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Diario Siglo XXI (Italy) published an article on the Action Against Hunger, an NGO that has developed an early warning system that combines high-resolution satellite images and artificial intelligence to combat the effects of climate change in the Sahel region. ACH used data from IFPRI that showed that the climate crisis will increase the number of malnourished children in the world […]

Down to Earth (India) in the climate change section posted an article about onions. The tuber is a round-the-year cash earner for farmers. However, the Indian Parliament voted me out of the country’s essential commodities list in mid-September 2020. According to IFPRI, (Food inflation and food price volatility in India: Trends and determinants) India has been facing high […]

Trust – Reuters published an article on the failure to curb conversion of natural land to farmland, and lack of green restrictions on farm aid imperil EU climate aims. Some economists warned that as the grouping faces Britain’s exit from Europe and the coronavirus pandemic, its policies need to focus on a range of goals, not […]

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, […]