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Voice of America (Ukraine) published an article stating, Economic decline, deteriorating health care, rising domestic violence – the coronavirus pandemic is multiplying a number of other important problems in the world. As the harvest season approaches, experts point to a new threat – mass famine in Africa and Asia. According to IFPRI with each percent of the global […]

The United States Senate Committee on Finance posted the video of the trade hearing which featured Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber. Glauber’s testimony can be heard beginning at 41:44. To read his full testimony please see his statement, The current state of agricultural trade and the World Trade Organization. 

Researcher Joseph Glauber testifies that the challenges of meeting future food needs will require a concerted effort from governments to improve the functioning of food and agricultural markets. 

ABC News reported on how a food crisis and malnutrition could lead to greater child deaths during the pandemic. Impacts of COVID-19 on childhood malnutrition and nutrition-related mortality, published in The Lancet, warns that the “unprecedented global social and economic crisis” means 6.7 million more children could suffer from ‘wasting’ — a severe form of malnutrition – in low […]

Investor Indonesia published an article stating the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic has raised concerns in the community about food availability in Indonesia. Although the Covid-19 outbreak has not yet disappeared, food distribution and distribution activities must continue. Indonesian Food Technology International Institute for Life Sciences (i3L) lecturer Rayyane Mazaya Syifa said the pandemic did indeed have an impact, as predicted […]

Tribune News (Indonesia) published an article on food security and how Indonesia might deal with COVID-19’s impact on the food supply. IFPRI and other international development organizations write that the Covid-19 pandemic can lead to new food crises affecting the food security of a country, especially poor and developing countries. Also published in Suara.com, jpnn.com, kontan.co.id, Swa, and other major media outlets.   

Manitoba Co-Operator (Canada) published an article on global trade. A recent virtual summit focusing on managing agricultural trade in an increasingly chaotic world focused largely on recent actions taken by the United States. Participant in the summit and Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber said the U.S. decision to effectively render the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO) useless by not […]

Jung Welt (Germany) published an article presenting major findings from a study featured in The Lancet. The study, Impacts of COVID-19 on childhood malnutrition and nutrition-related mortality by Senior Research Fellow Derek Headey and colleagues found that due to the devastating consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, almost 180,000 children under the age of five are also at starvation this year. The researchers analyzed various scenarios […]

Spiegel Online (Germany) published an article on mortality trends due to COVID-19. According to an IFPRI study, that appears in the Lancet, Impacts of COVID-19 on childhood malnutrition and nutrition-related mortality, due to the devastating consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, almost 180,000 children under the age of five are also at starvation this year. Senior Research Fellow Derek Headey and colleagues analyzed various scenarios […]

The Daily Star reported on the current state of aquaculture in Bangladesh. Over the last two decades, aquaculture expanded on a massive scale and pulled more than 20 lakh people out of poverty between 2000 and 2010, according to a study and book by IFPRI, The making of a blue revolution in Bangladesh: Enablers, impacts, and the path ahead for […]