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CSIS published an op-ed by Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber on the WTO. Global agricultural trade has seen tremendous growth since the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995. Since 1995, global agricultural exports have more than tripled in value and more than doubled in volume, exceeding $1.8 trillion in 2018. Through the leadership of the United States […]

IDFA (International Dairy Foods Association) published its first podcast on focus on how the COVID-19 pandemic has helped stir up unprecedented volatility, while exposing government’s invisible hand (or perhaps just it’s thumb, resting on the scales of the market) during the crisis. In the podcast Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber breaks down the federal government’s intervention in food and […]

Prothom Alo reported on the upcoming onion season. Farmers will start onion cultivation in the country within a month. Murikata (early variety) onions will start to appear in the market in mid-December. However, this onion cannot be stored. Onions produced from seeds will be harvested in March. The farmers can increase production if they get a good […]

El Pais published an article on the prediction of increased hunger following behind the COVID-19 health crisis. Children, the starkest face of hunger on the African continent has also been the victim of an increasingly present phenomenon: emaciation. Senior Research Fellow Derek Headey states that the pandemic resulted in 6.7 million children under the age of five affected by this […]

Newsbreak (Bloomberg Opinion) wrote that — Covid-19 the disease has mostly spared children’s lives, but it is widely expected that the measures taken to slow its spread and the economic dislocation that has followed in its wake will have all sorts of negative consequences for them.  IFPRI and Johns Hopkins researchers found that COVID-related malnutrition would claim the […]

Baidu.com (China) published an article on the Smart Agriculture Innovation Team of the Institute of Agricultural Resources and Agricultural Regional Planning of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences cooperated with IFPRI, the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and other units for 3 years. They developed and shared a new phase of global high-precision cultivated land distribution […]

The Borgen Project published a blogpost on the resilience of food supply chains amidst COVID-19, the potential to fight poverty, how new innovations brought on by the necessity to combat the harm of COVID-19 is an opportunity for long-term poverty alleviation (see IFPRI blogpost, COVID-19 and the promise of food system innovation). In the blogpost, Corinna Hawkes writes, “During […]

The Print (India) published an article on how the Modi govt’s nod to field trials of two brinjal varieties comes after years of delayed decisions, leaving farmers to deal with daily risks of agriculture. Whereas the projects failed in India, Bangladesh picked up where India left off.  IFPRI, together with the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), carried out […]

BNN Bloomberg published an article that working the land can be a dangerous occupation because of longstanding religious and ethnic tensions and, more recently, organized crime. That’s as farmers already were having to contend with flooding or drought. It’s all now hitting agriculture just when Nigeria needs it most. Warming temperatures have also turned some once green northern […]

Science Blog (Horizon Magazine Blog) published an article that discussed food justice. Horizon asked five food experts and activists what their top priority is for achieving food justice – ensuring that everyone on the planet has access to affordable, sustainable, healthy food. Director General, Johan Swinnen said that since Covid-19 shocked the food system and accelerated digital changes, “to benefit […]