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International Center for Investigative Reporting published an article on how the biting effects of climate change on the global community took a bad twist for the smallholder women farmers in the state with a sudden stop in rainfall in 2020, leading to poor harvest for many of them. In an AGRODEP project paper, The potential […]

Politico published an article on how high temperatures can hurt the economy. In addition to the health costs, fires, and stress on crops, heat makes workers less productive. One study found that factory employees in India were less likely to show up for work when it’s unusually hot. The big takeaway: Output falls by more than 2 […]

Bloomberg News produced a video that featured senior research fellow, Joseph Glauber. In the video, Glauber states that the USDA funnels billions to the agriculture industry with few strings attached. Money could benefit the environment — if the government can get the subsidies right. Agriculture has been outside regulations particularly with GHG emissions. The agriculture sector receives many […]

UN Dispatch (US) blog produced a podcast on how climate variability is causing massive numbers of people around the world to move–both across borders and within borders. The author poses a series of questions on the relationship between migration and climate. Senior Research Fellow Alan de Brauw participated as a panelist on a special episode of the Global Dispatches […]

 Washington, DC: In order to prevent the impacts of climate change from pushing an additional 78 million people into chronic hunger by 2050, annual global investments in agricultural research and development will need to increase by US $2 billion (or by 120%) between 2015 and 2050, according to a new study from researchers from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). The study provides new insights into the costs of a […]

Masress (Egypt) published an article that discussed a high-level dialogue on food security, the COVID-19 crisis, and pathways to recovery. The conference was attended by many experts including Johan Swinnen, division director. (Reach 4.8K) Also published in Zawya (Egypt), and Egypt Today.

SciTechDaily published an article on how investments in agricultural research, water management, infrastructure can avert climate-fueled growth in hunger. The model used in the study, Climate change and hunger: Estimating costs of adaption in the agrifood system links climate, crop, water, and economic models to analyze scenarios of future change in agricultural production, consumption, prices, and trade at national, regional, […]

Eureka Alert published an article on an IFPRI study that provides new insights into the costs of a range of investment scenarios for climate change adaptation, drawing from complex modeling of its ecological and human impacts. The study, Climate change and hunger:  Estimating costs of adaption in the agrifood system and its model show, according to Senior Scientist and lead […]

Finance Sina (China) published an article about findings from IFPRI in the Food Policy Report, Climate change and hunger: Estimating costs of adaption in the agrifood system, that found in order to prevent the effects of climate change from causing another 78 million people to fall into prolonged hunger by 2050, global agricultural research and development will be promoted between […]

Gizmodo (Brazil) published an article on the IFPRI study, Climate change and hunger: Estimating costs of adaption in the agrifood system, that found that investments in agricultural research, water management and infrastructure can prevent the impacts of climate change from increasing the number of people suffering from chronic hunger by 2050. Only the agricultural sector would need to receive […]