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Business Standard News (Bangladesh) published an article about how recent heavy floods in Bangladesh have taken a heavy toll on life, livelihoods, and infrastructures, and caused extensive damage to crops and livestock, raising worries for future food supplies. Climate change is affecting countries worldwide from floods to droughts, from wildfires to torrential rains to changes […]

CNBC Indonesia published an article on how the current world trade conditions are not good, especially in food commodities and their supporters. There is a trend that producing countries are starting to be stingy or restrict exports to other countries. This is allegedly in order to maintain food stability in his own country amid the […]

Devex Dish published an article stating the cost of a healthy diet is shooting up, with people in lower-income countries most at risk of being unable to afford proper nutrition. Director General Johan Swinnen warned about current trends in food prices. “We have to start looking at these things much more from a resilience perspective rather than […]

Dhaka Tribune published an article stating how countries have pursued restrictive export measures in response to the Ukraine conflict, thereby putting significant pressure on countries like Bangladesh that largely depend on imports for key food and fertilizer products. The current spate of export restrictions by some countries is impacting over 31 percent of Bangladesh’s imported […]

Newsweek published an article stating how grocery costs are up around 12 percent from last year in part due to factors such as the war in Ukraine and post-farm factors including processing, packaging, and transporting costs, the impact on families is becoming more apparent. Joseph Glauber, a senior research fellow, told Newsweek: “On average, food […]

TIME Magazine published an article about how Sri Lanka and its economic turmoil have brought the South Asian nation to a point of instability precipitated by its disastrous shift to organic farming—posing new questions about the viability of sustainable agriculture.  With 22 million people, Sri Lanka would have been the first to transition to organic […]

University World News published an article on how the World Bank-sponsored African Centers of Excellence (ACEs) implemented across the continent have contributed significantly to the growth in the number of doctorates and master’s degrees on the continent over the past eight years, graduating 2,370 Ph.D. and a total of 11,539 MSc degree students. One panelist […]

Barron’s published an article about how inflation has reached its highest level since 1981, and some of the biggest increases are coming at the supermarket. The food at home portion of the index has surged 12.2 percent over the last 12 months—its largest increase since April 1979. “That’s a huge increase,” said Joseph Glauber, a […]

GZero published an article stating that shortages as a result of Russia’s war in Ukraine have aggravated a pre-existing global food crisis that could push a billion people — most of them in the poorest parts of the world — into starvation. It’s not just one thing: droughts, COVID-induced supply chain snarls, and high energy […]

Forbes published an article stating that on Sunday Blinken said, “President Putin is stopping food from being shipped and aggressively using his propaganda machine to deflect or distort responsibility because he hopes it’ll get the world to give in to him and end the sanctions… In other words, quite simply put, it’s blackmail.” Russia’s naval […]