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Star Tribune published an article stating that costs are down from their peaks at the beginning of the Ukraine war but are still up compared to last year. Russia’s Feb. 24 attack on Ukraine sent a shockwave through commodity markets. The outlook for wheat prices became especially cloudy in the first months of the war after […]

India Education Diary published an article on a new research project to tackle one of the most urgent crises facing the planet: food insecurity. Approximately 276 million people worldwide are severely food insecure, and more than half a million face famine conditions. Despite the need for more secure food systems, significant knowledge gaps exist when […]

The Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply Links published an article stating protectionist policies are most pronounced in the world’s food supply chains, where they risk exacerbating global poverty. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, 24 countries implemented export bans covering over 30 food items including ingredients such as wheat, sugar, and oils, according to research […]

PBS Newshour produced a video discussing how President Zelensky on Thursday hosted Turkey’s President Erdogan and the UN Secretary-General Guterres, both architects of a deal last month that allows Ukraine to export food amid the war and a global food shortage. But has that UN-brokered deal been effective in achieving its goals? Senior research fellow […]

Asia News Network published an article on findings from the 2022 Global Food Policy Report which showed an unprecedented suite of climatic changes has caused crop yield declines and production losses throughout the region. According to the report, “In Bangladesh, near-term projections estimate a reduction of up to 17 percent in total calorie consumption by […]

Farmers Weekly (South Africa) published an article on how the degradation of the land had forced their livestock to compete with local wildlife for the fast-diminishing water supplies and grazing. According to the UN Environment Programme, the global food system was the primary driver of the loss of biodiversity. “Expansion of agricultural areas has been […]

New Age published an article on the findings of the 2022 Global Food Policy Report which finds that without any action taken to contain the impacts of climate change, nearly 1.5 crore people are at risk of hunger by 2030.  Bangladesh has the third largest population facing the risk of going hungry in South Asia, […]

The Daily Star published an article on the Bangladesh launch of the 2022 Global Food Policy Report and its findings. According to the IFPRI report, says the number of victims of hunger would be 11.3 million in 2030 if there was no impact of climate change. According to the report, launched yesterday for Bangladesh at […]

Daily Observer published an article on the 2022 Global Food Policy Report‘s latest findings. The report highlighted that climate change threatens to impact over 750 million people in South Asia through climate hazards, primarily floods and droughts. The report notes that food systems are impacted by climate change, and it plays an equally critical causal […]

BBC published a podcast about what rising vegetable oil prices mean for food businesses. Vegetable oil can make or break a food business. In the food industry, they rely on vegetable oil.  Senior research fellow David Laborde explained that since oil is a tenth of our calorie intake, making it the most important food source […]