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MSN published an article stating that dollar stores in the US are likely to see a sales and earnings boost from the Biden administration’s plan to hike food stamp benefits. With the additional $36, senior research fellow, Joseph Glauber stated that “you would expect they would buy more things like meat, fish, fruits, and vegetables because those are […]

Food News- Latam.com published a summary of the FAO online conference. It is no longer just a question of the degree of access to food, but of the way it is produced, processed, transported, traded, and consumed, and its planetary effects. All this ends up composing a new notion of food security in the XXI century. High-level experts […]

Ag Health published a blog post on how the world’s largest publicly-funded agricultural research partnership, CGIAR, is currently developing a series of initiatives to implement its 2030 research and innovation strategy that was launched in early 2021. The development of the One Health initiative is being led by a team of scientists from four CGIAR research […]

Islamabad Post published an article on how stakeholders on Tuesday urged the federal government to take notice of Pakistan Horticulture Development Export Company’s (PHDEC) failure to play its due role in enhancing this sector’s exports and decide if it’s worth it. Talking to media, Vice President of Pakistan Businesses Forum and former FPCCI Chief on Agriculture, Ch Ahmad Jawad said […]

Hindu Business Line published an op-ed by senior research fellow, Anjani Kumar and Abhishek Jha on how South Asia’s produce must appeal to foreign consumers. Livestock and its produce constitute one of the most promising commodities in the primary and processed food sector. Worldwide consumption has doubled since 1995; trade grew from $77.18 billion in 2000 to $233.7 […]

Hindu Business Line published an op-ed by senior research fellow, Anjani Kumar and Abhishek Jha on how South Asia’s produce must appeal to foreign consumers. Livestock and its produce constitute one of the most promising commodities in the primary and processed food sector. Worldwide consumption has doubled since 1995; trade grew from $77.18 billion in 2000 to $233.7 billion […]

Global Citizen published an article on how local food systems can ensure healthy diets everywhere by growing nutritious and diverse crops. Millions of people experience food insecurity, with estimates that over 800 million go to bed hungry each night. And yet, we constantly hear that we produce enough food to feed every person in the world. How […]

Indian Express published an op-ed by research analyst, Manmeet Ajmani, and senior research fellows, Devesh Roy and Hiroyuki Takeshima who write that to boost agricultural productivity, open up trade, lower tariffs on equipment. Mechanization covers the whole spectrum of activities from land preparation, threshing, harvesting storage, and even transport. India’s mechanization coverage is around 40-45 percent, compared to 90 percent in developed countries. If productivity […]

Nation (Malawi) published an article on a study that showed households that had access to Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP), the predecessor of Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP), had their maize yields rise by a paltry 2.9 percent, a recent study has shown. IFPRI recently found that overall, poor households that received subsidized inputs under FISP were better off than those who did not […]

Deutschland Funkultur (Germany) published an article about how corporations determine more and more how food is produced. At the same time, hunger is increasing again worldwide. Now companies should have even more influence. Discussions persist on the role of corporations and how to produce food for populations, particularly in developing countries. “The institutes of the Working Group for International Agricultural […]