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The Nation (Malawi) published an article on how farmers are dealing with prices for crops. Maize and soya bean farmers sold their crops below the government recommended farm-gate minimum prices of K200 per kilogram and K300 per kg according to an IFPRI-Malawi study, Report on a study to crowdsource farmgate prices for maize and soybeans in Malawi. The study shows that about   75 percent of maize farmers and […]

Reliefweb published an article on stating that between April and October 2020, IFPRI and Michigan State University, with support from the United States Agency of International Development (USAID) and the Livelihoods and Food Security Fund (LIFT), have undertaken analyses of secondary data combined with regular telephone surveys of actors at all stages of Myanmar’s agri-food system in order to better understand the impacts of COVID-19 […]

Reliefweb published an article about how Myanmar had one of the lowest confirmed COVID-19 caseloads in the world in mid-2020 and was one of the few developing countries not projected to go into economic recession. to explore the impacts of COVID-19 disruptions on household poverty and coping strategies, as well as maternal food insecurity experiences, this study used a telephone […]

Agri-Pulse published an article on the report from Ceres2030 on ending hunger by the year 2030. The article stated that donors in the fight against hunger would need to spend an additional $14 billion on average each year between now and 2030 to help end hunger, an amount that is roughly double the current investment. This conclusion comes from the Ceres2030: […]

New Humanitarian (Kenya) published an article stating that aid agencies routinely list the coronavirus as a major factor in driving humanitarian needs, from the Sahel to Somalia, and don’t shy away from describing its impact as the “perfect storm.” In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, research was showing that bad times were ahead–famine, loss of jobs, closed markets, and poverty on the rise. […]

Deutsche Welle (DW) (Germany) reported on a recent conference where German Development Minister Mueller participated in a food security conference. Mueller discussed what he viewed as the current situation and what are the next global moves. The developing countries themselves should also make agriculture and the food industry a priority and make additional investments of a comparable amount in order to guarantee a world […]

Hindustan Times published an article focusing on a paper by Research Fellow Kalyani Raghunathan that states the cost of a recommended diet (CoRD) in India in 2011 (the most recent year for which expenditure and consumption data is available) was ₹45.1 and ₹51.3 for women and men, numbers that were almost 1.6 times the commonly used World Bank poverty line […]

Nutrition Insight published an article that stated approximately US$330 billion is needed in additional funding over the next decade to end global hunger by 2030, requiring the donor community to double its current spending. Using artificial intelligence (AI) to scan half a million research papers on investment funding, the newly published Ceres2030: Sustainable Solutions to End Hunger report has found that […]

Mirage News published an article on the release of new findings from the Ceres2030 project that were announced during the launch of the Agriculture and Food Security Program Replenishment Period 2020-25. GAFSP’s replenishment comes at a critical moment as progress towards achieving SDG2 by 2030 is at risk. According to Ceres2030: ‘Sustainable Solutions to End Hunger findings, donors must spend an additional […]

Lifeboat.com published an article on the latest findings of Ceres2030, a project designed to solve global hunger over the next decade. Ceres2030 employed machine learning, librarian savvy, and research synthesis methods to quickly scan a trove of thousands of scientific journals for ideas and websites from more than 60 agencies that can help eradicate world hunger. One of the scientists […]