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Sunday Standard (Botswana) published an article on how Botswana policymakers will look to two major conferences on climate change to help transform Botswana. A report prepared by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) entitled: 2021 Global Food Policy Report: Beyond the Pandemic Transforming Food Systems after COVID-19 states that the pandemic and associated policy responses “exposed […]

IFA Magazine reported that the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are now in real jeopardy of not meeting their 2030 deadline thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to Sarvjeev S. Sidhu CFA, Head of Emerging Markets Strategy at Aegon Asset Management. According to IFPRI, “persons without social protection were particularly vulnerable to Covid-19. An additional 150 million people are […]

Smart Farmer published an article on IFPRI research that finds exporting avocados to high-value European markets can boost the income of Kenya’s smallholder farmers by 39 percent, a new report says. Research Fellow and lead author of the report, Mulubrhan Amare states that “International agricultural markets offer a higher price and also demand higher quality than the local market. Producing for […]

IPS published an op-ed by Jemimah Njuki, head of the Africa Region, and Elizabeth Nsimadala. The op-ed wrote that they believe the Food Systems Summit could provide a forum for a reset that seeks to find common ground for the increasingly fractious debate over food production in Africa. Most Africans—including up to 90% of people living in rural communities—still […]

Boom Live (Indian) published an article stating that the veto comes months after the National Family Health Survey reported an alarming drop in the nutrition levels of children.  The government has dropped the breakfast at school scheme and the extension of mid-day meal schemes despite the National Education Policy’s findings that children are unable to learn optimally when they […]

Paepard reported on World Water Week and summarized the discussion on “Irrigation and socio-environmental resilience: Finding confluence between strategy and disaster” co-sponsored by Feed the Future/USAID and IFPRI. The session presented new knowledge and tools that contribute to innovative small-scale irrigation approaches that can be developed without increasing risk to water and other natural resources 

Nature published an op-ed by former director general, Joachim von Braun, Kaosar Afsana, Louise O. Fresco, and Mohamed Hassan on how the United Nations should harness science and technology to improve nutrition and safeguard the environment. In September, the United Nations secretary-general, António Guterres, will convene a Food Systems Summit. This is only the sixth UN summit on food since […]

Zodiak TV in its daily news show reported on fertilizer prices at a recent conference on the Affordable Inputs Program (AIP) (beginning at 4:56) in Malawi. Jan Duchoslav, a researcher fellow (IFPRI-Malawi) challenges the government to come up with long-term plans. He stated that the government needs good policies. It’s a problem that is there and there’s little that can be done in […]

Economic & Political Weekly published an op-ed by research fellow, Rasmi Avula. Avula writes, “Research in most cases begins with a quest to close a gap in the existing scientific literature, to inform a policy dialogue, and/or to inform programmatic decisions. Investigators identify a topic for research and set the research process in motion. Regardless of the […]

Ground Views (Sri Lanka) published an article that references an IFPRI survey that found that farmers faced food insecurity as a result of the measures that had been put into place to curb the spread of Covid-19. The report said that “High levels of food insecurity and disruptions across domains such as income, asset ownership, and agriculture could have short- […]