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USDA’s ERS published an article on the 2020 International Food Security Assessment (IFSA) published by the USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) highlights an increase in food insecurity around the world associated with the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Recent updates to the IFSA report suggest the number of food-insecure people increased by 160 million in 2020, corresponding with a […]

Business News This Week covered a virtual conference that included Senior research fellow Anjani Kumar. The meeting stated that the agriculture and food sector are facing multiple challenges. With the global population projected to grow from 7.6 billion in 2018 to over 9.6 billion in 2050, there will be a significant increase in the demand for food. At […]

India Spend published an article asking the question, where are nutrition programs failing and why? To accurately understand this and for ideas on how to efficiently target the crisis of malnutrition among Indian children, it is necessary to collect and use data from villages. Senior research fellow Purnima Menon said, “The challenge that India often faces is the delivery […]

Voice of America published an article on how the impacts of COVID-19 and the military coup in Myanmar have created an economic meltdown. Over the past few months, prices for many other domestically grown and consumed crops have fallen faster. Wholesale prices for potatoes, onions, beans, and other staples were down 22 to 48 percent in April […]

Business Mirror (The Philippines) published an article stating that the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture will develop the ASEAN Guidelines for the Utilization of Digital Technologies for ASEAN Food and Agricultural Sector. One component, led by IFPRI, will provide macro data analysis on the estimation of the overall impact of Covid-19 on agricultural production […]

The Print published an op-ed by Senior research fellow Kalle Hirvonen and his co-authors that states while immunization saves millions of lives each year, progress in vaccine coverage remains highly uneven, both between and within countries. Despite considerable progress over the past two decades, the situation is particularly worrying in Africa. Nearly half of the world’s unvaccinated and under-vaccinated children […]

Human Rights Watch published an article stating that due to the pandemic, many children have entered the workforce to help their families survive, while others have been forced to work longer hours or enter more precarious and exploitative situations. Some despair of ever going back to school. Many of the children described a lack of food and […]

The Beijing News reported on the launch of the 2021 Global Food Policy Report in Beijing. At the launch, director general Johan Swinnen said, “Since 2015, the number of hungry people in the world has been on the rise. The COVID-19 pandemic in the past two years has exacerbated this dilemma. More people are facing […]

The Nation (Malawi) published an article on the ADMARC (Agricultural Development & Marketing Corporation), a government-funded program, and the findings from the IFPRI book, Disentangling subsistence agriculture in Malawi, on the role of ADMARC. The book observes that ADMARC is ineffective at defending the government-set maize price band, adding uncertainty to the market, affecting all stakeholders […]

Guyana Chronicle published an article stating that the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic must be heeded in order to increase the resilience of food-system actors, promote the expansion and flexibility of social protection policies, and improve access to infrastructure and markets as they are related to Latin America and the Caribbean. Valeria Piñeiro, Senior Research Coordinator, said, “This […]