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Frontier Myanmar published an article stating that throughout much of the country, Myanmar’s farmers are busy preparing their fields for the monsoon rice crop – the key annual event for a sector that accounts for about half of all Myanmar’s jobs and one-third of GDP. This year, though, farmers’ faces are lined with worry over the political turmoil and […]

Mirage News (Australia) published an article on the effects of COVID-19 on child development. The Research Consortium is the first initiative to be launched as part of the Global School Feeding Coalition, which is being established by a growing group of member states and aims at making sure that every child has access to school meals in every […]

SeedQuest (US) published an article on an experiment performed by researchers with consumers. If the usual seed packet purchased by consumers isn’t available (the researchers did not put the preferred brand on display in a mock seed shop) The team’s goal was to observe what factors influence her seed purchase decision in the absence of the variety she […]

IM4Change (Inclusive Media for Change) published an article on the 2021 Global Food Policy Report. The article gives a full analysis and review of the Report and how it relates to India. The report cites a survey conducted in rural India during April last year that found that in roughly half of the households, women were spending more […]

The Conversation published an op-ed by Senior Research Fellow Kalle Hirvonen and co-authors on the importance of child vaccinations. What was found in their research, Institutional mistrust and child vaccination coverage in Africa, is that although 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 […]

Ngoho News reported on a wide-reaching address by Minister Thoko Didiza who spoke on women’s empowerment, land reform, agricultural research among other topics. She mentioned IFPRI research that found that “Extensive empirical evidence demonstrates that agricultural research and development investments have greatly contributed to economic growth, agricultural development, and poverty reduction in developing regions over the past five decades.” […]

Efe Agro (Spain) published an article that stated, the agri-food systems of America are in a profound transition towards more sustainable models despite the difficulties caused by the covid-19 pandemic. Eugenio Díaz Bonilla, urged countries to work together to transform the agri-food sectors and warned that the results of this transformation will have global implications. due to the importance of […]

Sitquije published an article on how agrifood systems must be improved, transformed, and strengthened to create a zero-hunger world. The region plays and will continue to play a central role in terms of domestic supply and food supply to the countries of the world. In the 2021 Global Food Policy Report, Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla, head of the Latin America & Caribbean region at IFPRI, wrote that this transformation should […]

Notimerica published an article about a new study by IFPRI, USDA Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), and RTI that projects that chronic and hidden hunger globally will increase the years of life lost due to premature mortality and years lived with disability, also known as disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), worldwide by more than 30 million by 2050 relative to 2010. The effects […]

Grupo Mundo Ejectuvio (Mexico) published an article on food systems and Latin America and the Caribbean. Within the framework of the 2021 Global Food Policy Report, the Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader), Víctor Villalobos Arámbula, called on the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean to design public policies of long-term to transform agri-food systems and address the vulnerability […]