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Yahoo India published an op-ed by Mamata Pradhan and Senior Research Fellow Devesh Roy on the next economic steps India should take to recover from the COVID-19 health crisis. Though many regions are creating rationing packages and other safety nets, the authors suggest that only when the markets are running, the safety nets would be […]

Devex published an article on how governments and the international development community must quickly mobilize efforts to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 on food and agriculture and, most importantly, to protect the food security of vulnerable people. IFPRI blog post, How much will global poverty increase because of COVID-19 by Division Director Rob Vos and Senior Research Fellows Will Martin and David Laborde, state that early projections indicate that even […]

Financial Express (India) published an op-ed by IFPRI researchers Smriti Verma and Anjani Kumar, and Arabinda Padhee. They discussed COVID-19 and government intervention through safety net packages. Fifty percent of the Indian population depends on the agriculture sector for its livelihood.  A good farm harvest, after all, will decide future strategy. At this unprecedented time, when both manufacturing and services might get severely […]

Fit and Munter.de (Germany) wrote an article on the spread of the coronavirus in poor countries in Africa and Asia is not just a health hazard. Sufficient food can no longer be grown and supply chains are interrupted. There is a risk of supply shortages and consequently hunger. Emeritus Research Fellow Shenggen Fan writes in his blog post, Preventing global food […]

The Hindu Business Line published an op-ed by IFPRI Researchers N Chandra Sekhara Rao and Anjani Kumar on how countries are beginning to see the disruptions in the food value chains.   Urban areas are experiencing panic buying. Food chain disruptions will be felt with a lag as production gets affected with altering consumption patterns and lowered demand due to infrequent grocery shopping, […]

El Diario (Spain) published an article on food prices and possible disruptions due to COVID-19. Senior Research Fellow David Laborde commented that for now there have been few disruptions (the limitation of Vietnam’s rice exports or the operational difficulties in markets such as fish and fruit or vegetable markets). 

Radio Free Asia (Korea) reported on the COVID-19 emergency and the impact on food security. Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber stated that “free exports to Asia were limited due to short export restrictions in each country, and the world’s grain inventory was richer than in the past food crisis of 2007-2008. It is more important that other countries do not chain export restrictions.” 

Omvarlden (Sweden) published an article on the risk of food shortages when trade stops due to the COVID-19 health crisis. The article quoted the IFPRI blog, COVID-19: Trade restrictions are worst possible response to safeguard food security by Senior Research Fellows Joseph Glauber, David Laborde, Will Martin, and Division Director Rob Vos, stating there is no shortage of food in the world and there are larger stocks of staple […]

Yahoo India published an op-ed by Mamata Pradhan and Senior Research Fellow Devesh Roy on the next economic steps India should take to recover from the COVID-19 health crisis. Though many regions are creating rationing packages and other safety nets, the authors suggest that only when the markets are running, the safety nets would be useful. (Reach 4.8M). Republished in Financial Express.

Financial Express (India) published an op-ed by IFPRI researchers Avinash Kishore and Manavi Gupta who state that while rural India is poorer than its urban counterpart, in the COVID-19 crisis, it is the urban poor who are far more vulnerable with less social and government support. India’s 21-day lockdown is a significantly bigger shock to the economy and will hurt urban families far more.