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Graphic.com (Ghana) published an article on Ghana’s human consumption of maize. Experts believe that the only way to ensure maize used as feed is to separate it from maize used for human consumption. Most often, during the planning stage of production, particularly for a grain such as maize, only human food was considered highly to the neglect […]

Biookonomie (Germany) published an article on the virtual Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA). Experts from across the world discussed resilient food systems in times of panedmic and climate change. Director general Johan Swinnen was a participant. Swinnen, while discussing the increase of world hunger, warned, “The world is not on track to eliminate hunger and malnutrition.” The numbers of those […]

New Security Beat (Wilson Center) published an article on food security, land ownership, and gender.  In South Asia, food security and nutrition have not improved significantly despite the region’s economic growth. Importantly, both are deeply influenced by gender relations in the agricultural sector. Enforcing women’s access to land and other productive assets, accounting for rural women’s growing work […]

The Gatodonte published a blog post that looks at “The Skeptical Ecologist.” Twenty years have passed since The Skeptical Ecologist (2001) was published. The book looked at various issues involving agriculture, nutrition, and poverty in developing countries. The book looked at crop productivity and referenced IFPRI’s research and findings that estimated that production will increase by 41 percent between […]

The regional representations of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the World Food Programme (WFP) signed a regional Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a framework of collaboration to fill knowledge gaps on food security in urban, conflict-affected, and hard-to-reach areas in West & Central Africa. The MoU was signed by Elvira Pruscini, Deputy […]

The Hindu published an article stating that an additional 93 lakh children under five are likely to suffer from wasting, 26 lakh more from stunting, while there will be an estimated 1.68 lakh additional under-five deaths in the first three years of the post-COVID-19 world, estimates a new study authored by various international development organizations including IFPRI […]

Deutsche Welle published an article on fighting climate change. The article states that curbing meat consumption is essential in the fight against climate change. But it is a more complicated story in countries that face spiraling food insecurity.  Deputy division director in EPTD Claudia Ringler stated that while there is “an overconsumption of some meat products in […]

Relief Web published an article stating that the Chadian Government, due to recent spikes in COVID-19, have closed the capital city, the airport, and the country’s borders. This lockdown has meant citizens of Chad are food insecure, and in a health and financial crisis. Chronic malnutrition is also high, affecting one in three children in Chad. The […]

Daily Times (Pakistan) published an article on women in agriculture. There have been fiery waves of feminism in Pakistan manifested by the multiple Aurat marches and the trending hashtags on social media. Why then is it that within the agricultural sector, the backbone of our country, we are witnessing what is perhaps one of the worst scenarios of gender […]

The Nation (Malawi) stated in an article that The Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) says the country’s inflation outlook remains favorable owing to a surplus in maize output last year and a forecast of a similar trend this year. IFPRI’s Malawi Maize Monthly Market Report was referenced. According to IFPRI, showed that maize prices rose by six percent in […]