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IT Business Direct (Africa) reported on findings from the Malabo Montpellier (MaMo) Panel on renewable energy and new technologies in Africa. Director of IFPRI’s Africa Region and co-chair of the Panel Ousmane Badiane said, “As demand for food continues to grow globally, universal access to energy will become an urgent necessity, both for the production, […]

Washington Post reported on the latest trade deal negotiations between the United States and China. The U.S. belief is that China will buy $40 billion to $50 billion in U.S. agricultural products annually — more than double the level in 2017 ($19.6 billion). Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber stated Chinese soybean imports are down 10 percent from […]

Successful Farming reported on the US-China trade negotiations. The White House says the agreement calls for “substantial purchases” of farm exports. Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber expressed doubt about forecasts leaping overnight to the $40-billion-a-year level. “Getting back to 2017 levels is not trivial after the past 2 years of poor exports. Hopefully, there are […]

Trade for Development News published an op-ed by Senior Research Fellow David Laborde on trade tensions and what to expect. Laborde said, “In order to understand the dilemma around food security, we have to think on the one hand that it’s about people’s income and on the other hand, it’s how international markets and food […]

WHO reported on the Lancet journal article, Double-duty actions: Seizing programme and policy opportunities to address malnutrition in all its forms, by Corinna Hawkes, IFPRI Division Director Marie Ruel and coauthors explain key findings including exposure to undernutrition early in life followed by becoming overweight from childhood onwards increases the risk of a range of non-communicable […]

The Economist reported on the recent progress of the US-China trade negotiations which have set out targets for categories of commodities so that Chinese agricultural purchases from America would rise o at least $40bn in 2020 and 2021. But those figures would be kept secret, in case they had an impact on markets. Senior Research […]

Financial Times (London) reported on the U.S.-China trade negotiations. United States claims that China will purchase US$40 billion in U.S. agricultural goods were greeted with skepticism. Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber said silence on China’s commitments by individual commodity could prove confusing to farmers deciding what to plant. “The details still remain very obscure.”

VoxDev (USA) published an article by Senior Research Fellows Kalle Hirvonen and Derek Headey along with colleagues based on their study, Affordability of the EAT–Lancet  Reference Diet: A Global Analysis, The study recommends several items to improve diets: raise real incomes of the poor; lower prices in low-income regions; and provide lower-cost, healthier ingredients at […]

Bloomberg reported on the latest phase of the US-China trade negotiations. Donald Trump says China will spend $50 billion a year for U.S. farm products as part of a “phase one” trade deal between the countries. “I have been very skeptical,” said Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber. “How would they do it?”

A national nutrition conference to present new research for ending malnutrition through the National Food and Nutrition Policy. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Despite progress, many children in Ethiopia remain stunted, diet diversity continues to pose a challenge, and food systems are changing rapidly. To support the implementation of Ethiopia’s National Food and Nutrition Policy (NFNP), […]