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Mirage News (Australia) published an article on the effects of COVID-19 on child development. The Research Consortium is the first initiative to be launched as part of the Global School Feeding Coalition, which is being established by a growing group of member states and aims at making sure that every child has access to school meals in every […]

SeedQuest (US) published an article on an experiment performed by researchers with consumers. If the usual seed packet purchased by consumers isn’t available (the researchers did not put the preferred brand on display in a mock seed shop) The team’s goal was to observe what factors influence her seed purchase decision in the absence of the variety she […]

Human Rights Watch published an article stating that due to the pandemic, many children have entered the workforce to help their families survive, while others have been forced to work longer hours or enter more precarious and exploitative situations. Some despair of ever going back to school. Many of the children described a lack of food and […]

The Beijing News reported on the launch of the 2021 Global Food Policy Report in Beijing. At the launch, director general Johan Swinnen said, “Since 2015, the number of hungry people in the world has been on the rise. The COVID-19 pandemic in the past two years has exacerbated this dilemma. More people are facing […]

Building resilience and fostering sustainable growth post-pandemic.

The Nation (Malawi) published an article on the ADMARC (Agricultural Development & Marketing Corporation), a government-funded program, and the findings from the IFPRI book, Disentangling subsistence agriculture in Malawi, on the role of ADMARC. The book observes that ADMARC is ineffective at defending the government-set maize price band, adding uncertainty to the market, affecting all stakeholders […]

Collecting data on agricultural and food trade on all trade corridors in the West African region using the West African Association for Cross-Border Trade in Agro-forestry-pastoral and Fisheries Products (WACTAF).

Encouraging the development of value chains can benefit both smallholders and consumers.

A key goal is within reach with the right mix of investments.

The Conversation published an op-ed by Senior Research Fellow Kalle Hirvonen and co-authors on the importance of child vaccinations. What was found in their research, Institutional mistrust and child vaccination coverage in Africa, is that although immunization saves millions of lives each year, progress in vaccine coverage remains highly uneven, both between and within countries. Despite considerable progress over the past two decades, the situation is particularly […]

Bloomberg published an article informing the public that the U.S. Coast Guard has reopened the Mississippi River to maritime traffic, ending a shutdown that stranded more than 1,000 barges on the key conduit for agriculture exports. Delays are expected when repairs begin on the bridge for highway travel.” “Hopefully the repair efforts will not cause restrictions in barge traffic,” said senior research fellow Joseph Glauber. […]

Funcionace Nutroceuticos (Brazil) published an article announcing the partnership among Bayer, the IFPRI, and ETH Zurich. The organizations have joined forces to develop solutions based on nature that neutralize the loss of biodiversity on farms. The research collaboration is focused on a global scale and with a particular focus on large-scale plantations, such as wheat, corn, and soybeans, grown in simplified agricultural landscapes, such […]

Parliamentary Monitoring Group (South Africa) published an article that released statements and responses by the Minister of Agriculture Land Reforms and Rural Development. In that address, agricultural research was discussed and a study by IFPRI was highlighted. In the study, IFPRI found “Extensive empirical evidence demonstrates that agricultural research and development investments have greatly contributed to economic growth, agricultural development, […]

Introducing the “End Hunger, Nourish the Future Pledge."

WIS Business produced an interview/podcast with Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber who discussed trends in U.S.-China agricultural trade affecting the Midwest. Here the interview beginning at 01:14. It can also be found on YouTube here. Also published by WisPolitics (Wisconsin).

Sunday Standard (Botswana) published an article on nutrition, child stunting and underweight, and other forms of malnutrition. IFPRI says high food prices could help explain why countries such as Botswana continue to struggle with a double burden of malnutrition extremes.  This includes diets that have too little nutrients or so many that the diet causes […]

Sitquije published an article on how agrifood systems must be improved, transformed, and strengthened to create a zero-hunger world. The region plays and will continue to play a central role in terms of domestic supply and food supply to the countries of the world. In the 2021 Global Food Policy Report, Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla, head of the Latin America & Caribbean region at IFPRI, wrote that this transformation should […]

Notimerica published an article about a new study by IFPRI, USDA Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), and RTI that projects that chronic and hidden hunger globally will increase the years of life lost due to premature mortality and years lived with disability, also known as disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), worldwide by more than 30 million by 2050 relative to 2010. The effects […]

Pandemic impacts fall more heavily on smallholder farmers and others serving more traditional markets.

EurekAlert published an announcement about a new study partnered by IFPRI, USAID, and RTI. The study shows that climate change will increase the challenge of meeting the nutrition and food needs of a growing population, especially in Africa south of the Sahara, but policy actions initiated now could help avert this additional burden.