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Founded in 1883, the American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) is one of the oldest trade organizations in the United States. Its membership consists of over 700 companies involved in seed production and distribution, plant breeding, and related industries in North America. As an authority on plant germplasm, ASTA advocates science and policy issues of industry-wide […]

AKADEMIYA2063’s overall mission is to create, across Africa and led from Rwanda, state-of-the art technical capacities to support the efforts by the Member States of the African Union to achieve the key goals of the agenda 2063 of transforming national economies to boost growth and prosperity.

ACRE Africa, the brand name of Agriculture and Climate Risk Enterprise Ltd. (ACRE), links farmers to insurance products so that they can confidently invest in their farms. As of 2017, over 1,000,000 farmers in Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda were insured through ACRE Africa products. These products varied from crop, livestock and index insurance products to […]

Virtual Event: July 7, 2021 – 07:00 AM to 08:00 AM EDT. This side event will present evidence from a new study of the value of ecosystem services from the commons in India. 

The COVID-19 pandemic and other factors driving inflation.

UN Dispatch (US) blog produced a podcast on how climate variability is causing massive numbers of people around the world to move–both across borders and within borders. The author poses a series of questions on the relationship between migration and climate. Senior Research Fellow Alan de Brauw participated as a panelist on a special episode of the Global Dispatches […]

The Times (Malawi) published an article on how traders are buying grain below K150 per kg (the government set minimum price). ADMARC recently asked the government to reduce the K150 maize farm gate price per kg in order to export its surplus maize. These developments have left the poor farmers with no option but to sell their […]

The Times (Malawi) published an article on fertilizer and extension services. At the heart of all that Malawi desires to achieve in agriculture are extension and advisory services. Extension services in Malawi are suffering badly under the weight of fertilizer subsidy largesse. One study by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) found that between 2007 and […]

Daily Star (Bangladesh) published an article stating that rice contributes to 48 percent of the total rural employment.  Two-thirds of the total caloric need of the country and is the source of half of the country’s protein intake. According to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, crops and horticulture’s share is about 10 percent of the gross domestic product, […]

Daily News (Sri Lanka) published an article about new research that is part of a special edition of Ecological Restoration titled “Restoration by Whom, for Whom,” published in June 2021. The research includes work on farmer-managed natural regeneration in Ghana, on-farm experiments and payments for ecosystem services in Kenya, a government-led tree planting initiative in Vietnam, and […]

Masress (Egypt) published an article that discussed a high-level dialogue on food security, the COVID-19 crisis, and pathways to recovery. The conference was attended by many experts including Johan Swinnen, division director. (Reach 4.8K) Also published in Zawya (Egypt), and Egypt Today.

SciTechDaily published an article on how investments in agricultural research, water management, infrastructure can avert climate-fueled growth in hunger. The model used in the study, Climate change and hunger: Estimating costs of adaption in the agrifood system links climate, crop, water, and economic models to analyze scenarios of future change in agricultural production, consumption, prices, and trade at national, regional, […]

Eureka Alert published an article on an IFPRI study that provides new insights into the costs of a range of investment scenarios for climate change adaptation, drawing from complex modeling of its ecological and human impacts. The study, Climate change and hunger:  Estimating costs of adaption in the agrifood system and its model show, according to Senior Scientist and lead […]

Finance Sina (China) published an article about findings from IFPRI in the Food Policy Report, Climate change and hunger: Estimating costs of adaption in the agrifood system, that found in order to prevent the effects of climate change from causing another 78 million people to fall into prolonged hunger by 2050, global agricultural research and development will be promoted between […]

Gizmodo (Brazil) published an article on the IFPRI study, Climate change and hunger: Estimating costs of adaption in the agrifood system, that found that investments in agricultural research, water management and infrastructure can prevent the impacts of climate change from increasing the number of people suffering from chronic hunger by 2050. Only the agricultural sector would need to receive […]

MSN published an article on China’s various types of rice and Yuan Longping, the Chinese agronomist who became a national hero by developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s. Suresh Babu, director of the Capacity Strengthening Program remains in awe of Yuan’s achievements and how he “made a worldwide impact in understanding hybridization technology in crops […]

Agro World Dergisi published an article stating that Donald Trump’s trade war with China left American farmers dependent on government handouts to survive. But China is now at the heart of a reversal in farmers’ fortunes, as booming exports and soaring food prices fuel a recovery in the US agricultural economy.  The US is on course to ship a record […]

Relief Web published the latest numbers from the Emergency Agriculture Surveillance project. One highlight included In April 2021, the price of maize per kilogram recorded a 16.6 percentage point drop from MK162.90 in March to MK135.94. The maize prices are lower than the MK171/kg reported by IFPRI for the month of April 2021. The northern region recorded the […]

Virtual Event: July 6, 2021- 09:30 AM to 11:00 AM EDT. This event will highlight how technologies and policies in the agri-food sector can help improve food and nutrition security for the world's growing urban populations.

Virtual Event: July 6, 2021- 07:00 AM to 8:00 AM EDT. This policy seminar presents the main findings of the UNFSS brief that assess the current evidence on pathways between gender equality, women's empowerment, and food systems.