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The News Today (Bangladesh) published an article on the losses incurred by fish farmers in the central, north, and southern districts due to recurrent flooding. The loss in question may have a negative impact on the supply of the animal protein. Fish farming has flourished over the last two decades in the country, while farmed fish […]

Sindo News published an article stating that world organizations such as FAO, IFPRI, and the UN warned that the COVID-19 pandemic can lead to a new food crisis, which affects the food security of a country, especially poor and developing countries. Since 2019, PT Pertamina Integrated Terminal Makassar has embraced the community, especially housewives, to take advantage of […]

Vatican News published an article on the launch of The Standard for Sustainable Rice Cultivation developed by the Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP). The label will help shoppers reduce their environmental impact by identifying rice that has been sustainably produced. The crop has an undeniable environmental impact. Rice farming consumes up to one-third of the world’s developed freshwater resources […]

Bangladesh Post published an article on how the government has taken all sorts of preparation to meet the demand for rice and paddy and ensure food security of the country despite the coronavirus pandemic and worsening flood situation. IFPRI-Bangladesh conducted a study on rice prices, production costs, and procurement methods for the 2019 Boro season. The study found […]

The Borgen Project published a blogpost on the resilience of food supply chains amidst COVID-19, the potential to fight poverty, how new innovations brought on by the necessity to combat the harm of COVID-19 is an opportunity for long-term poverty alleviation (see IFPRI blogpost, COVID-19 and the promise of food system innovation). In the blogpost, Corinna Hawkes writes, “During […]

Aquaculture Magazine published an article on how fish farmers in Ghana are being trained to improve the adoption of good aquaculture practices, including the use of high-quality fingerlings. “The training manuals and extension materials used in the training sessions were carefully crafted by 15 experts with diverse background and experience in aquaculture production including those in the Marine […]

My Joy (Ghana) published an article that after a decade of tremendous growth in production, Ghana’s tilapia farmers have been hit with severe setbacks in the last two years and those setbacks are due to disease.  Poor biosecurity measures are exposing most farms to this tragedy.  Senior Research Fellow  and project lead on the TiSeed, Catherine Ragasa says, “a lot […]

World Bank Blogs published an article stating that Machu Picchu is one of the seven wonders of the modern world. However, another phenomenon has pulled public health experts and scientists, including World Bank experts, to Peru – that of childhood stunting. One project trying to create solutions is the Gates Ventures and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in partnership with […]

Prothom Alo reported on the upcoming onion season. Farmers will start onion cultivation in the country within a month. Murikata (early variety) onions will start to appear in the market in mid-December. However, this onion cannot be stored. Onions produced from seeds will be harvested in March. The farmers can increase production if they get a good […]

El Pais published an article on the prediction of increased hunger following behind the COVID-19 health crisis. Children, the starkest face of hunger on the African continent has also been the victim of an increasingly present phenomenon: emaciation. Senior Research Fellow Derek Headey states that the pandemic resulted in 6.7 million children under the age of five affected by this […]

Newsbreak (Bloomberg Opinion) wrote that — Covid-19 the disease has mostly spared children’s lives, but it is widely expected that the measures taken to slow its spread and the economic dislocation that has followed in its wake will have all sorts of negative consequences for them.  IFPRI and Johns Hopkins researchers found that COVID-related malnutrition would claim the […]

The Print (India) published an article on how the Modi govt’s nod to field trials of two brinjal varieties comes after years of delayed decisions, leaving farmers to deal with daily risks of agriculture. Whereas the projects failed in India, Bangladesh picked up where India left off.  IFPRI, together with the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), carried out […]

Financial Express (India) published an op-ed on former division director (South Asia Office) P K. Joshi and Arabinda K. Padhee. The authors write that agri-marketing reforms have been described as key to harnessing the untapped potential of the farm sector. With enhanced agricultural production and a resultant ‘marketable surplus’ from an increasing number of farm households over the […]

Baidu.com (China) published an article on the Smart Agriculture Innovation Team of the Institute of Agricultural Resources and Agricultural Regional Planning of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences cooperated with IFPRI, the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and other units for 3 years. They developed and shared a new phase of global high-precision cultivated land distribution […]

Epoch Times published an article that states China’s pork prices remain high and the consumer price index increases, and the CCP government hopes to restore the number of live pigs and encourage pig farmers to replenish the amount of pigs to be slaughtered, but small family pig farms are already in debt. There are no assets that can […]

Fox Business News published an article on how China’s is so desperate to rebuild pig herds after swine fever that its banks are experimenting with loans to farmers backed by a novel asset: their hogs. Senior Research Fellow Yanyan Liu says banks would face challenges both in valuing pigs and enforcing their rights if loans went bad. Hog prices are […]

BNN Bloomberg published an article that working the land can be a dangerous occupation because of longstanding religious and ethnic tensions and, more recently, organized crime. That’s as farmers already were having to contend with flooding or drought. It’s all now hitting agriculture just when Nigeria needs it most. Warming temperatures have also turned some once green northern […]

Science Blog (Horizon Magazine Blog) published an article that discussed food justice. Horizon asked five food experts and activists what their top priority is for achieving food justice – ensuring that everyone on the planet has access to affordable, sustainable, healthy food. Director General, Johan Swinnen said that since Covid-19 shocked the food system and accelerated digital changes, “to benefit […]

IFPRI is hosting a side event at the World Food Prize 2020 Borlaug Dialogue. The session will address COVID-19 and Developing-Country Responses, presenting country and regional perspectives including from China, India, Africa south of the Sahara, and a global perspective. Speakers will offer brief perspectives followed by an engaging q&a session with the virtual audience. […]

IFPRI Senior Research Fellow John Ulimwengu is participating in the webinar, “Food Staple Market Dynamics: Nutrition Effects of Rising Prices among the poor and vulnerable” on September 17, 2020. Coronary heart disease, stroke, hypertension, atherosclerosis, obesity, some forms of cancer, Type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, gall bladder disease, dementia and nutritional anemia are major causes of death, illness […]