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Tribune (India) published an article on the new set of reforms that are encouraging corporatization, with big business moving into agriculture, storage, and marketing. As the experience of US/Europe shows, when unregulated markets become dominant, small farmers are the first to be pushed out of agriculture. IFPRI-South Asia Region states ‘move up or move out’. For several decades, mainline economists […]

Sohu.com published an article on about new research on stunting in higher altitudes. According to Senior Research Fellow Kalle Hirvonen, “More than 800 million people live at altitudes of 1,500 meters or higher, and two-thirds of them live in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. These two regions have most of the stunted children in the world, so understand that altitude […]

Agri-pulse published an article on how either candidate, Donald Trump or Joseph Biden would conduct trade policies. Trump claims successes while Biden claims his opponent’s policies have hurt US farmers. A Trump representative said, “President Trump is delivering on his promises to America’s farmers and agriculture community, as he has taken unprecedented steps to modernize and improve trading practices and negotiate freer, […]

Investigate Midwest published an article stating that The Trump administration on Monday began the second round of direct payments to U.S. farmers through the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program. Farmers have likely been more harmed by Trump than helped, studies found. Many critics see the payments as little more than buying votes. Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber said, “He took actions […]

Reason Online published an article on subsidies, trade wars, and negotiations.  In early 2018, President Donald Trump’s top trade adviser appeared on Fox Business Network to reassure Americans that other countries wouldn’t retaliate against new tariffs proposed by the White House. He was wrong. Retaliation from several countries, but especially from China, caused exports of American agricultural goods to plummet in […]

Council on Foreign Relations published an article describing how global food insecurity has surged amid the coronavirus pandemic, threatening to worsen humanitarian crises and spur further mass migration. The article looked at various regions throughout the world and what challenges they might face. Even if economies recover in 2021, experts say severe food insecurity will persist, pressing […]

Bistandsaktuelt published an article on social protection in the form of cash payments to help prevent millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa from being thrown into extreme poverty because of the corona pandemic.  Deputy Division Director (PHN) and Senior Research Fellow Dan Gilligan states, “We are holding our breath to see if it will really explode in a large number of countries in […]

Smart Farmer Kenya published an article on the potential of boosting Kenyan farmer’s income by exporting avocados to high-value European Markets. Kenya is the third-largest producer of avocados, with about 70 percent of the produce coming from small-scale farmers. Research Fellow Mulubrhan Amare states, “International agricultural markets offer a higher price, and also demand higher quality than the local market. […]

Relief Web published a summary of the recent Myanmar surveys. The IFPRI surveys provide evidence that Myanmar is one of the few developing countries that the World Bank (2020) forecasts will not go into recession in 2020 – a very modest expansion of just 0.87 percent is forecast. A Social Accounting Matrix multiplier analysis by IFPRI projected a 0.50 percent expansion under a […]

Enquête (Senegal) published an article stating that governments and decisionmakers are committed to giving priority to the processes of development and implementation of land policy in our countries and to ensure that land laws allow equitable access to land and land resources for all land users, including young people and vulnerable groups. One project, on the monitoring and evaluation of […]