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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 […]

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 […]