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Industry Update, in a story about UN efforts to improve Russian fertilizer exports, quotes IFPRI’s senior research fellow Joseph Glauber who said that Russian exports of products such as urea and potash have declined, but not as much as ammonia. Originally published on AgriPulse.

The Oxford Student published an article on the importance of COP27’s agreements around climate finance, especially pertaining to the African continent. The article cites IFPRI’s publication by Ringler et. al (2010) which predicted that the agricultural effects of climate change would lead to “higher food prices and therefore lower affordability of food, reduced calorie availability, and growing childhood malnutrition […]

Philippine News Agency, in a news-post about farmers adaptation and mitigation training, quotes IFPRI’s report which states that global climate change poses significant risks to those whose livelihood depends directly on agriculture. “Agriculture is extremely vulnerable to climate change. Higher temperatures eventually reduce yields of desirable crops while encouraging weed and pest proliferation. Changes in […]

The Ukraine-Russian war is taking place solely in Ukraine, but the effects of the conflict are global writes The Epoch Times. The story reports that sanctions and counter-sanctions have increased energy prices, and fears of a food shortage have amplified as Ukraine and Russia are major grain exporters. It isn’t just the war driving up […]

Associated Press Archive posted a video interview with Senior research fellow Joseph Glauber of the International Food Policy Research Institute. Glauber spoke about Russia’s suspension of its participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative. He said “that re-opening the three ports is key because traditionally those ports had accounted for about 50 percent of exports […]

CGTN America (China) produced a video interview with International Food Policy Research Institute’s Joseph Glauber, a senior research fellow, to discuss farmers’ economic needs and how they will vote. “Farmers actually weathered the pandemic pretty well. Prices started to rise in 2021, and the government did provide money to farmers to help augment some of […]

One Acre Fund reports that agriculture has always been deeply dependent on the weather, with farmers needing a steady mixture of sun, warmth, and rains in order to reliably produce the food that all of humanity depends on for survival. Now, these once predictable growing cycles are at risk from climate change, and smallholders are […]

Krishak Jagat (India) re-published a CGIAR/IFPRI blog on the recent World Food Price Borlaug Dialogue where Johan Swinnen, CGIAR Managing Director, Systems Transformation, and Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) presented CGIAR work, research, and future plans and activities. The discussion focused on both rapid responses to the food crisis and […]

Hindustan, in this article, examined how ongoing and varied changes in climate will affect future food security in India. This year, changes in crop production patterns due to weather changes like an unusual heatwave in the spring ruined wheat crops and trimmed yields. These changes in climate affect regional and national politics, global geopolitics, and […]

Successful Farming published an analysis of the Black Sea Grain Initiative and its suspension by Russia. The article includes written comments by IFPRI senior research fellows Joseph Glauber and David Laborde. The researchers state that Ukrainian farmers and food-importing nations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)will feel the pain of the Russian interruption […]

The World (International Public Radio) produced a radio interview with Joseph Glauber, a senior research fellow at IFPRI. Glauber discusses how Ukraine’s farmers have taken a major hit from the war. In the first few months of the war, we saw increases. “Since the grain initiative agreement started, prices have been pretty flat essentially prewar […]

Financial Times in a report examines what happens when a near crisis is averted. Russia and Ukraine together make up around a third of global wheat exports, and many low and middle-income countries, particularly in the Middle East and Africa, are dependent on grain imports. Ukraine and allied governments accused Russia of threatening global famine […]

In a video interview with Bloomberg’s Daybreak Asia, IFPRI’s senior research fellow Joseph Glauber discusses the impacts of the Ukraine War, the Black Sea Grain Agreement, and climate change on global food prices. “The world needs more wheat and other commodities. Unfortunately, because markets are so tight, and because of all the recent climatic events, […]

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The Exchange (Africa) refers to the IFPRI book on Food security, farming, and climate change to 2050 in an article about climate change in Africa, and its role in the livelihoods of more than 100 million people living in severe poverty on the continent.    “According to the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), climate […]

Hindustan Times, in an article on manifestations of climate change in India, quotes the IFPRI 2022 Global Food Policy Report, saying that climate change may “force many Indians into famine by 2030 owing to a reduction in agricultural productivity” and cause “ripple effects across the food supply chain.”  Republished in MSN and Press Reader 

Krishak Jagat (India) re-published a CGIAR/IFPRI blog on the recent World Food Price Borlaug Dialogue where Johan Swinnen, CGIAR Managing Director, Systems Transformation, and Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) presented CGIAR work, research, and future plans and activities. The discussion focused on both rapid responses to the food crisis and […]