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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 […]

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.