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Agriculture.com reported that China failed to meet its “phase one” target for imports of U.S. food, agriculture, and seafood products despite a surge in purchases that began late last summer. For 2021, the target rises to $43.5 billion. The “phase one” agreement, signed a year ago, de-escalated the Sino-U.S. trade war. However, tariffs remain in place in […]

Argentina.gob.ar published an article that described a recent international meeting. The Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the Nation, Luis Basterra joined ministers and vice ministers from 97 countries who participated with representatives of international organizations such as FAO, IFPRI, the UN, WFP, and WTO to discuss the importance of sustainable agriculture, the reduction of food loss and waste, the […]

Rinj Press published an article about how the United States leaving the Paris Agreement on climate change was a poor decision for the U.S. and the world. With Biden in the presidency, the world is moving in the right direction. The article referenced a publication titled Climate change and food security. One of the co-authors is senior research fellow Keith […]

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 […]