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Agri-pulse published an article on how either candidate, Donald Trump or Joseph Biden would conduct trade policies. Trump claims successes while Biden claims his opponent’s policies have hurt US farmers. A Trump representative said, “President Trump is delivering on his promises to America’s farmers and agriculture community, as he has taken unprecedented steps to modernize and improve trading practices and negotiate freer, […]

Investigate Midwest published an article stating that The Trump administration on Monday began the second round of direct payments to U.S. farmers through the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program. Farmers have likely been more harmed by Trump than helped, studies found. Many critics see the payments as little more than buying votes. Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber said, “He took actions […]

Reason Online published an article on subsidies, trade wars, and negotiations.  In early 2018, President Donald Trump’s top trade adviser appeared on Fox Business Network to reassure Americans that other countries wouldn’t retaliate against new tariffs proposed by the White House. He was wrong. Retaliation from several countries, but especially from China, caused exports of American agricultural goods to plummet in […]

The Times (Malawi) published an article on the MOU signing between the Agriculture Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) and the Farmers Union of Malawi (Fum) aimed at ensuring that farmers have access to structured and profitable markets. Signers cite an IFPRI study indicating that more than 76 percent of maize farmers and 90 percent of soybean farmers have sold their produce at a price […]

Smart Farmer Kenya published an article on the potential of boosting Kenyan farmer’s income by exporting avocados to high-value European Markets. Kenya is the third-largest producer of avocados, with about 70 percent of the produce coming from small-scale farmers. Research Fellow Mulubrhan Amare states, “International agricultural markets offer a higher price, and also demand higher quality than the local market. […]

Relief Web published a summary of the recent Myanmar surveys. The IFPRI surveys provide evidence that Myanmar is one of the few developing countries that the World Bank (2020) forecasts will not go into recession in 2020 – a very modest expansion of just 0.87 percent is forecast. A Social Accounting Matrix multiplier analysis by IFPRI projected a 0.50 percent expansion under a […]

Digital Journal republished a press release from Hewlett Packard announcing a partnership with the CGIAR. Researchers need to generate a timely, high-frequency picture of what is happening in “food basket” locations – or areas of significant food production – around the world. A complete picture often requires data from multiple sources including crop performance, weather records, economic activity, […]

Tribune (India) published an article on the new set of reforms that are encouraging corporatization, with big business moving into agriculture, storage, and marketing. As the experience of US/Europe shows, when unregulated markets become dominant, small farmers are the first to be pushed out of agriculture. IFPRI-South Asia Region states ‘move up or move out’. For several decades, mainline economists […]

Sohu.com published an article on about new research on stunting in higher altitudes. According to Senior Research Fellow Kalle Hirvonen, “More than 800 million people live at altitudes of 1,500 meters or higher, and two-thirds of them live in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. These two regions have most of the stunted children in the world, so understand that altitude […]

Council on Foreign Relations published an article describing how global food insecurity has surged amid the coronavirus pandemic, threatening to worsen humanitarian crises and spur further mass migration. The article looked at various regions throughout the world and what challenges they might face. Even if economies recover in 2021, experts say severe food insecurity will persist, pressing […]

China has rapidly transformed itself into a modern, urban, technologically savvy economic powerhouse, and is now the world’s second-largest economy. But low levels of basic education pose a challenge for the future. Authors Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell draw on extensive surveys on the ground to examine how low education levels among China’s large rural […]

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A strategy for agricultural trade.

As entrepreneurs, young people can play a major role in the transformation of agriculture. In developing countries, too few of them currently get the chance. But numerous governments are now creating entrepreneurial agribusiness opportunities through new programs and policies. The private sector, investors and non-profit organizations are also closely involved. Big questions remain to be […]

A study provides insights into gender differences and welfare benefits in a wide array of enterprises.

IFPRI’s Egypt Strategy Support Program (Egypt SSP) is organizing a seminar on “COVID-19 and social protection: From effective crisis protection to self-reliance.” The economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are increasing poverty around the world. As one of the key immediate policy responses to cushion the negative impacts of COVID-19 on the most vulnerable, many […]

Enquête (Senegal) published an article stating that governments and decisionmakers are committed to giving priority to the processes of development and implementation of land policy in our countries and to ensure that land laws allow equitable access to land and land resources for all land users, including young people and vulnerable groups. One project, on the monitoring and evaluation of […]

CSIS published an op-ed by Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber on the WTO. Global agricultural trade has seen tremendous growth since the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995. Since 1995, global agricultural exports have more than tripled in value and more than doubled in volume, exceeding $1.8 trillion in 2018. Through the leadership of the United States […]

IDFA (International Dairy Foods Association) published its first podcast on focus on how the COVID-19 pandemic has helped stir up unprecedented volatility, while exposing government’s invisible hand (or perhaps just it’s thumb, resting on the scales of the market) during the crisis. In the podcast Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber breaks down the federal government’s intervention in food and […]

El Intransigente (Argentina) published an article stating that the pandemic is helping to usher in a new era of food-production forecasts that rely more on satellite data and artificial intelligence and less on information gathered by people. Rather than sending people to visit things, the market is looking for remote sensing. Still, there are shortcomings in some satellite […]