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Geoff Tansey Blog interviewed and discussed the 2021 Global Food Policy Report with A4NH Division Director and co-author of the report, John McDermott. The podcast provides details about the Report, gives examples of responses to needs during COVID-19, and how those responses can move global food systems forward, transform them, and create healthier, more sustainable, and more resilient food systems that […]

The Nation (Malawi) published an article examining the National Statistical Office’s analysis which showed that food prices rose and continued to push up inflation. Maize, as part of the food component, accounts for about 45.2 percent of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which is an aggregate basket of goods and services for computing inflation. Ironically, prices of […]

Daily Monitor (Uganda) published an article on one health impact of aflatoxins. This year, Kenya, a country where maize is a major food crop, stopped the importation of maize from Uganda because of quality concerns. Their main complaint about Ugandan maize, according to media reports, was the presence of aflatoxins in the maize. Uganda loses more than […]

Agri-pulse published an article on how the U.S. was one of nine countries critical of the European Union last year when it unveiled a plan to tax imports based on their carbon footprint, but that was under the Trump administration. Now the Biden administration is signaling a stronger kinship to the EU’s push to reduce greenhouse gas […]

The News (Pakistan) published an article stating that Ahmad Jawad, VP of Pakistan’s Businesses Forum urged the government to take notice of Pakistan Horticulture Development Export Company’s failure to play its due role in enhancing this sector’s exports and decide if it’s worth it. Jawad said according to 2015 IFPRI IMPACT projections, Russia’s demand for fruit would the fastest-growing […]

The Nation (Malawi) published the March 2021 findings from IFPRI’s Monthly Maize Market Report. The findings include the following highlights: 

Financial Express published an article stating that in a major policy shift, the government is planning to purchase Boro harvest directly from the farmers this season to help ensure a fair price for the latter and boost its own stock. The cabinet division recommended that the food ministry take necessary steps to this effect, an official said. IFPRI, in a recent […]

My Joy Online (Nigeria) published an article on the 2021 Global Food Policy Report that stated that the severe health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have disrupted food systems and upended livelihoods. The report provides lessons drawn from the current crisis that can help us transform food systems to reduce the impact of the ongoing pandemic, better prepare for […]

Rolling Stone Magazine published an article on how food is an entrenched part of any culture. In America, we associate peaches with Georgia and shellfish with New England; we go to Napa for wine tasting, and sing songs about the heartland’s amber waves of grain. But in a few short decades, rising sea levels and […]

The Hill published an op-ed by senior research fellow Joseph Glauber on a recent House hearing where U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said that USDA would terminate the Farmers to Family Food Box program. The food box program was created during the early phase of the pandemic when processing bottlenecks caused by lockdowns and COVID-19 outbreaks had upended […]