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Cenadin, AC reported on current food systems are failing consumers and the necessity to convert our healthy food system, which allows the environmental sustainability of the planet and contributes to social equity. IFPRI’s Director of Latin America & the Caribbean Eugenio Díaz Bonilla highlighted the joint work with FAO. “Food systems are related to a huge number of issues, it […]

South China Morning Post reported on the US-China Phase One plan of the trade negotiations. Experts question if the agreement will work. Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber stated, “With a managed trade agreement like this, targets are presumably established, but I suspect that it will mean state trading companies like COFCO will be doing a lot of the buying.” […]

PressePortal reported on the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture. IFPRI Director General Johan Swinnen who attended the forum stated that African countries are getting better at meeting EU standards. “Diversification could significantly improve integration into world markets.” Republished in various outlets including FinanzNachrichten, Ad Hoc, BankKaufman, Nachriten-Heute.net 

Clarin (Argentina) published an article on what is needed in the future to feed populations while confronting climate change obstacles. IFPRI’s Global Food Policy Report 2019 was quoted regarding 2050 agricultural scenarios).

FutureEarth published an opinion blog by Deputy Division Director and Senior Research Fellow Claudia Ringler and coauthors on the impact of water stresses on food security. The authors outlined how reliable access to water influences agricultural development and food security in many ways. Expanding agricultural production in developing countries would reduce poverty while increasing food […]

Daily Trust (Nigeria) reported that for more than 60 years, Nigeria has been importing tractors yet less than 30 percent of farmers in the country have access to mechanization. The story cites an IFPRI study in which Senior Research Fellow, Hiroyuki Takeshima finds government programs designed to bring in more tractors “are rarely effective, and government […]

BMJ Journals reported on the dangers and ways to prevent aflatoxin poisoning. The findings from two IFPRI studies were referenced in the article, the first by Research Fellows Vivian Hoffmann and Jef Leroy and Kelly Jones, The impact of reducing dietary aflatoxin exposure on child linear growth: a cluster randomised controlled trial in Kenya, and […]

Reuters reported on a new program training African scientists to be leaders in their field, with a focus on meeting the needs of women farmers in adapting to a warming climate. Research Fellow Katrin Glatzel explains, “As forest loss and climate change make resources scarcer, women have to go longer distances to gather fuel-wood, which […]

Daily News (Tanzania) profiled Senior Research Fellow Ephraim Nkonya. The profile highlights Tanzanian-born Nkonya’s years of work and research in agricultural development. The article also discusses his life and education from childhood to university, leading to his career.

Relief Web reported on the IFPRI Malawi Monthly Maize Market Report: December 2019. The Monthly Maize Market Report was 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. Republished in Nigeria News.