2020 Norman E. Borlaug International Symposium.  The combined challenges of climate change and a global pandemic magnify the weaknesses in our current global food systems, causing the global food security community to confront the need to feed up to 10 billion people by 2050. Achieving equity, sustainability and improved nutrition in the food systems requires […]

impacts on ag & food policies; how it has altered the balance of power among urban & rural populations, the state & private sectors, and across government ministries?
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Relief Web published the latest results of the Malawi Monthly Maize Market Report developed by researchers at IFPRI-Malawi with the goal of providing clear and accurate information on the variation of daily maize prices in selected markets throughout Malawi. The reports are intended as a resource for those interested in maize markets in Malawi, namely producers, traders, consumers, or other agricultural stakeholders. […]

Times Malawi published an article on maize prices in Malawi. It stated that the Malawi Monthly Maize Market Report for September indicates that prices of maize, the country’s staple crop, went up by six percent that month.

Bangladesh Post published an article on how the health pandemic is affecting the economy and resulting poverty according to experts at the South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM) conference. Senior Research Fellow Xiaobo Zhang presented a paper, “COVID-19 effects on SMEs in China,” discussed the conditions, productivity, optimism, and distribution of labor in Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

World Bank Blogs published an article stating that although Malawi produced abundant maize in the past years (along with other crops), food insecurity continues to linger. In 2018, 3.3 million Malawians were food insecure, 1.8 million in 2019, and 2.6 million anticipated in 2020. Food security needs to be understood from its basic parameters of availability, access, utilization, […]

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) presents the Trade Winds virtual event with Anabel Gonzalez, Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber, and Research Fellow Emeritus Sherman Robinson. The virtual event discusses the pandemic and its containment measures placed unprecedented stress on agriculture trade and raised the specter of a global food crisis. After the initial fears, how has COVID-19 affected the food system? […]

Welt (Germany) published an article stating that “the human costs of Covid-19 are immense.” For the first time in over 20 years, the number of poor will grow again worldwide. Large portions of Asia and Africa are threatened by hunger and resulting death.  In April, IFPRI stated that 35 to 65 million people who could slide into absolute […]

Economic Times (India) published an op-ed by Senior Research Fellow Devesh Roy and J.V. Meenakshi on the MSP (Minimum Support Price) System, in place since the mid-1960s, was part of the country’s drive to reduce dependence on food imports. It was an integral part of a package that included subsidized inputs meant to incentivize farmers to adopt new technologies and […]

Deutschlandfunk published an article about world hunger. While fewer and fewer people had to go hungry for decades, their number is now increasing again. The corona pandemic and the economic crisis are also triggers. The pandemic hit Kenya and the other African countries much less than feared. At the beginning of October, the reported infections in Kenya were below […]

Business Mirror (Philippines) published an article that states the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) is set to lead the development of national road maps for key agri-based value chains where smallholders play a prominent role in five countries, including the Philippines. The five-year project “Agricultural Transformation and Market Integration in the Asean […]

Business Insight (Malaya) published an article on the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL) that is expected to accelerate agricultural growth and facilitate the structural transformation of the economy, with gross domestic product (GDP) increasing by at least 0.13 percentage points in 2025, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said. Karl Kendrick Chua, NEDA acting secretary, said the estimate is […]

Philippine Star published an article stating that The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) has urged the public to give the Rice Tariffication Law a chance to take effect in the structural transformation of the economy and contribute to the growth of the agriculture sector.  Citing a 2019 IFPRI study, NEDA said the law could boost economic growth by […]

Against the background of worldwide trade disruptions due to COVID-19, IFPRI and AKADEMIYA2063 are launching the third annual Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM), the leading comprehensive report on African agricultural trade flows and policies. The report’s authors will discuss emerging trends in African countries’ trade flows and compositions, comparative advantages globally and regionally, tariff and non-tariff […]

Agrifood Systems in Ethiopia, Conservation Agriculture Experiments; and more

A new IFPRI book explores the country's recent growth and prospects for the future.

Confronting global challenges upended by the COVID-19 pandemic.