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BBC World News (Spanish version) published an article stating that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has laid bare an international landscape marked by a “new Iron Curtain” separating Russia from the West that some experts fear could trigger a global food crisis. A humanitarian catastrophe is looming. Senior research fellow Joseph Glauber says that “it is […]

The Irish News published an article stating that one of the groups hardest hit by inflation and rising prices will be pensioners and soon-to-be pensioners. Pensioners are getting poorer. Moreover, more of their income is being eaten up by the cost of food, heating, and essentials, as the fallout from the war in Ukraine and […]

SmogLab published an article that stated Ukraine produces enough food to feed 400 million people on Earth.” A food crisis will be the result of the ongoing war. Among other things, hunger in countries dependent on the supply of grains and seeds from Ukraine, and a further increase in food prices in other countries.  The […]

HumAngle published an article that said the present food crisis is said to be due to limited food production, and barriers to regional trade, among others, which could be directly linked to the ongoing war in Ukraine that is disrupting global food trade. An analysis by IFPRI (see IFPRI blog post, West Africa faces mixed […]

Wall Street Journal published an article on how bad choices in Latin America are contributing to global food shortages. Russi’s war on Ukraine is one reason for a spike in food prices that now threatens some of the world’s most vulnerable populations. But it’s far from the only reason. In Argentina, it isn’t even the […]

New Zealand Herald published an article stating that things weren’t great to start with. Since the Covid-19 pandemic began two years ago, global supply networks have been seriously disrupted. Factories have been closed. Ships have been stuck in long queues to offload their cargoes. Supplies of primary resources have been slowed. Now, just as the […]

Inkstick published an article stating that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has not only created global food insecurity but is also damaging the environment. A study by IFPRI found the rising demand for biofuels to be one of the main drivers contributing to the 2008 food crisis by causing the demand for grain and vegetable oil […]

RFi (France) published an article stating that to cover wheat shortages following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, African countries are looking to other sources or trying to use local-based alternatives in order to provide bread each day. However, this is also causing a spike in food prices. “What is coming immediately is an increase in price, […]

Nature published an article by several authors, including IFPRI senior research fellows Derek Headey, David Laborde, and division director Marie Ruel (MTID). The authors write that as the devastation in Ukraine continues to unfold, many of the warnings about the global food crisis precipitated by the war have focused on the risks of famine and […]

Indian Express published an op-ed by senior research fellow Devesh Roy and Neelkanth Mishra, co-head of Asia Pacific Strategy and India Strategist for Credit Suisse. The op-ed authors write, “India’s prospects for sustained wheat exports are limited. The surplus stocks are a fraction of the quantity exported annually by Russia and Ukraine. India faces strong […]