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Lite Rock 97.3 reported on a new report by IFPRI, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and Cornell University, as part of the Ceres2030: Sustainable Solutions to End Hunger project. Experts at Cornell say $10 billion is needed to stave off a potential worldwide hunger crisis caused by the pandemic and IFPRI states there’s an urgent need for additional […]

Financial Express published an op-ed by Senior Research Fellow Smriti Verma. She states that the coronavirus-induced lockdown in India created significant difficulties for the migrant, informal, and daily wage workers who became desperate to return home. MSMEs also suffered a setback from the lockdown—the over 63 million unincorporated non-agricultural enterprises engage over 111 million workers. Against this backdrop came […]

Medium (USA) published an article from “The Good Men Project” about the Eat-Lancet diet. The article referenced the study Affordability of the EAT–Lancet reference diet: A global analysis by Senior Research Fellows Kalle Hirvonen and Derek Headey, with Yan Bai and William Masters that found variations in food prices around the world may help explain regional differences in malnutrition and obesity, with poorer […]

Outlook Poshan published an article on cheche, the name for daycare in India. One area’s cheche is called Mamata Gharas. An IFPRI study that took place in Odisha has made significant progress in reducing child undernutrition. According to an IFPRI report, Odisha had better nutrition outcomes, such as stunting levels, and performed better in terms of immediate determinants than wealthier […]

Yahoo News reported on recent research from IFPRI, Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and Cornell University that stated, an additional $10 billion is needed “urgently” to prevent millions more people becoming food insecure as a result of Covid-19. Senior Research Fellow and co-Director of the Ceres2030: Sustainable Solutions to End Hunger project, David Laborde said, “Even before Covid-19, global efforts to […]

The Citizen (Tanzania) published an article on wheat imports and exports and Tanzania’s need to increase domestic production to meet food consumption requirements in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to IFPRI, only five countries supply 63 percent of the world’s wheat exports. Disruptions in the global supply chain could significantly impact Africa’s food security given price spikes

All Africa published a press release stating an additional US$10 billion is urgently needed to prevent millions more people becoming food insecure as a result of COVID-19, according to a new report by the IFPRI, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and Cornell University, as part of the Ceres2030: Sustainable Solutions to End Hunger project. Senior Research Fellow David Laborde and co-Director of […]

Nutrition Insight published an article on ending hunger. Global hunger rates are on the rise, despite the UN’s aim to achieve SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) by 2030. This is the primary concern raised in the 2020 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report. A joint project by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), IFPRI, and […]

Business Day (Nigeria) published an article stating shocks from the COVID-19 pandemic have hit Nigeria in a time when its absorbers are best defined as weak. One way will be to lessen the COVID-19 induced pressures on the Nigeria agricultural sector. IFPRI research shows the agriculture sector contracted by -14 percent in April/May 2020. Export crops such as […]

Japan Times published an article on the impact of COVID-19 on hunger and malnutrition globally. Hunger and malnourishment are increasing around the world as the coronavirus crisis pushes more people into poverty and limits access to healthy diets, according to the United Nations. At the same time, obesity has been on the rise as healthy foods remain out […]