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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

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Kalyani Raghunathan

Kalyani Raghunathan is Research Fellow in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit, based in New Delhi, India. Her research lies at the intersection of agriculture, gender, social protection, and public health and nutrition, with a specific focus on South Asia and Africa. 

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Charlotte Hebebrand

Director of Communications and Public Affairs

Charlotte Hebebrand

Bio

Charlotte Hebebrand is the Director of Communications and Public Affairs. She has extensive experience researching as well as writing and communicating about food and agricultural policy topics.

Charlotte served most recently as Director General of the Paris-based International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA), a 500+ member association composed of different companies in the fertilizer value chain and other organizations with an interest in plant nutrition, with some two-thirds of the membership based in emerging and developing economies. During her tenure, she worked to modernize the governance structure of the association, to update the market intelligence and conference offerings, and to strengthen outreach to UN agencies and other international organizations. Working closely with the membership and external stakeholders, she led a strategic review that resulted in a major pivot to sustainability/ESG in IFA’s work program. She was formerly the President of the Washington, DC-based International Food & Agricultural Trade Policy Council, a membership organization composed of former trade negotiators, academics, and private sector players dedicated to the pursuit of an open and fair trading system for food and agricultural products.

Charlotte began to work on food and agricultural topics at the EU Delegation in Washington, where she held positions in the Development, Trade and Agriculture & Food Safety divisions. She presently serves on the Board of the International Fertilizer Development Center, and on the advisory board of ag tech start-up Phospholutions. She is a former member of the Independent Steering Committee of CGIAR’s Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security and previously served as a member of DuPont’s Advisory Committee on Agricultural Innovation & Productivity for the 21st Century. She holds an MA in International Relations and Economics from the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.

Languages spoken: English, German, French, Spanish

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Publications

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Book Chapter

Overview and Recent Challenges [In Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor 2024]

2024Odjo, Sunday; Zaki, Chahir; Traoré, Fousseini; Hebebrand, Charlotte
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Overview and Recent Challenges [In Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor 2024]

The Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM) is an annual flagship publication of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and AKADEMIYA2063. This seventh edition provides an overview of short- and long-term trends and drivers behind Africa’s global trade, intra-African trade, and trade within Africa’s regional economic communities (RECs), with a focus on the nexus of trade and climate change. The six chapters of this 2024 AATM report are as follows. This first chapter offers an overview of the food security concerns in African countries in the wake of the global crisis related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia–Ukraine war, and the global resurgence of protectionist policies. It examines trade through a food security lens, including availability, utilization, accessibility, and stability of food supplies, as well as the effects of tariffs, nontariff measures (NTMs), and deep trade agreements on food security in Africa. Special attention is paid to fertilizers, given the importance of these inputs for agricultural productivity and food security. As a result of Africa’s heavy dependence on fertilizer imports, farmers, and particularly smallholders, were severely challenged in the recent crisis when spikes in international fertilizer prices were compounded by high rates of domestic inflation.

Year published

2024

Authors

Odjo, Sunday; Zaki, Chahir; Traoré, Fousseini; Hebebrand, Charlotte

Citation

Odjo, Sunday; Traoré, Fousseini; Zaki, Chahir; and Hebebrand, Charlotte. 2024. Overview and Recent Challenges. In Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor 2024 , Odjo, Sunday, ed.; Traoré, Fousseini, ed.; and Zaki, Chahir, ed. Chapter 1. Kigali and Washington, DC: AKADEMIYA2063 and International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151909

Keywords

Africa; Food Security; Policies; Trade; Tariffs; Fertilizers; Agricultural Production

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Book Chapter

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Report

2024 Breakthrough Agenda Report: Agriculture

2024
Mukherji, Aditi ; Marshall, Suzie; Arango, Jacobo; Costa, Ciniro; Flintan, Fiona E. ; Hebebrand, Charlotte; Kihara, Job Maguta; Masso, Cargele; Molloy, Patrick; Rusinamhodzi, Leonard
…more Sapkota, Tek Bahadur; Vanlauwe, Bernard
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2024 Breakthrough Agenda Report: Agriculture

Year published

2024

Authors

Mukherji, Aditi ; Marshall, Suzie; Arango, Jacobo; Costa, Ciniro; Flintan, Fiona E. ; Hebebrand, Charlotte; Kihara, Job Maguta; Masso, Cargele; Molloy, Patrick; Rusinamhodzi, Leonard ; Sapkota, Tek Bahadur; Vanlauwe, Bernard

Citation

Mukherji, A., Marshall S., Arango, J., Costa Jr, C., Flintan, F., Hebebrand, C., Kihara, J., Masso, C., Molloy, P., Rusinamhodzi, L., Sapkota, T. and Vanlauwe, B. 2024. 2024 Breakthrough Agenda Report: Agriculture. Montpellier, France: CGIAR.

