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The relative abundance of food in cities does not mean that everyone has equal access to safe, diverse, healthy, and affordable diets.

Down to Earth (India) in the climate change section posted an article about onions. The tuber is a round-the-year cash earner for farmers. However, the Indian Parliament voted me out of the country’s essential commodities list in mid-September 2020. According to IFPRI, (Food inflation and food price volatility in India: Trends and determinants) India has been facing high […]

The Prospector published an article on how the pandemic, in a matter of months, has un-done years of progress in improving global inequality. How can a health problem widen the gap between rich and poor, and how is it pushing millions in developing countries toward the brink of starvation?  Director General Johan Swinnen said, “There is no shortage of food globally, […]

Ghana News Agency published an article stating that the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) inaugurated its Steering and Technical Advisory committees to conduct a comprehensive food security and vulnerability assessment to identify the prevailing conditions nationwide. IFPRI representatives on the committees are Research Officers Seth Asante and Sena Amewu. 

GBC Ghana Online published an article on the African Agriculture Trade Monitor, referencing the report and quoting Senior Research Fellow Antoine Bouet who said, the poor and incomplete nature of African trade data is likely to affect the collection and analysis of information to show the impact of Covid-19 on agricultural trade on the continent. He added that official databases of […]

GBC Ghana Online published an article that stated, Intra-African agricultural exports have grown faster than that of the rest of the world in the last decade, according to the African Agricultural Trade Monitor. This is especially true for many semi-processed and processed agricultural goods. The report says that African exports are now diversified and are expanding into emerging […]

Asean Post published an article on a study from the Asian Development Bank and IFPRI titled Ending hunger in Asia and the Pacific by 2030: An assessment of investment requirements in agriculture that said, “Many [Indonesians] do not get enough food and their children are prone to stunting, keeping them in a vicious cycle for generations. From 2016 to 2018, […]

Health-E News (South Africa) published an article on a new technology company that helps small-holder farmers connect to the whole agricultural value chain. Cut off from their customers during the lockdown, small-holder farmers were struggling. Restaurants and food vendors were not allowed to operate under the hard lockdown, and these farmers lost their usual customers. This new tech […]

The Nation (Malawi) published an article stating that the number of households employing emergency livelihood-based coping strategies is rising amid increasing maize prices, according to a World Food Programme (WFP) survey. Of the total food insecure population, approximately 22 percent live in urban areas due to Covid-19 restrictions which have affected many spheres of economic activities. Figures from IFPRI indicate that maize prices rose by […]

Phys Org published an article stating that a new study finds that small farms in the developing world do not perform better than large ones if costs and labor are factored in rather than just crop production. Since the 1960s, researchers have consistently found that in developing countries crop yields per hectare drop as farms increase in size. […]

The Hindu published an article that stated Three out of four rural Indians cannot afford a nutritious diet, according to the article, Affordability of nutritious diets in rural India recently published in the journal Food Policy. Even if they spent their entire income on food, almost two out of three of them would not have the money to pay for the cheapest possible […]

The Wire (India) published an article on the results of the Global Hunger Index (GHI). According to GHI, India ranks 94 out of 107 nations and falls in the “serious” hunger category. Along with these results, IFPRI has published a Food Policy journal article titled Affordability of nutritious diets in rural India. Research Fellow Kalyani Raghunathan and Senior Research Fellow Derek Headey, with senior […]

Vartha Bharati published an article about the newest Global Hunger Index. The report declared the situation in India to be ‘serious’ with a total score of 27.2. The report suggests that overall malnutrition has been declining in the past few years. However, the IFPRI study, Affordability of nutritious diets in rural India in the journal Food Policy (originally an IFPRI discussion paper, Affordability of nutritious […]

Green Biz published an article on the climate change landscape: With storms to the east and wildfires to the west, the climate crisis is at the forefront of public consciousness. But another threat comes with a warming climate: diminishing global crop yields. Nonresident Senior Research Fellow Ephraim Nkonya, who was not involved in the study stated, “The unequal burden poorer countries […]

ReliefWeb published an article stating that leading experts released a series of studies that indicate ways to move towards the resolution of this fundamental issue for the future of humanity. In one study, Ceres2030, the authors wrote, ‘the world produces enough food for everyone…” If the contributions of the richest countries are doubled as requested, “with technology, innovation, education, […]

Kashmir Times published an article on the Global Hunger Index. Poverty rates have come down in India. The problem is that malnutrition is not just caused by a lack of calories. It is caused by a lack of nutritious food, water and sanitation, and a healthcare system that is not quite adequate. We know that hunger is about much […]

Environ News Nigeria published an article on the Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology (OFAB), a biotech informative platform that can potentially bring in $638 million in six years through cowpea export with the adoption of Biotech cowpea by the government. Relying on analysis and data from the Program for Biosafety and IFPRI, the adoption of Pod-borer Resistant Cowpea (PBR) will enhance […]

Head Topics (Colombia) published an article on how a healthy diet—more vegetables, fruit and legumes, and less meat is a simple way to sustainably feed the planet’s population, but for millions of people who depend on livestock, it isn’t so easy. Livestock enables a way of life for millions of farmworkers, herders, and smallholders with limited access to land. In the study, Ceres2030 (a […]

Financial Express published an article stating that rural revitalization should be driven by promoting agro-industries and linkages between farm and non-farm sectors. Rural revitalization requires a transformative approach that envisions making rural areas a better place to live and work. The authors make several recommendations for revitalizing rural areas. One recommendation is based on an IFPRI study on prioritization […]

Report Indigo (Mexico) published an article that said, Although, several environmental researchers have indicated that stopping meat and animal products consumption would improve the state of the planet, the United Nations (UN ) said that this would be detrimental to the health of millions of people. The Global Hunger Index even revealed this week that around 690 million people around the […]