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Asean Post published an article on a study from the Asian Development Bank and IFPRI titled Ending hunger in Asia and the Pacific by 2030: An assessment of investment requirements in agriculture that said, “Many [Indonesians] do not get enough food and their children are prone to stunting, keeping them in a vicious cycle for generations. From 2016 to 2018, […]

The Rise (India) published an op-ed by Senior Research Fellow Devesh Roy, Mamata Pradhan, and Ruchira Boss. The authors write that there are several lessons to learn from the experiments in the past, like the repeal of APMC in Bihar and the institution of e-NAM, which have elements of the current farm acts. History of little success will be […]

IFPRI warmly congratulates our colleagues at the World Food Programme for being named the recipient of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. The award is a highly-deserved honor and a testament to the important mission and much-needed work of the WFP to provide urgently needed sustenance to the most vulnerable. We at IFPRI are extremely proud […]

Deutschlandfunk published an article about world hunger. While fewer and fewer people had to go hungry for decades, their number is now increasing again. The corona pandemic and the economic crisis are also triggers. The pandemic hit Kenya and the other African countries much less than feared. At the beginning of October, the reported infections in Kenya were below […]

Business Mirror (Philippines) published an article that states the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) is set to lead the development of national road maps for key agri-based value chains where smallholders play a prominent role in five countries, including the Philippines. The five-year project “Agricultural Transformation and Market Integration in the Asean […]

Business Insight (Malaya) published an article on the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL) that is expected to accelerate agricultural growth and facilitate the structural transformation of the economy, with gross domestic product (GDP) increasing by at least 0.13 percentage points in 2025, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said. Karl Kendrick Chua, NEDA acting secretary, said the estimate is […]

Philippine Star published an article stating that The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) has urged the public to give the Rice Tariffication Law a chance to take effect in the structural transformation of the economy and contribute to the growth of the agriculture sector.  Citing a 2019 IFPRI study, NEDA said the law could boost economic growth by […]

GBC Ghana Online published an article that stated, Intra-African agricultural exports have grown faster than that of the rest of the world in the last decade, according to the African Agricultural Trade Monitor. This is especially true for many semi-processed and processed agricultural goods. The report says that African exports are now diversified and are expanding into emerging […]

Times Malawi published an article on maize prices in Malawi. It stated that the Malawi Monthly Maize Market Report for September indicates that prices of maize, the country’s staple crop, went up by six percent that month.

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) presents the Trade Winds virtual event with Anabel Gonzalez, Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber, and Research Fellow Emeritus Sherman Robinson. The virtual event discusses the pandemic and its containment measures placed unprecedented stress on agriculture trade and raised the specter of a global food crisis. After the initial fears, how has COVID-19 affected the food system? […]