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HK01 published an article looking back at the Arab Spring and the subsequent history of ups and downs, overthrows, new governments, and the economy. The article discussed how the COVID-19 pandemic changed tourism and the economy in places such as Egypt. An IFPRI report, COVID-19 and the Egyptian economy: Estimating the impacts of expected reductions in tourism, Suez […]

Aishwarya Sandeep Blog published a post on how the government is stepping in to decide on the legal marriage age for men and women. Currently, women can marry at 18, whereas men aren’t allowed to marry until 21. The age of maturity is the same–eighteen years of age. To avoid sex discrimination, the same should be true for marriage. […]

Dhaka Tribune (Bangladesh) published an article stating that the world has seen a rapid rise in the number of hungry people from a pre-Covid figure of 690 to 720 million in 2020, a year affected by Covid-19 induced lockdowns, food supply chain disruptions, and climate challenges. Small-scale farmers who grow much of the world’s food are left at the mercy of unpredictable […]

Naver (South Korea) published an article stating that last year, which was recorded as the warmest year of all time due to climate change, also saw an increase of the world’s hunger population, increasing by 130 million due to adverse events such as economic downturn due to the Corona 19 pandemic.  At the International Food and Agriculture Forum, deputy division director […]

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 […]