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In North India, unforgiving heatwaves have reduced the yield and quality of wheat this year (Scroll.In)
June 09, 2022
Scroll.in published an article that discussed climate changes in India. In the 2022 Global Food Policy Report researchers warn that climate change may push 9 crore Indians towards hunger by 2030 due to a decline in agricultural production and disruption in the food supply chain. Climate change increases the likelihood and intensity of heatwaves, which […]
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War and drought are affecting the world’s wheat supply. That could mean higher prices at the grocery (KOSU – NPR)
June 09, 2022
KOSU (NPR) reported in an article that global wheat supplies have been tightened from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and now the crop faces a domestic threat: drought in the Great Plains. Senior research fellow Joseph Glauber said, “As far as I know people have been able to find grain. The question is, how much are […]
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Why Russia is being accused of using food as a weapon of war (CNN)
June 09, 2022
CNN published an article on how Russia’s war in Ukraine could push up to 49 million people into famine or famine-like conditions because of its devastating impact on global food supply and prices, the United Nations has said, in the latest dire warning over food insecurity. Russia’s blockade of Ukrainian ports has already raised global […]
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Can food-related trade and fiscal policies address obesity? (Food Tank)
June 08, 2022
Food Tank published an article on the results of a recent analysis by IFPRI that finds that food-related trade and fiscal policies are linked to weight outcomes and diet-related illnesses. The findings stress the importance of combining public health policy with trade and fiscal policy reforms. Senior research fellow Kibrom Abay said, “One of the […]
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West needs to act fast to tackle food crisis — and Moscow’s blame game (Financial Times)
June 08, 2022
Financial Times published an op-ed stating that G7 countries will outline global initiatives this month to help prevent hunger as Russia weighs on grain importers. After a meeting with Vladimir Putin last week, Senegal’s President Macky Sall, also chair of the African Union, called for the lifting of western economic sanctions against Russia. He embraced […]
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FAO asked to keep food markets open (The Manila Post)
June 08, 2022
Manila Post published an article stating that in a letter to FAO Director General Qu Dongyu, Agriculture Secretary William Dar called on FAO to “spearhead another global appeal to various countries to keep unhampered the movement of food and agricultural inputs as part of the global effort to build more efficient, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable […]
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The era of world food protection begins, here’s a list of countries! (CNBC Indonesia)
June 07, 2022
CNBC Indonesia published an article stating that the issue of unbalanced demand and supply is the trail left by the Covid-19 pandemic. Demand-side speed cannot be followed by production rate. As a result, goods are scarce and expensive. Supply chain problems are inevitable. IFPRI writes, “With food prices already high due to Covid-19-related supply chain […]
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From tomatoes to wheat, Indian crop forecasting is in the grip of a Raja Todar Mal problem (The Print)
June 07, 2022
The Print (India) published an article saying that India’s U-turn on wheat exports is a result of incorrect estimates derived from an archaic crop forecasting system devised 4 centuries ago by Emperor Akbar’s finance minister. India has an urgent need to clean its data systems in agriculture. The final production estimates for wheat harvested in […]
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Food security now a G20 top priority (Asia Times)
June 07, 2022
Asia Times published an article on how in just over two months, the world food situation has gone from bad to worse. Calls not to panic fell on deaf ears, even as the Ukrainian military put up stiff opposition to the Russian onslaught. If Ukraine somehow wins the war, it will be decades before its […]
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Hunger crisis in Ukraine amid invasion (Borgen Magazine)
June 07, 2022
Borgen Magazine published an article that they had put up a black flag at one end of a Ukrainian village and another one at the other end, which indicated that absolutely no one had survived, not even a dog or a cat.” This was the reality that Ukrainians faced during the great famine of the […]