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Climate crisis may undo last century’s achievement in curbing extreme hunger, writes Down to Earth (India).   “Besides the conflicts, climatic events and rising food prices have played a major role in pushing this population into this desperate situation. Food price rise has massive impacts. On average, “a 5 percent increase in the real price of food […]

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has projected that farmers should expect to pay as much as K37 000 to buy one bag of fertilizer under the Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP) in the 2023/24 farming season. The projection means the government will have to spend K238 billion on AIP to subsidize 1.7 million farming […]

The Nation (Nigeria), in a report about forecasts of severe food shortages due to shocks on food systems, writes that several multi-stakeholder dialogues have been convened to facilitate the sharing of good practices, innovations, and advocate actions to ensure smallholder farmers have access to fertilizer to safeguard their food and nutrition security. “The International Food Policy Research Institute […]

Outlook India cites reports that “the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a press release stating that the maximum temperatures are likely to be above normal by three to five degrees over much of India’s Northwest, Central, and Western parts in March.  IFPRI’s 2022 Global Food Policy Report cautioned that 90 million Indians might be pushed towards hunger […]

The world is currently facing a massive food crisis that some have described as the worst since World War II, writes Globe Echo (UK). “The International Food Policy Research Institute warns that food prices will continue to rise this year, unless there is significant debt relief and support from the international community”. “As the Russian war […]

“Most EU countries want to counter the narrative, heralded by Russia, that EU sanctions are preventing food and fertilizers from reaching food-insecure countries,” writes POLITICO in an article discussing fertilizer supply issues to developing countries from Russia and Belarus. The publication quotes IFPRI’s senior research fellow Joseph Glauber who said that, despite the doomsday predictions, “there is […]

“AI is changing the way we work and live. But with climate change impacting seasonal temperatures and rainfalls around the world, can it help make food production more sustainable?” asks The Climate Question podcast, BBC (UK). Claudia Ringler, Deputy Director of the Environment and Production and Technology Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute was interviewed […]

“Maharashtra’s onion farmers, the star producers of India’s perennial kitchen staple, are staring at huge losses. This is likely to have a serious impact on onion harvest going ahead,” writes Money Control in a story on onion prices. Farmers are demanding the lifting of the ban on onion exports. There have also been reports of […]

“Diplomats are racing against time to negotiate a full extension of the Black Sea Grain Initiative before it expires on Saturday, a major test for the rare wartime agreement that helped stabilize global food prices after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,” writes Foreign Policy. “When it comes to extending the deal, “the longer the better,” said Joseph […]

Mirage writes in a piece on agriculture production that a study, discovered one seemingly surefire way of improving conservation and production–include more women in decisionmaking. Their involvement boosted cooperation between farmers on environmental issues and increased output. The results are published in the journal, Communications Earth & Environment.   Wei Zhang, a senior research fellow at IFPRI […]