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As the impacts of COVID-19 spread across the globe, the virus threatens more than health systems worldwide. It also poses serious risks to food security; local businesses and national economies; and hard-fought progress by stakeholders at all levels towards the Sustainable Development Goals. The global response to the pandemic must be swift and science-based, harnessing […]

New Delhi: Compared to an influential diet for promoting human and planetary health, the diets of average Indians are considered unhealthy: comprising excess consumption of cereals but not enough consumption of proteins, fruits, and vegetables, according to a new study by researchers from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and CGIAR research program on […]

Afrik21 published an article writing that three civil society organizations (CSOs) in Burkina Faso working in partnership with the Netherlands Development Organization in Burkina Faso (SNV-BF) and IFPRI, three civil society organizations (CSOs) decided to conduct an environmental analysis of renewable energy (RE) in Burkina Faso. At the end of this study, the CSOs advocate for “improving the access of populations […]

Prokerala published an article on the new study,  A comparison of the Indian diet with the EAT-Lancet reference diet,.from the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH). One of the authors, A4NH Program Manager Manika Sharma stated, “The EAT-Lancet diet is not a silver bullet for the myriad nutrition and environmental challenges food systems currently present, but it does […]

Live Mint (India) published an article on the IFPRI study, A comparison of the Indian diet with the EAT-Lancet reference diet. The findings applied across all states and income levels, underline the challenges many Indians face in obtaining healthy diets. The study recommends increasing production of healthy crops and address malnutrition.

MaNews.com (Rwanda News Agency) published an article based on the framework of the implementation of the Voice for Change Partnership Project (V4CP) with the financial support of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs via SNV-RWANDA and IFPRI. The article states that the Covid-19 pandemic has had negative effects on the nutrition of households in Rwanda, especially the less […]

Farm Policy News reported on the Bloomberg article that  “China plans to accelerate purchases of American farm goods to comply with the phase one trade deal with the U.S. following talks in Hawaii this week. Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber’s tweet was quoted, ” To get back to 2017 levels is a reasonable target given current pace. But it won’t […]

Kapitalis (Tunisia) published an article stating that the latest study on COVID-19 and developing countries measures the impacts of COVID-19, particularly in terms of recession, poverty, and unemployment. The study is rather conservative in its estimates and minimalists in its explanations. IFPRI provided a study that contradicts the UNDP study. The IFPRI study, 2015 regionalized social accounting matrix for Tunisia: A […]

Kapitalis (Tunisia) published an article stating that the latest study on COVID-19 and developing countries measures the impacts of COVID-19, particularly in terms of recession, poverty, and unemployment. The study is rather conservative in its estimates and minimalist in its explanations. IFPRI provided a study that contradicts the UNDP study. The IFPRI study, 2015 regionalized […]

FinNewsAfrica (South Africa) published an article on grain prices in Malawi. of grain in Malawi have been lowering significantly owing to subdued demand amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and increased availability of the commodity across the country. IFPRI-Malawi data indicated that prices fell in 13 markets and stayed constant in four of 26 markets sampled. IFPRI Malawi rated retail maize prices in Malawi […]