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CBS News Chicago interviewed Rob Vos, Director of IFPRI’s Markets, Trade, and Institutions division for an episode investigating how supply chain problems, COVID concerns, and inflation affect grocery prices in the US. “Price on the international markets have been dropping over the past few months. Now they’re coming down in part because of the better prospect of harvest, […]

Farmers in the Nile Delta are racing to adapt to encroaching salinity, writes Reuters in a report from COP27. The Nile Delta, a densely populated and fertile triangle of green that fans out towards the sea north of Cairo, accounts for more than a third of Egypt’s agricultural land. One farmer says, “If you leave […]

The Washington Post discusses the renewal of the Black Sea grain deal between Russia and Ukraine, announced on November 17, and what it means to the involved parties and the global community. The article quotes IFPRI’s analysis stating that before the war, Ukraine shipped about 75 percent of its agricultural exports through Black Sea ports. […]

The Conversation published a story focusing on the devastating 2022 floods in Pakistan which affected 33 million people, with over 2 million homes destroyed and over 8 million people displaced in a region which already struggles with high rates of malnutrition. This is not the first time Pakistan has been devastated by flooding. When floods […]

Food Ingredients First reports on how building upon research that supports plant-based diets and how they can dramatically reduce environmental impacts, may also help improve resilience in terms of these nations’ capacity to recover from food insecurity driven by the Russia-Ukraine conflict. This past year has been turbulent in terms of food supply and food […]

Negotiators from Ukraine and Russia extended the Black Sea Grain Initiative, according to a story in Respekt. The article reported that among other consequences, a possible end to the grain deal would further push prices higher. The grain agreement was signed in July, and in the following months, Ukraine exported eleven million tons of agricultural […]

Inquirer published an early analysis of events at COP27. It writes that more than 50 civil society organizations have called on the country’s delegation to the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP27) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to prioritize agroecology as an adaptive strategy in the face of […]

In an analysis of the new grain agreement, WRP (Wtadomosci Rolnicze Polska, Poland) writes that “Grain Agreement 2.0” (a renewed and extended agreement of the Black Sea Grain Initiative) should help farmers with fertilizer prices. Russia wants to see an easing of sanctions on Russian grain products and fertilizers. Sanctions aren’t the only sticking point, […]

Comprehensive environmental, social, and corporate governance reporting has begun to drive corporate transformation around the world reports EIN News (UK) in a story discussing new case studies from the World Economic Forum.  The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) suggested the current business-as-usual water management practices and levels of water productivity will put at risk […]

Poor-quality diets are associated with all forms of malnutrition-including undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, and overweight and obesity as well as around 1.1 million premature adult deaths each year. Dhaka Tribune reports on the launch of CGIAR’s Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiFT). This initiative will work closely with local, national, regional, and […]