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The New Humanitarian interviewed Valeria Piñeiro, IFPRI’s acting head for Latin America, for the article about the worsening situation with hunger and poverty in Argentina. Piñeiro is asking the international community not to neglect Argentina and Latin America. In the decade up to 2015, the region was hailed for outperforming others in reducing hunger and poverty, but […]

The Nation (Malawi) writes in an article that the ever-rising maize prices in the country have put low-income earners in a tight corner as they have to balance how to bring food on the table from K50 000 monthly income. The absence of Admarc [Agricultural Development and Market Corporation] markets has created a huge gap […]

A farmer is often the first person in the supply chain to be impacted by climate change and their livelihood directly depends on climate writes Down to Earth in an article. This affects the country’s overall agricultural output and also adds to food inflation. High food prices could result in people decreasing consumption. The International […]

Energy Monitor writes in a report that climate change is making hurricanes, flooding, and other big natural disasters more frequent and more severe. There is growing acknowledgment that the traditional humanitarian response to these events is no longer fit for purpose. Many in the aid sector are pushing the idea of acting earlier, leveraging technological […]

Note: This press release is a version of the original statement published by The Lancet. It includes additional quotes from Purnima Menon, Senior Director for Food and Nutrition Policy, CGIAR, and Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI, who is a co-author of The Lancet 2023 Series on Breastfeeding, launched today. Formula milk marketing tactics are exploitative, and regulations […]

Agri-Pulse published an article stating USDA’s latest farm income forecast could provide some ammunition to farm groups and their allies in Congress who argue that soaring production costs are eating into farm earnings while producers have little chance of seeing payments from commodity programs.  Joseph Glauber, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy […]

In an op-ed on how climate change has affected and will continue to affect crops (grains, pulses, rice, etc.) in several regions of India, Hindu Tamil explained that paddy grains start sprouting early, crops get waterlogged, and depressions in the Bay of Bengal affect fishermen and the salt industry. The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) […]

According to a new study released by the FAO Investment Centre and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), there is growing evidence that when you invest in farmers, especially the youth in farming, their capacity and motivation to produce food profitably and sustainably increases, writes Farmers Review Africa in a piece on capacity strengthening. […]

Food executives are warning of more price hikes to come, even as commodities like palm oil and dairy decline writes Bloomberg in an article on food prices. Diplomats talk of the worst food crisis since World War II, with parts of Africa on the brink of famine.   This striking dissonance underscores the significant time lag […]

Live Mint writes in a piece that the Indian government on Friday told Parliament that ₹2.24 lakh crore has gone directly into the accounts of 11.5 crore farmers across the country under PM Kisan Samman Nidhi. “The funds disbursed under the initiative have acted as a catalyst in rural economic growth. PM KISAN is a […]