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Dhaka Tribune reported on the launch of IFPRI’s 2020 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR). The Report highlights the central role that inclusive food systems play in meeting global goals to end poverty, hunger, and malnutrition, and offers recommendations for making food systems more inclusive for four marginalized groups – smallholders, women, youth, and conflict-affected people. Director General Johan Swinnen stated, “Food […]

Food Tank published a list of how experts in food systems are looking at what is next and how to work within the challenges to create healthy food systems. Senior Research Fellow Ruben Echeverria said, “One of the forgotten links in all these food systems, connections between agriculture, nutrition, and health, is that you need knowledge. You need to do some […]

Sowetan Live published an article about how the continent has flocked together to manage the health crisis, but it remains to be seen if this will translate to preventing a food crisis. Over the past 15 years, several African countries have reduced malnutrition significantly. Some by as much as 50%, according to IFPRI. However, Covid-19 threatens to reverse […]

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 […]