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Reliefweb published key highlights regarding Malawi’s response and status of the agriculture sector: 1) In the month of December 2020, the proportion of households relying on food purchase as the main source of food increased; 2) Nearly 20.0 percent of the households that owned livestock reported some suspected livestock diseases slightly down; 3) Nearly 2.3 percent of the […]

Deutsche Welle published an article on the latest news in Myanmar. The protests have not yet escalated, but the situation in Myanmar is extremely tense. The Tatmadaw, as the military is called in Myanmar, has so far mainly disrupted communication in order to make it difficult to organize protests. The pandemic has already caused serious damage to […]

New York Times published an opinion piece stating that more than politics, Myanmar needs a fresh path to democracy. Free and fair elections (and respect for the results) are essential. But also essential is the transformation of a society shaped by decades of dictatorship, international isolation, brutal armed conflict, racial and religious discrimination, extreme poverty, […]

Nigeria Communications Week published an article stating that a report from Nigeria’s Statistics Bureau showed that the economy contracted by 6.1% year on year by Quarter 2 of 2020 alone. This decline is Nigeria’s steepest recorded in the past decade. In addition, a report from IFPRI, Coronavirus: Lockdowns across Africa creating major economic loss showed that during the lockdown […]

Successful Farming published an article stating that The Biden administration’s plan to enlist American agriculture in mitigating climate change through cover crops and carbon trading could pay dividends in another field entirely — negotiations for freer agriculture trade. “A reduction in U.S. trade-distorting supports would better position the United States in multilateral trade negotiations in which trade-offs between […]

Modern Diplomacy published an article stating that young champions from Brazil to India, Cameroon to Fiji, and more than 100 countries around the world have been engaging in public debates across the five priority areas or Action Tracks, which include food security and nutrition, sustainable consumption, environmental protection, poverty, and resilience. Jemimah Njuki, Director for Africa at International Food […]

Rappler published an article on the RTL. For more than 30 years with the Quantitative Restrictions regime, the rice economy hardly developed despite the Department of Agriculture (DA) spending more than half of its budget to prop it up, Filipino consumers paying higher prices for rice than their ASEAN counterparts, and rent-seeking activities continuing to bedevil the implementation […]

Outlook (India) published an article stating that days after the fifth round of the national family health survey (NFHS-5) results showed reversal of the gains on most of the indicators of nutrition in 22 states and union territories in 2020-21, the government has recently announced the roll-out of Mission Poshan 2.0. The Finance Minister said, “supplementary nutrition program, one […]

Times of India reported in an article that the Finance Minister plans to strengthen nutritional content, delivery, outreach, and outcome, by merging supplementary nutrition program and Poshan Abhiyaan and launch Mission Poshan 2.0. According to the district nutrition profile prepared by POSHAN (Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition of India), a knowledge initiative funded by BMGF […]

Military seizes power in Myanmar (World Socialist Web)  February 1  World Socialist Web published an article on the military coup in Myanmar. In the article, IFPRI research is mentioned. According to IFPRI, lockdowns have contributed to major job losses and a dramatic rise in poverty. A September IFPRI survey found that 59 percent of 1,000 households surveyed in […]