Keywords

Climate Change; Agriculture

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open Access

Source

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Project

Livestock and Climate

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Report

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Book Chapter

The Russia-Ukraine war after a year: Impacts on fertilizer production, prices, and trade flows

2023Hebebrand, Charlotte; Glauber, Joseph W.
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The Russia-Ukraine war after a year: Impacts on fertilizer production, prices, and trade flows

Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine triggered global disruptions in markets for key food crops and fertilizers, threatening food security worldwide. With the war now entering its second year, high international food prices have moderated, though domestic price levels remain high in many low- and middle-income countries. Here, we turn to global fertilizer markets, examining how they weathered the past year, and the likely impacts going forward for agricultural production and food security.

Year published

2023

Authors

Hebebrand, Charlotte; Glauber, Joseph W.

Citation

Hebebrand, Charlotte; and Glauber, Joseph W. 2023. The Russia-Ukraine war after a year: Impacts on fertilizer production, prices, and trade flows. In The Russia-Ukraine Conflict and Global Food Security, eds. Joseph Glauber and David Laborde Debucquet. Section One: A Conflict with Global Consequences, Chapter 8, Pp. 43-47. https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896294394_08

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Belarus; Ukraine

Keywords

Russia; Eastern Europe; Europe; Penalties; Fertilizers; Shock; Policies; War; Coronavirus; Covid-19; Crops; Agriculture; Markets; Trade; Coronavirinae; Food Security; Conflicts; Coronavirus Disease; Prices; Climate Change

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896294394_08 Source record

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Blogs

Global fertilizer trade 2021-2023: What happened after war-related price spikes
IFPRI Blog
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April 05, 2024

Global fertilizer trade 2021-2023: What happened after war-related price spikes

By Charlotte Hebebrand and Joseph Glauber

Impacts of shifting market flows.

Grappling with compounding crises in domestic fertilizer markets in Africa: The case of Ethiopia
IFPRI Blog
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January 16, 2024

Grappling with compounding crises in domestic fertilizer markets in Africa: The case of Ethiopia

By Kibrom Abay, Thomas W. Assefa, Guush Berhane, Gashaw Tadesse Abate, and Charlotte Hebebrand

Local effects of global shocks persist.

Fertilizer policies amid global supply and price shocks
IFPRI Blog
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December 11, 2023

Fertilizer policies amid global supply and price shocks

By Kibrom Abay, Jordan Chamberlin, Pauline Chivenge, Charlotte Hebebrand, and David J. Spielman

Global prices have moderated but many countries still face difficulties.

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Events

IFPRI @ 29th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP29)
IFPRI at External Event

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November 11 to 22, 2024

IFPRI @ 29th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP29)

IFPRI is pleased to participate in the 29th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP29) being held in Baku, Azerbaijan from November 11 to November 22, 2024. COP29 is a pivotal opportunity to accelerate action to tackle the climate crisis. With global temperatures hitting record highs, and extreme weather events affecting people around the globe. […]

Learning Support for a Multi-Country Climate Resilience Programme for Food Security
IFPRI Policy Seminar

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November 5, 2024, 9:00 – 10:30 am

Learning Support for a Multi-Country Climate Resilience Programme for Food Security

The Learning Support for a Sub-Saharan Africa Multi-Country Climate Resilience Program for Food Security, launched in 2023, aims to enhance food security and climate resilience across 14 African countries. This collaboration among CGIAR, the World Food Programme, and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) has three pillars: scaling disaster risk financing, transforming food systems […]

Debt Distress and the Right to Food in Africa
IFPRI Policy Seminar

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October 2, 2024, 9:30 – 11:00 am

Debt Distress and the Right to Food in Africa

More than half of low-income countries are at risk of debt distress or have already defaulted. The debt crisis, while exacerbated by recent crises, has been looming for several years. According to the United Nations, 3.3 billion people now live in countries that spend more on interest repayments than on education or health, and in […]

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News

August 10, 2023 | In the News

Russia’s shift to divert fertilizer exports toward China and India raises food security concerns (Nikkei)

Nikkei (Japan) quotes IFPRI’s Director of Communications and Public Affairs Charlotte Hebebrand who noted, “Russia is clearly concerned about fertilizer exports. With rising fertilizer prices and ongoing conflict in Ukraine, securing revenue through exports has become even more crucial.” “According to analysis by IFPRI, the export volumes of urea fertilizer and diammonium phosphate (DAP) from […]

July 23, 2023 | Press Release

IFPRI researchers receive AAEA 2023 Quality of Communication and Publication of Enduring Quality awards

Work on the implications of the Ukraine crisis on food systems and research on trade, food standards, and poverty recognized Washington, D.C. June 24, 2023 – Researchers at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) were recognized today with two prestigious awards from the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA). Joseph Glauber (Senior Research Fellow), David […]

February 24, 2023 | In the News

When the war in Ukraine has consequences in the Global South (Le Devoir) 

The price of DAP fertilizer in Kenya has gone from 2600 shillings per bag in 2019 to 6500 today, motivating the government to subsidize so that farmers pay 3500 writes Le Devoir (France). The aim is to reach some 5 million farmers, but only around 20 percent seem to be receiving subsidized DAP given the difficulties/costs […]

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