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Easy Money (China) published an article on the release of IFPRI’s 2020 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) and its findings as they pertain to global and China’s food supply. The Report believes that keeping the strategic bottom line of “absolute food security and basic grain self-sufficiency” is the most fundamental competitiveness goal of China’s grain industry.  The Report also covers […]

Daily Star (Bangladesh) published an article on the government’s plan to buy food grains to shield the poor against hunger amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Senior Research Fellow and country representative in Bangladesh, Akhter Ahmed said the government should focus more on providing food for free instead of selling foodgrains at subsidized rates. This is because programs like OMS and FFP are prone […]

Sohu.com reported on reported on the Beijing launch of IFPRI’s 2020 Global Food Policy Report. Director General Johan Swinnen was quoted in the article. He stated that as the COVID-19 epidemic and its economic impact sweep across the world’s poorest regions, more people will fall into poverty and food crises. In a new scenario analysis, without intervention, by the end of 2020, more […]

Relief Web reported on the latest Malawi Monthly Maize Market, developed by researchers at IFPRI Malawi with the goal of providing clear and accurate information on the variation of daily maize prices in selected markets throughout Malawi. The reports are intended as a resource for those interested in maize markets in Malawi, namely producers, traders, consumers, or other agricultural […]

The Westerner published an article on the possibility of a COVID-19 virus and epidemic happening to crops. Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber states that we wouldn’t be thinking about a crop plague but for COVID-19. The impact on the health of farm labor and workers in the meatpacking plants rises to the top. Then there is the disruption of supply chains causing rising retail […]

Business Standard (India) published an article stating that economic recovery needs to be the government’s immediate concern or social issues could arise following the COVID-19 crisis and its impact on the livelihood of the poor. Director General Johan Swinnen was quoted, that IFPRI’s “analysis shows that almost 150 million people globally might fall into extreme poverty due to the COVID crisis […]

Fact Check reported on a claim made by US Presidential Candidate Joe Biden that farm bankruptcies increased last year “due largely to Trump’s unmitigated disaster of a tariff war.” Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber said it was impossible to know what caused the bankruptcies because so little information about those farm operations is publicly available. “I don’t think it […]

B&FT Online published an editorial on data produced by Burkina Faso. Data show West African traders of perishable produce and livestock have seen losses of 10 – 30% since health restrictions took effect, resulting in disruptions of transportation and closure of markets. According to the IFPRI blogpost, COVID-19 lockdowns threaten Africa’s vital informal urban food trade, by Senior Research Fellow Danielle […]

Business Standard published an op-ed by research fellow Anjani Kumar with co-authors, Shalander Kumar and Arabinda Kumar Padhee (ICRISAT) on the farm economy. Once the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown occurred, India’s general population took notice of migrant workers coming from outside of India to work and their particular challenges. Many workers will not return after the full re-opening of India. Some […]

Citizen TV (Kenya) published an article on the improvement of the environment. The earth is breathing again and its link to the ongoing global health emergency is no coincidence or stuff of fate. IFPRI’s 2020 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) was referenced. The article stated warnings from the GFPR of irreversible ecosystem losses should climate change, deforestation, land degradation and water pollution becomes the […]