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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 […]

BMZ (Germany) published an article on German Development Minister Gerd Müller’s meeting with representatives from IFPRI, Cornell University, FAO, and other organizations on the Ceres2030: ‘Sustainable Solutions to End Hunger report. The Minister stated that “The latest studies show that the industrialized countries could fund the necessary investments if they provide an annual additional 14 billion dollars between now and 2030. The developing countries also need […]

Malawi Times reported on IFPRI-Malawi findings that show that 75 percent of maize farmers and 90 percent of soybean farmers sold their crops below the official minimum farmgate prices. The report released this month established that 39 percent for maize and 52 percent for soybeans were sold either on-farm or at nearby markets (41 percent for both crops) and were mainly sold to assemblers and retailers. This study used an […]

Reliefweb published an article from IFPRI-Myanmar stating that to understand how Myanmar’s crop marketing system has been affected by the COVID-19 crisis, phone interviews were conducted with more than 100 agricultural commodity traders roughly every 30 days from late May until early August 2020. A round of qualitative interviews was also conducted with key informants on land-trading routes to China, Thailand, and India. Republished in Humanitarian News, Nigerian News Shafaqna