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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 […]

Financial Express published an article stating that rural revitalization should be driven by promoting agro-industries and linkages between farm and non-farm sectors. Rural revitalization requires a transformative approach that envisions making rural areas a better place to live and work. The authors make several recommendations for revitalizing rural areas. One recommendation is based on an IFPRI study on prioritization […]

Environ News Nigeria published an article on the Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology (OFAB), a biotech informative platform that can potentially bring in $638 million in six years through cowpea export with the adoption of Biotech cowpea by the government. Relying on analysis and data from the Program for Biosafety and IFPRI, the adoption of Pod-borer Resistant Cowpea (PBR) will enhance […]

The Nation (Malawi) published an article stating that the number of households employing emergency livelihood-based coping strategies is rising amid increasing maize prices, according to a World Food Programme (WFP) survey. Of the total food insecure population, approximately 22 percent live in urban areas due to Covid-19 restrictions which have affected many spheres of economic activities. Figures from IFPRI indicate that maize prices rose by […]