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The Nation (Nigeria) published an article on markets in Africa are creating vast opportunities for economic growth. Africa’s food market, according to a World Bank report on agribusiness in Africa, may hit $939 billion by 2030. However, there is a challenge in the sector: the lingering settlement and payment gap in transactions, which is making […]

Guam PDN published an article on IFPRI’s latest findings on climate change from the 2022 Global Food Policy Report. According to IFPRI, climate changes, a growing population, rising food prices, and environmental factors have significant impacts on food security. 

News 9 Live published an article on climate change. Climate change became a mainstream issue in early 1990, and yet over the three decades, skepticism and foot-dragging by world leaders have worsened the impact, to the extent that lives and livelihoods across the globe are now at stake. The effects of global warming, like symptoms […]

Southeast AgNet published an article stating that ships are once again sailing from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports. But most of those ships with grain, sunflower, soy, and wheat were not headed to needy countries or carried grain stolen by Russia to ally Syria, and tonnage was far short of that in Ukraine silos. Senior research […]

Financial Times published an article on how the price of nitrogen-based fertilizers, which use gas as feedstock and typically provide for up to two-thirds of the nutrients used to grow crops, has risen in line with natural gas prices in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They hit record highs after sanctions on Moscow, […]

This Day Live published an article stating that according to a report by IFPRI titled “The Nigerian rice economy: Policy options for transforming production, marketing, and trade” over the past few decades, rice has become one of the leading food staples in Nigeria. It stated that given the fact that a large amount of rice […]

Financial Express published an article stating that extreme heat waves, wildfires, and several other natural calamities are proof of the impacts of the changing climatic conditions. According to a survey published by IFPRI (See 2022 Global Food Policy Report). The findings of the report also revealed that South Asia is significantly lagging in terms of […]

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 […]