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Ground Reality published a blog post by Devinder Sharma who writes farmers in the United States and Europe are facing a severe agrarian crisis similar to the one in India. They are being driven out of agriculture despite getting huge subsidies. This is happening in rich countries that had adopted market-oriented agricultural reforms some six to seven […]

‘Mondiale Nieuws published an op-ed stating that there is no doubt that the devastation that COVID-19 indirectly wreaks will be great. Senior research fellow Jef Leroy writes that acute malnutrition is a life-threatening condition that makes children 3 to 12 times more likely to die than healthy-weight children. Essential health and nutrition services for mothers and children must continue […]

Kapital Afrik has published an article stating that more than 500 participants from academia, research, the private sector, African national public institutions, and many others, from over 30 countries, are expected to connect remotely or be present in Dakar, to exchange on the evolution of knowledge and practices of horticultural actors in Africa at the 4th All Africa Horticultural […]

Mirage (Australia) published an article explaining that a team of researchers has devised a method using smartphones to measure food consumption–an approach that also offers new ways to predict physical well-being. The study was supported by the Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) of the CGIAR, with funding provided by USAID, BMGF, IFPRI, and CGIAR’s Policies […]

Adams on Agriculture (Podcast) presented a podcast interview with senior Research fellow Joseph Glauber. Glauber. Glauber explains how reports are put together for the USDA Outlook Forum. Republished by KICD-AM (Sioux City), WRAM (Davenport, IA). 

Ahram Online (Egypt) published an article on how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the global economy and labor markets.  According to an IFPRI report, “Covid-19 could reduce national GDP by between 0.7 and 0.8 percent (LE36 to LE41 billion) for each month that the global crisis continues. Similarly, household consumption and expenditure are estimated to decline on […]

Outlook India published an article stating that today, over 800 million people face chronic undernourishment and over 100 million people are in need of life-saving food assistance. Former IFPRI director general, Shenggen Fan, said “COVID-19 is a health crisis. But it could also lead to a food security crisis if proper measures are not taken.” With more than 1.2 […]

Lailajs (Nigeria) published a blog post on intimate partner violence in Nigeria. The author wonders why the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) Act has not been passed in every state in Nigeria. The author uses research from IFPRI on IPV in Bangladesh to demonstrate how IPV can be controlled and lowered. 

LSE Blog published a blog post about the new Academic Collaboration research project, ‘Can Social Protection Empower Women? Patriarchy, Economic Agency and Redistribution Policies in Egypt’ which is primarily a methodological endeavor. Context is key to social knowledge, yet theories and methods are often summoned from location to location, from one time to another, and used to […]

This Day (Nigeria) published an article that discussed the adverse effects of COVID-19 on businesses. The biggest risk to businesses post-COVID was a failure to meet revenue expectations, among others. A report from IFPRI showed that during the lockdown periods, Nigeria’s GDP dropped by 34.1 percent, amounting to $16 billion.