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In a CNBC Africa interview, Ousmane Badiane discusses the 2019 Malabo Montpelier Forum: Digitalization in African Agriculture & how governments can facilitate transformative digital services.

Devex reported on the World Food Programme’s partial suspension of food aid in Yemen due to disagreement over the use of biometric data to track distribution. Associate Research Fellow Sikandra Kurdi was quoted in the article saying that using biometrics makes sense in a context like Yemen where many people lack national identification cards that […]

India’s The Wire published an opinion piece by Purnima Menon, in which she argued that stopping Muzaffarpur child deaths will require a gender-sensitive social analysis. Menon described the situation in Muzzafarpur as one emblematic of undernutrition issues in India and argued that the families doing seasonal work in the litchi orders will continue to be most affected […]

India’s Scroll.in reported on the state of child malnutrition in India, with an emphasis on mothers’ educational attainment as a key determinant of their children’s diets. The article cited a study by Research Fellow Phuong Hong Nguyen, Senior Research Fellows Derek Headey and Purnima Menon and Director of the Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division (PHND) Marie Ruel that recommended […]

In a new op-ed, IFPRI researchers argue that a prompt Free Trade Agreement with the BIMSTEC bloc could improve food security and build resilience in the region. (Business Standard)

Recent findings from an IFPRI survey on food consumption in Papua New Guinea found poor households were not getting enough food. Researcher Emily Schmidt calls for increased access to education to improve rural families' predicaments.

China Science Daily reported on IFPRI Senior Research Fellow Liangzhi You’s call for more partnerships between international agricultural research organizations—including IFPRI—to build partnerships with China in a recent blog. The article also noted one such partnership at the Macro Agricultural Research Institute (MARI), an international interdisciplinary research institute established jointly by IFPRI and Huazhong Agricultural […]

Bangladesh’s Daily Prothom Alo reported on the finding that the country’s farmers take out higher-interest loans from the private sector because few low-interest government loans are available. The article drew from a 2015 IFPRI assessment quoting Akhter Ahmed, who said farmers take out loans to buy agricultural inputs, so if rates were lowered, production costs would go […]

CNBC reported on President Donald Trump’s statement that Mexico could avoid tariffs by purchasing more US agricultural goods. The article quoted Joseph Glauber, who called into question the logic of President Trump’s statement, given that Mexico’s private importers—not the government—do the majority of this purchasing. He pointed out that a number of US producers would […]

Tashkent: To meet growing demand for employment in rural areas and improve food security, Uzbekistan needs to strengthen the role of the private sector in its economy by accelerating reforms, improving institutional framework, and exploring opportunities for regional integration in Central Asia, according to the 2019 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) launched today by the […]