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Business Standard reposted an IFPRI blog post by researchers Abdullah Mamun, Joseph Glauber, and David Laborde. The post illustrates how disruptions in wheat, vegetable oil, and fertilizer markets caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drive up prices and threaten supplies in Bangladesh. The conflict threatens Bangladesh’s recent progress. According to an IFPRI study, the proportion […]

ABC News published an article stating that global cooking oil prices have been rising since the COVID-19 pandemic began for multiple reasons, from poor harvests in South America to virus-related labor shortages and steadily increasing demand from the biofuel industry. The war in Ukraine — which supplies nearly half of the world’s sunflower oil, on […]

National Journal published an article on how policy advocates and experts want Congress to provide additional dollars to address the crisis, including through the U.N.’s World Food Programme, which works to deliver food in regions experiencing conflict and disasters. Prices have gone up globally and that will hit African countries hard because of their high import […]

CBS42 published an article on how food prices are on the rise across the world. The prices of vegetable oil, for example, hit an all-time high in February and then again in March. Joseph Glauber, a senior research fellow, told AP that continued low supplies could force countries to find a balance between using oils […]

National Journal published an article on how policy advocates and experts want Congress to provide additional dollars to address the crisis, including through the U.N.’s World Food Programme, which works to deliver food in regions experiencing conflict and disasters. Prices have gone up globally and that will hit African countries hard because of their high import […]

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 […]