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Coming Soon: IFPRI’s Global Food Policy Report! The 2022 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR), IFPRI’s flagship report, will be launched at a virtual event on Thursday May 12 at 9:30AM EDT.
The report, titled “Climate Change & Food Systems,” highlights the urgency of accelerating innovation, reforming policies, resetting market incentives, and increasing financing for sustainable food systems transformation in the face of climate change. It sets forth a broad range of policy options for accelerated action by policymakers as well as international forums for policy and investment decision-making.
REGISTER NOW for the May 12 global virtual launch event, where speakers will highlight key findings.
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Act Now: In light of the widespread impacts of the Ukraine war, a paper from Derek Headey, David Laborde, Marie Ruel, and colleagues urges governments, donors, and others to act now to protect current and future generations from the damaging effects of malnutrition, as well as to prevent acute food insecurity. (Read Article)
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Shock to the System: Derek Headey and Marie Ruel explored how economic growth shocks between 1990–2018 impacted wasting outcomes for over a million children around the world. Estimates suggest that a 10% annual decline in national income increases moderate/severe wasting prevalence by 14.4–17.8%, which may be due to economic shocks increasing the risk of inadequate dietary diversity for children. With this in mind, the authors raise concern about the effects of the COVID-19 shock. (Read Article)
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Land Reform and Child Health: Evidence from the Kyrgyz Republic shows that children ages 0-5 exposed to land privatization for longer periods of time accumulated significantly greater gains in height- and weight-for-age z-scores, suggesting that the establishment of private property rights to land can improve child health and nutrition outcomes. Katrina Kosec and Olga N. Shemyakina discuss their findings. (Read Article)
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A Team Effort: Hagar ElDidi, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, and colleagues distill the findings from eight landscape-level cases spanning seven countries to provide lessons on designing, implementing, and supporting effective and appropriate multi-stakeholder platform (MSP) approaches to natural resource governance. (Read Article)
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High Fertilizer Prices Add to Global Food Security Concerns: World market prices for both food and fertilizer increased significantly over the past year and a half and have climbed to even higher levels following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, hitting their highest levels yet in March.
In an IFPRI blog post, Charlotte Hebebrand and David Laborde draw on data from the new IFPRI fertilizer dashboard; IFASTAT, compiled by the International Fertilizer Association (IFA); and FAOSTAT, to discuss the underlying drivers of current high prices, explain why the global fertilizer market is particularly susceptible to shocks, and examine which countries are most vulnerable to fertilizer market disruptions. ( Read Blog)
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Do No Harm: Given the potential food security impacts of the Ukraine crisis, particularly for the most vulnerable, many countries face difficult decisions. What approaches are best to limit impacts on the poor, maintain food availability, and cushion the blow of rising global prices—and what should be avoided? Joseph Glauber and David Laborde emphasize the need for measured policy responses and highlight some do’s and don’ts. (Read Blog)
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A Mixed Bag: Like the rest of the world, the West Africa region faces rapidly growing impacts from Russia’s war in Ukraine. West Africa imports relatively little food or fertilizer from Russia and Ukraine, insulating it from many of the current market disruptions, and has capacity to substitute some lost fertilizer imports. The region’s greatest food security risk is from rising global prices due to the war. Antoine Bouët, David Laborde, and Fousseini Traoré report on the mixed impacts. (Read Blog)
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Ukraine to Bangladesh: In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Bangladesh saw a record rise in prices of staples in March 2022, along with volatility in the fertilizer market. A blog post by Abdullah Mamun, Joseph Glauber, and David Laborde discusses Bangladesh’s trade exposure to several commodities facing export restrictions, the fiscal impact of rising imports, and potential measures for easing food security pressures. (Read Blog)
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Malawian Perspective: Food insecurity is endemic in Malawi, affecting up to 38% of the population every year in the run-up to the harvest in April. Although geographically distant, there are multiple channels through which the Ukraine crisis can make matters worse for Malawi this year. Joachim De Weerdt and Jan Duchoslav explain how rising wheat, maize, cooking oil, and fertilizer prices are likely to impact the country and how the Malawian government can respond. (Read Blog)
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From Bad to Worse: As the Russia-Ukraine war continues, there is a growing likelihood that food shortages will become acute, leading more countries to turn to restrictions on trade. Past experience suggests that these trade measures will put additional pressure on available food stocks, push prices up, and potentially threaten food security for the poor. Joseph Glauber, David Laborde, and Abdullah Mamun used IFPRI’s food export restriction tracker to analyze how the war has affected global trade thus far and what this means for food security. (Read Blog)
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 We’ve seen in the WFO that in many regions famers simply cannot afford to bring fertilizers to their farms or, even if they could, fertilizers are not available close to them…Many fields are not being planted even though the opportunity has presented itself.” – Theo de Jager, President, World Farmer Organization. (Event)
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Avoiding a global food crisis: Bloomberg TV published a video interview with IFPRI senior research fellow Joseph Glauber about the food systems impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war and what can be done to avoid a global food crisis. Glauber outlines different countries’ approaches and advises governments to “do no harm.”
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How the war in Ukraine threatens Bangladesh’s food security: The Business Standard (Bangladesh) republished a blog post by IFPRI researchers Abdullah Mamun, Joseph Glauber, and David Laborde that 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.
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