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Trinidad Express published an article stating that a bipartisan group of United States Congressmen and senators is calling on the US International Trade Commission (ITC) to suspend the imposition of new duties on urea ammonium fertilizer from Trinidad and Tobago. The Biden administration imposed sanctions on Russia and cut off Russia from global trade. The […]

The Wall Street Journal published an article stating that both Ukraine and Russia are top grain exporters and supply disruption is only part of the war’s impact on food.  Country-specific dynamics will affect how they are able to handle the loss of a critical source of wheat imports, according to senior research fellow David Laborde. […]

CBC News (Canada) published an article on how the pandemic and inflation, and now, war and sanctions are threatening food security. Ukrainian land is being shattered by bombs, its seaports disrupted by blockades, and its working-age population increasingly focused on burying enemy soldiers instead of seeds. The ripple effects of this will hit the world’s […]

Vanguard (Cote d’Ivoire) published a summary of a five-day training of regional experts to support post third Biennial Review (BR) organized by the African Union ended Friday in Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire. IFPRI, along with several NGOs participated in this meeting.    

Successful Farming published an article stating that there are no overnight replacements for Ukraine and Russia in global wheat production. IFPRI analysts said, “Even under the most optimistic assumptions, global wheat prices will remain high throughout 2022 and the trend is likely to persist through 2023, given limits on expanding production.” Egypt, the world’s largest […]

The Conversation published an op-ed by IFPRI researchers, Kibrom Abay, Clemens Breisinger, David Laborde Debucquet, Joseph Glauber, and Lina Alaaeldin Abdelfattah. The authors write that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could create a global food security crisis. It is disrupting agricultural production and trade from one of the world’s major exporting regions. This threatens to drive […]

Center for Strategic & International Studies produced an online seminar with Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Agriculture Taras Dzoba joins FAO Deputy Director-General Beth Bechdol and senior research fellow Joseph Glauber for a discussion with CSIS Global Food Security Director Caitlin Welsh on the impacts of war on global food security. Senior research fellow Joseph Glauber […]

CNBC Indonesia published an article the Russo-Ukrainian war has an impact on competition between countries in finding new sources of wheat suppliers. So far, Russia and Ukraine supply 28% of the total world wheat export market. The conflict between the two countries clearly makes many importing countries such as Indonesia must look for other suppliers. […]

CMC Markets published an article on the US futures are bouncing around, in and out of the green and the red, while markets across Asia are higher. The NZX 50 closed at 0.6 percent. The FOMC is meeting to decide US Federal Reserve monetary policy, with interest rates expected to begin rising by at least […]

Farm Policy published an article stating that the area sown with Ukraine’s 2022 spring grain crops could fall 39 percent to 4.7 million hectares due to Russia’s military invasion. Senior research fellow Joseph Glauber told the Washington Post, “Before the invasion, it was assumed that about 24 million tons of wheat sown last fall would […]