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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 […]

My Joy (Ghana) published an article that after a decade of tremendous growth in production, Ghana’s tilapia farmers have been hit with severe setbacks in the last two years and those setbacks are due to disease.  Poor biosecurity measures are exposing most farms to this tragedy.  Senior Research Fellow  and project lead on the TiSeed, Catherine Ragasa says, “a lot […]

World Bank Blogs published an article stating that Machu Picchu is one of the seven wonders of the modern world. However, another phenomenon has pulled public health experts and scientists, including World Bank experts, to Peru – that of childhood stunting. One project trying to create solutions is the Gates Ventures and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in partnership with […]

Financial Express (India) published an op-ed on former division director (South Asia Office) P K. Joshi and Arabinda K. Padhee. The authors write that agri-marketing reforms have been described as key to harnessing the untapped potential of the farm sector. With enhanced agricultural production and a resultant ‘marketable surplus’ from an increasing number of farm households over the […]