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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 […]

Hindustan Times, in an article on manifestations of climate change in India, quotes the IFPRI 2022 Global Food Policy Report, saying that climate change may “force many Indians into famine by 2030 owing to a reduction in agricultural productivity” and cause “ripple effects across the food supply chain.”  Republished in MSN and Press Reader 

Farmers Weekly (via Scribd) posted a commentary on an overlooked aspect of the plant-based foods debate. In western nations, climate change activists are holding attention-grabbing protests, such as flinging soup onto a Van Gogh painting. These organizations target dairy products in particular for what they claim is an industry that is destructive to the environment. […]

Concerns about climate change and its effects on Africa were foremost in a statement by the Ghanaian Majority Chief Whip Frank Annoh-Dompreh on the floor of Parliament, writes the Daily Guide Network (Ghana). Making a statement on COP 27 and the future of sustainability on the floor of Parliament on Thursday, Mr. Annoh-Dompreh, who is […]

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 […]

Successful Farming published an analysis of the Black Sea Grain Initiative and its suspension by Russia. The article includes written comments by IFPRI senior research fellows Joseph Glauber and David Laborde. The researchers state that Ukrainian farmers and food-importing nations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)will feel the pain of the Russian interruption […]

The World (International Public Radio) produced a radio interview with Joseph Glauber, a senior research fellow at IFPRI. Glauber discusses how Ukraine’s farmers have taken a major hit from the war. In the first few months of the war, we saw increases. “Since the grain initiative agreement started, prices have been pretty flat essentially prewar […]

Associated Press Archive posted a video interview with Senior research fellow Joseph Glauber of the International Food Policy Research Institute. Glauber spoke about Russia’s suspension of its participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative. He said “that re-opening the three ports is key because traditionally those ports had accounted for about 50 percent of exports […]