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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 […]

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 […]