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IFPRI’s research fellows Kalyani Raghunathan and Derek Headey, in an op-ed in Code Blue (Malaysia), focus on India’s problem of malnutrition, which includes under- and over-nutrition simultaneously. The authors discuss both the implications and policy recommendations to improve access to affordable healthy diets in the country. “Diet quality, already alarmingly bad, is only likely to have deteriorated in […]

Michigan Ag Connection published a story on the importance of mentors in agriculture research and international development fields. The Structural Transformation of African and Asian Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAAARS+) fellows visited the MSU campus and participated in training interactions and met with mentors. One mentor, Rui Benfica, grew up in a developing country and […]

Industry Update, in a story about UN efforts to improve Russian fertilizer exports, quotes IFPRI’s senior research fellow Joseph Glauber who said that Russian exports of products such as urea and potash have declined, but not as much as ammonia. Originally published on AgriPulse.

The Oxford Student published an article on the importance of COP27’s agreements around climate finance, especially pertaining to the African continent. The article cites IFPRI’s publication by Ringler et. al (2010) which predicted that the agricultural effects of climate change would lead to “higher food prices and therefore lower affordability of food, reduced calorie availability, and growing childhood malnutrition […]

Mongabay (India), in a story about adverse impacts of climate change on India’s agricultural sector, refers to IFPRI’s 2022 Global Food Policy Report which has warned that climate change may push 90 million Indians towards hunger by 2030 and has listed a decline in agricultural production and disruption in the food supply chain as reasons for […]

Philippine News Agency, in a news-post about farmers adaptation and mitigation training, quotes IFPRI’s report which states that global climate change poses significant risks to those whose livelihood depends directly on agriculture. “Agriculture is extremely vulnerable to climate change. Higher temperatures eventually reduce yields of desirable crops while encouraging weed and pest proliferation. Changes in […]

In a video interview with Bloomberg’s Daybreak Asia, IFPRI’s senior research fellow Joseph Glauber discusses the impacts of the Ukraine War, the Black Sea Grain Agreement, and climate change on global food prices. “The world needs more wheat and other commodities. Unfortunately, because markets are so tight, and because of all the recent climatic events, […]

The Ukraine-Russian war is taking place solely in Ukraine, but the effects of the conflict are global writes The Epoch Times. The story reports that sanctions and counter-sanctions have increased energy prices, and fears of a food shortage have amplified as Ukraine and Russia are major grain exporters. It isn’t just the war driving up […]

Financial Times in a report examines what happens when a near crisis is averted. Russia and Ukraine together make up around a third of global wheat exports, and many low and middle-income countries, particularly in the Middle East and Africa, are dependent on grain imports. Ukraine and allied governments accused Russia of threatening global famine […]

CGTN America (China) produced a video interview with International Food Policy Research Institute’s Joseph Glauber, a senior research fellow, to discuss farmers’ economic needs and how they will vote. “Farmers actually weathered the pandemic pretty well. Prices started to rise in 2021, and the government did provide money to farmers to help augment some of […]