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The Nation (Malawi) reported that the informal cross-border maize exports have increased by 125 percent from June to July. Since April, Mozambique maize was not coming into Malawi as it normally does during harvest. “Maize has been moving into Mozambique. Besides that, their prices as early as the end of May were already quite high trading at […]

All Africa published an article on the latest findings from ICRISAT and IFPRI stating that a millet-based diet could lower the risk of diabetes, a rapidly growing problem in Sub-Saharan Africa. The study, published in August in the journal Frontiers in Nutrition, analyses millet consumption and its impact on cardiovascular health. It found that people with diabetes who consumed […]

Graphic Online (Ghana) published an article stating that the Fisheries Commission has developed a new requirement to regulate aquaculture in the country in order to help increase farm productivity and ensure safe and quality fish for the market. It is being spearheaded by IFPRI, the Water Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (WRI-CSIR), […]

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 […]