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The book is being launched today in Cairo on the opening day of the conference “Three Years of Conflict: What the Evidence Tells Us and What Recovery Requires.”

Avinash Kishore, IFPRI senior research fellow in New Delhi, was interviewed for the Al Jazeera’s “Inside Story” program on the Iran war risks to global food security.

Foreign Policy quotes IFPRI’s Joseph Glauber who notes that energy inputs are built into food costs at nearly every step, from production and processing through transportation and retail.

New IFPRI-led research finds that adding nutrient supplements and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions into gender-sensitive agriculture programs can significantly improve young children’s iron and vitamin A status, especially when support starts at 6 months of age and covers the whole complementary feeding period until 23 months of age.

In a World Health Day feature on nutrition and global trade, Nutrition Insight highlights analysis from IFPRI’s Purnima Menon on how global trade disruptions, conflicts, and economic shocks affect food affordability, diet diversity, and nutrition security.

WIRED.me quotes Charlotte Hebebrand in the article focusing on the the Gulf fertilizer industry—and why the ongoing escalating conflict is putting global food systems under strain.

AP quotes IFPRI’s Joseph Glauber on how the Iran war and Strait of Hormuz disruptions are tightening global fertilizer supplies. He warns farmers may switch to less fertilizer-intensive crops or apply less fertilizer, reducing yields.

This issue of BBC’s “Focus on Africa” looks at how the conflict in the Middle East is affecting the supply of fertilizer on the African continent–with insights from Oliver Kirui, IFPRI Research Fellow and Acting Country Program Leader for Nigeria and Ghana.

CGTN spoke with IFPRI’s Joseph Glauber about how the Strait of Hormuz crisis could drive up fertilizer and food prices worldwide.

IFPRI’s Joseph Glauber spoke to CGTN Europe in London to discuss the impact of the Strait of Hormuz crisis on food security.