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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 […]

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 […]