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Successful Farming published an article explaining new subsidies from the Trump administration. The administration is showering U.S. agriculture with the largest farm supports ever, an estimated $37 billion, chiefly through stopgap programs to mitigate the impact of the pandemic.  As a result, farm income in 2020 would be the highest in seven years, not counting an additional $14 billion in […]

Daily Star (Bangladesh) published an article on how Prolonged and multiple monsoon floods have disrupted cultivation of Aman paddy, which provides around 36 percent of total rice production in the country. Senior Research Fellow and Country Representative Akhter Ahmed stated, “Aman is our second largest staple crop. It covers around 36 percent of our total rice production. But this year many farmers […]

New York Times published an article  on the findings from the study, Evaluation of linear growth at higher altitudes in the journal, Jama Pediatrics. Living at high altitudes may be associated with giving birth to smaller babies who grow more slowly through childhood. Researchers studied 964,299 children in 59 low- and middle-income countries in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Caribbean and Latin America. Among them, […]

Financial Times reported that farmers in the US are in line for record handouts from Washington this year, sparking accusations that Donald Trump is trying to buy the agricultural vote ahead of the November election. China’s imports of farm goods covered by the trade deal were $7.bn at the end of July. Still Beijing and Washington reached […]

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 […]