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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? […]

GBC Ghana Online published an article on the African Agriculture Trade Monitor, referencing the report and quoting Senior Research Fellow Antoine Bouet who said, the poor and incomplete nature of African trade data is likely to affect the collection and analysis of information to show the impact of Covid-19 on agricultural trade on the continent. He added that official databases of […]

World Bank Blogs published an article stating that although Malawi produced abundant maize in the past years (along with other crops), food insecurity continues to linger. In 2018, 3.3 million Malawians were food insecure, 1.8 million in 2019, and 2.6 million anticipated in 2020. Food security needs to be understood from its basic parameters of availability, access, utilization, […]

Welt (Germany) published an article stating that “the human costs of Covid-19 are immense.” For the first time in over 20 years, the number of poor will grow again worldwide. Large portions of Asia and Africa are threatened by hunger and resulting death.  In April, IFPRI stated that 35 to 65 million people who could slide into absolute […]