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Climate Home News published an article on how the COVID-19 health crisis has heightened inequities of food availability and nutrition and that the upcoming 2021 Food System Summit aims to boost resilience and sustainability. The article quotes evidence from IFPRI’s COVID-19 Food Trade Policy Tracker that showed 21 countries that have responded to the pandemic with export restrictions. 

The Clarin (Argentina) published an article stating that Argentina entered quarantine with 35.5% of its population submerged in poverty. COVID-19 has increased poverty. For Head of Latin America and the Caribbean Program Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla questions what comes next. “The IMF foresees a rapid recovery; other economists believe that it will be slower and the most pessimistic think that we will be in a […]

Ethical Corp published an article on food insecurity and COVID-19. In times of crisis, the world’s poorest are likely to run out of food, and – at the extreme – to go for days without eating, putting health and wellbeing at risk. IFPRI has undertaken studies on the global poverty increase likely to arise from Covid-19 (See blog post, Poverty and food insecurity […]

Relief Web published the April report for the Maize Market.  Providing maize price information in markets throughout the country is a critical first step to understanding and improving food security in Malawi. Developed by IFPRI-Malawi researchers 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 […]

Bisniss (Indonesia) reported on food export restrictions. The article quoted IFPRI research that about half of at least 17 countries that seek to limit exports to secure local supplies, no longer implement or relax restrictions. But groups that relaxed export restrictions included several major wheat producers, such as Ukraine and Romania. Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber said, after reassuring that global supplies were […]

ReliefWeb published an article on concerns about the longer-term health of the subregion’s food systems –involving farmers, fishers, laborers, drivers, cold storage, food processors, retailers, and consumers–in the midst of battling the COVID-19 pandemic.  Both FAO and IFPRI have projected sufficient rice stocks for the rest of 2020 in the wider Asia-Pacific region, the current measures needed to […]

SABC News interviewed EPTD Director Channing Arndt on the South Africa Scheme, ‘Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED)’ which has released an initial analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on the South African economy. Arndt stated that “It would be difficult for the lockdown to go on for months. The flow of goods and services would have slowed by one-third. The longer the lockdown goes, the more […]

Pig333.com (Spain) published a piece on IFPRI’s COVID-19 Food Trade Policy Tracker, developed by AMIS Secretariat colleagues in IFPRI, is updated twice daily and provides information about restrictions in food trade and assesses their impacts for food availability

Biz Community published an article on recommendations from the 2019 Global Food Policy Report. The Report’s lead author and IFPRI Director General Johan Swinnen, says that control measures such as limited interactions that countries have been implementing since the WHO declared Covid-19 a global pandemic on 11 March are interfering with economic activities worldwide. Research Scientist and IFPRI Chief of Staff Rajul […]

The Conversation published an op-ed by Senior Research Fellows Kalle Hirvonen and Derek Headey. The op-ed encourages and explains the importance of eating fruits and vegetables; however, the problem is fruits and vegetables are often too expensive and unaffordable for most. In the Ethiopian study, the average household would have to spend more than 10% of their income to meet the international […]