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The Prospector published an article on how the pandemic, in a matter of months, has un-done years of progress in improving global inequality. How can a health problem widen the gap between rich and poor, and how is it pushing millions in developing countries toward the brink of starvation?  Director General Johan Swinnen said, “There is no shortage of food globally, […]

Ghana News Agency published an article stating that the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) inaugurated its Steering and Technical Advisory committees to conduct a comprehensive food security and vulnerability assessment to identify the prevailing conditions nationwide. IFPRI representatives on the committees are Research Officers Seth Asante and Sena Amewu. 

Health-E News (South Africa) published an article on a new technology company that helps small-holder farmers connect to the whole agricultural value chain. Cut off from their customers during the lockdown, small-holder farmers were struggling. Restaurants and food vendors were not allowed to operate under the hard lockdown, and these farmers lost their usual customers. This new tech […]

The Wire (India) published an article on the results of the Global Hunger Index (GHI). According to GHI, India ranks 94 out of 107 nations and falls in the “serious” hunger category. Along with these results, IFPRI has published a Food Policy journal article titled Affordability of nutritious diets in rural India. Research Fellow Kalyani Raghunathan and Senior Research Fellow Derek Headey, with senior […]

Vartha Bharati published an article about the newest Global Hunger Index. The report declared the situation in India to be ‘serious’ with a total score of 27.2. The report suggests that overall malnutrition has been declining in the past few years. However, the IFPRI study, Affordability of nutritious diets in rural India in the journal Food Policy (originally an IFPRI discussion paper, Affordability of nutritious […]

Green Biz published an article on the climate change landscape: With storms to the east and wildfires to the west, the climate crisis is at the forefront of public consciousness. But another threat comes with a warming climate: diminishing global crop yields. Nonresident Senior Research Fellow Ephraim Nkonya, who was not involved in the study stated, “The unequal burden poorer countries […]

ReliefWeb published an article stating that leading experts released a series of studies that indicate ways to move towards the resolution of this fundamental issue for the future of humanity. In one study, Ceres2030, the authors wrote, ‘the world produces enough food for everyone…” If the contributions of the richest countries are doubled as requested, “with technology, innovation, education, […]

Head Topics (Colombia) published an article on how a healthy diet—more vegetables, fruit and legumes, and less meat is a simple way to sustainably feed the planet’s population, but for millions of people who depend on livestock, it isn’t so easy. Livestock enables a way of life for millions of farmworkers, herders, and smallholders with limited access to land. In the study, Ceres2030 (a […]

Foresight4Food presented a podcast of the SDSN, Foresight4Food, IFAD, and APRA co-hosted series, eDialogues on the future of small-scale farming. The session explored and compared the dynamics of small-scale agriculture and food system change across Asia, Latin America, Africa, and OECD countries. The perspectives of small-scale farming in each individual region were discussed in a panel discussion that featured Research Fellow Avinash Kishore and Mamata Pradhan. 

Foreign Policy published an article stating that this year, figures from one-time U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to U.K. Shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds have called for the exploration of a wealth tax, making it one of the most popular and seemingly new policy ideas on both sides of the Atlantic.  If there were a universal levy of, say, 2 percent […]