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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 […]

One Acre Fund reports that agriculture has always been deeply dependent on the weather, with farmers needing a steady mixture of sun, warmth, and rains in order to reliably produce the food that all of humanity depends on for survival. Now, these once predictable growing cycles are at risk from climate change, and smallholders are […]

The Economist examines the implications of the Black Sea Grain Deal suspension, looking at how Putin’s attempt at grain blackmail highlights a wider problem: food supplies are often disrupted by men with guns. “Indeed, of the 828m people who do not get enough food, nearly 60% live in countries racked by conflict. Armed violence is […]

PBS published an update to its story on Russia’s suspension of the grain deal. PBS writes that diplomatic efforts salvaged the wartime agreement allowing Ukrainian grain and other commodities to leave the Black Sea region port. Ukraine formally committed to use the established safe shipping corridor between southern Ukraine and Turkey “exclusively in accordance with […]

Hindustan, in this article, examined how ongoing and varied changes in climate will affect future food security in India. This year, changes in crop production patterns due to weather changes like an unusual heatwave in the spring ruined wheat crops and trimmed yields. These changes in climate affect regional and national politics, global geopolitics, and […]

Financial Times (UK) published an article on Russia’s withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain Initiative that could have ‘catastrophic consequences’ for poorer countries bringing in Lebanon as an example. Reliant on Ukraine for up to 60 percent of its wheat, Lebanon acutely felt the impact of Russia’s Black Sea blockade, but shortages were eased after […]

Krishak Jagat (India) re-published a CGIAR/IFPRI blog on the recent World Food Price Borlaug Dialogue where Johan Swinnen, CGIAR Managing Director, Systems Transformation, and Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) presented CGIAR work, research, and future plans and activities. The discussion focused on both rapid responses to the food crisis and […]