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Deutsche Welle published an article on how a change of diet, consuming more plants & less meat is a simple way to sustainably feed the planet’s exploding population. But more than 1.5 billion people around the world can’t afford a diet that meets the required levels of essential nutrients, and animals provide a vital source of protein in the form of milk, meat, […]

Financial Times published an article on water futures. The article stated that water futures are about to hit financial markets for the first time, with the launch of contracts tied to prices in California. But academics and investors fear the derivatives will offer a poor hedge for water users and may end up distorting prices for the vital […]

Daily Asian Age (Bangladesh) published an article on aquaculture/fish farming. Fish production in the country has increased by more than 50 percent in the last 11 years. An IFPRI study (See IFPRI book, The Making of a Blue Revolution in Bangladesh: Enablers, Impacts, and the Path Ahead for Aquaculture) made an interesting observation while reviewing the Bangladesh fish farming sector: […]

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 […]