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Green Biz published a blogpost about the hunger and climate crises exacerbated by COVID-19. According to IFPRI, climate change could depress global crop yields up to 30 percent by 2050, putting about 50 million more people at risk of undernourishment, Research Institute produced for the Global Commission on Adaptation. The global food system is under threat, and what we […]

ReliefWeb highlighted the latest report for maize in Malawi. Retail maize prices decreased slightly during August 2020; prices in the South were higher than in the Centre and North; ADMARC sales were reported in 11 of the 26 markets monitored; and retail maize prices in Malawi were lower than in most eastern African markets. The Monthly Maize Market Reports are […]

Welternaehrung (Welthungerhilfe [Germany]) published an op-ed by Athur Mabiso and Senior Research Fellow Rui Benfica. The authors write that there are two sides of the coin regarding youth in Africa.  Africa has the youngest and fastest growing population in the world. The average age south of the Sahara is 18.3 years, in Asia it is 30 years. The number of young people […]

Farm Progress published an article on the Trump administration farmers’ subsidies. President Donald Trump has consistently said he’ll stand up for farmers and won’t let other countries wrongly target U.S. agriculture, but is the retaliatory response — and the actions that set off the tariffs in the first place — causing more harm than good? All of the […]

The New Nation (Bangladesh) published an article on the worldwide unprecedented social and economic crisis triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic poses grave risks to the nutritional status and thus threats survival of the young children of low-income and middle-income households. The economic, food, and health systems disruptions resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic are expected to continue to […]

Shillong Times published an article on the importance of healthy diets during the COVID-19 pandemic. The article referenced the IFPRI/A4NH study, “A comparison of the Indian diet with the EAT-Lancet reference diet,” co-authored by A4NH’s Manika Sharma and Devesh Roy with IFPRI’s Avinash Kishore, and Kuhu Joshi that found that food consumed by people in the country are not nutritious enough. It was found that there is excess consumption of […]

Observatorio Detrabajadore published an article on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the agri-food sector in Venezuela. The pandemic has revealed an inequality in that almost a third of total mortality at the regional level is due to non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and cancer (lethal risk conditions before the Covid-19) due to aging, globalization, urbanization and the increase in […]

Successful Farming reported on the China trade promises. China is stepping up its purchases of U.S. farm exports, but it will not meet the ambitious sales goals of the “phase one” agreement that de-escalated the Sino-U.S. trade war, said USDA data on Wednesday. Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber said, “You’re not going to make it. The calendar year falls […]

Boulder City Review published an article that referenced the results from the Science Magazine journal article, COVID-19 risks to global food security by IFPRI researchers David Laborde, Will Martin, Johan Swinnen, and Rob Vos. Availability, access, utilization, and stability are the four pillars of food security. The study found that food markets and suppliers continue to face ongoing disruptions from labor shortages and food demand shifts due […]

MSN (India published an article that stated PM Narendra Modi has announced a panel to fight malnutrition in young women and ensure they get married at the right age. How are malnutrition and early marriage linked? Senior Research Fellow Purnima Menon said, “poverty, limited access to education and economic prospects, and security concerns are the known reasons for early marriage. […]