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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 […]

Enterprise published an article on the official figures being used by the government. Egypt has taken the data from Impact of COVID-19 on the Egyptian economy: Economic sectors, jobs, and households. The IFPRI team’s COVID-19 multiplier impact estimate for Egypt Q4 (April to June) together with the Ministry of Planning with their Q1-3 estimates presented preliminary official figures (MENA Policy note 6, Impact of […]

Enterprise published an article on the official figures being used by the government. Egypt has taken the data from Impact of COVID-19 on the Egyptian economy: Economic sectors, jobs, and households. The IFPRI team’s COVID-19 multiplier impact estimate for Egypt Q4 (April to June) together with the Ministry of Planning with their Q1-3 estimates presented […]

The News Chronicle (Nigeria) published an article on the pathway to achieving food security in sub-Saharan Africa, a debate currently being revived following the effect of the rampaging COVID-19 pandemic on food security. dependency on international trade is risky as the international food commodity market is thin with fewer sellers. The 2011 Global Food Policy Report says only five countries […]