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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 […]

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 […]