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Qianzhan published a brief announcement about the new Science magazine article COVID-19 risks to global food security by IFPRI researchers David Laborde, Will Martin, Johan Swinnen, and Rob Vos. This summary quotes Director General Johan Swinnen who said, “The most important impact of the epidemic on food security is that the decline in income it causes puts food supplies at risk. This is especially true for extremely […]

Financial Times published an article on how desert countries with little arable land and water are dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on food supply. Saudi Arabia is looking again to increase its wheat production with a target of doubling its output, equivalent to 45 percent of the kingdom’s needs, next year. Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber states, […]

The United States Senate Committee on Finance posted the video of the trade hearing which featured Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber. Glauber’s testimony can be heard beginning at 41:44. To read his full testimony please see his statement, The current state of agricultural trade and the World Trade Organization. 

Reuters Business News published an article writing that the lack of farmworkers due to the COVID-19 lockdowns and the exit of immigrants forced farmers to change the way they work their farms, such as irrigating the field just enough to moisten the soil and leased a drilling machine to directly sow seeds.  Mechanization is predicted to be the […]

Focusing on the multiple, overlapping health impacts of the double burden of malnutrition.

COVID E-Book; Is Catch-up Growth Possible?; and more

The webinar on challenges for livelihoods and food security during the COVID-19 pandemic presents results of a phone survey conducted in early June 2020 of more than 1,100 rural households who are beneficiaries of the fourth phase of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP4) and who also participate in the USAID-funded Strengthening PSNP4 Institutions and […]

Marie Ruel, directora de la División de Pobreza, Salud y Nutrición del IFPRI, participa en el seminario web “Impacto del COVID-19 en la mala nutrición infantil”. Los oradores especialistas discutirán las estimaciones a nivel global sobre desnutrición y muertes causadas por covid-19 y qué debemos hacer al respecto, de acuerdo a las recomendaciones de UNICEF […]

Innovations help supply chains adapt to disruptions.

Developing a better banking and credit system for smallholders.

Seeking to capture and support experiential learning on addressing undernutrition, Stories of Change uses case studies to examine drivers and pathways of change in countries that have achieved significant success in driving down rates of child stunting.

China's experience provides a wake-up call for the global food system. 

Africa Business Communities republished a blog post by Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division Director Rob Vos and Communications Intern Khiem Nguyen. The blog discussed rapid urbanization and income growth are shifting diets from inexpensive cereals to high-value fruits and vegetables. Trends show that demand changes will provide opportunities for agricultural development and reducing rural poverty. (See Chapter 2 of IFPRI’s 2020 Global Food […]

Breitbart reported on the journal article, Economic and Food Supply Chain Disruptions Endanger Global Food Security in “Science.” The article’s authors/researchers David Laborde, Will Martin, Johan Swinnen, and Rob Vos detailed the many ways the global lockdowns necessitated by uncontrolled COVID-19 outbreaks have disrupted the labor market, threatening the food supply chain and the stability of agricultural and food markets. pandemic is undermining […]

Before It’s News published an article on the journal article, Economic and Food Supply Chain Disruptions Endanger Global Food Security in “Science.” The article’s authors/researchers David Laborde, Will Martin, Johan Swinnen, and Rob Vos write, COVID-19 has led to a global economic slowdown that is affecting all four pillars of food security – availability, access, utilization, and stability. Director General Johan Swinnen stated, “The most important impact […]

Addis Fortune published an article writing, challenges from COVID-19 and the effect on poor and fixed-income households is often unfortunately lost in the attention given to the macroeconomy. The COVID-19 pandemic is contributing to food insecurity as incomes are affected. Gashaw T. Abate et al. conducted a survey of around 600 households and found that among the households surveyed between […]

Voice of America (Ukraine) published an article stating, Economic decline, deteriorating health care, rising domestic violence – the coronavirus pandemic is multiplying a number of other important problems in the world. As the harvest season approaches, experts point to a new threat – mass famine in Africa and Asia. According to IFPRI with each percent of the global […]

Investor Indonesia published an article stating the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic has raised concerns in the community about food availability in Indonesia. Although the Covid-19 outbreak has not yet disappeared, food distribution and distribution activities must continue. Indonesian Food Technology International Institute for Life Sciences (i3L) lecturer Rayyane Mazaya Syifa said the pandemic did indeed have an impact, as predicted […]

Tribune News (Indonesia) published an article on food security and how Indonesia might deal with COVID-19’s impact on the food supply. IFPRI and other international development organizations write that the Covid-19 pandemic can lead to new food crises affecting the food security of a country, especially poor and developing countries. Also published in Suara.com, jpnn.com, kontan.co.id, Swa, and other major media outlets.   

The News Chronicle (Nigeria) published an article on the pathway to achieving food security in sub-Saharan Africa, a debate currently being revived following the effect of the rampaging COVID-19 pandemic on food security. dependency on international trade is risky as the international food commodity market is thin with fewer sellers. The 2011 Global Food Policy Report says only five countries […]