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Armed conflicts, climate change, and the increase in the cost of inputs exert great pressure on the food chain, writes El Pais in an extensive article on global hunger. In the middle of the 21st century —the century with the greatest technological development we have ever seen–we have not yet found the key to preventing millions […]

El Pais (Spain) in an extensive report writes the FAO index falls for the tenth consecutive month, but experts warn that cereals, meat, dairy, oils, and sugar remain at very high levels. Prices are still very high. The FAO index, after rising during the first months after the start of the conflict in Ukraine, is […]

The New Humanitarian interviewed Valeria Piñeiro, IFPRI’s acting head for Latin America, for the article about the worsening situation with hunger and poverty in Argentina. Piñeiro is asking the international community not to neglect Argentina and Latin America. In the decade up to 2015, the region was hailed for outperforming others in reducing hunger and poverty, but […]

Food executives are warning of more price hikes to come, even as commodities like palm oil and dairy decline writes Bloomberg in an article on food prices. Diplomats talk of the worst food crisis since World War II, with parts of Africa on the brink of famine.   This striking dissonance underscores the significant time lag […]

How can we transform agrifood systems to be sustainable, inclusive, and resilient for a more food-secure future?

Virtual Event: February 9, 2023 – 9:00 AM- 10:00 AM EST. IFPRI’s Xinshen Diao and James Thurlow will present their latest round of country impact modeling in Agrilinks webinar “Impacts of Global Shocks on Poverty, Hunger, and Diets”.

VIRTUAL IFPRI-AMIS Seminar Series: March 8, 2023 at 9:00am-10:30am EST. During this seminar speakers will discuss the war’s impacts on Ukraine’s producers, wheat buyers and importers in the MENA region, and households in Egypt and Yemen.

Note: This press release is a version of the original statement published by The Lancet. It includes additional quotes from Purnima Menon, Senior Director for Food and Nutrition Policy, CGIAR, and Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI, who is a co-author of The Lancet 2023 Series on Breastfeeding, launched today. Formula milk marketing tactics are exploitative, and regulations […]

Virtual Event: March 2, 2023 – 9:00 AM- 10:30 AM EST. This Policy Seminar will introduce the new health and nutrition (HN) and market inclusion (MI) indicators and explain how they can guide nutrition-sensitive and market inclusion elements of agricultural development projects.

Revisiting a key policy debate in light of high food prices.

Upgrade (Austria) published an article on food production and how experts see the challenges ahead.   With a global population already more than 8 billion and one in ten people suffering from hunger, improving food security amid climate change concerns, requires international coordination and transdisciplinary collaboration, say experts including Charlotte Hebebrand, the Communications and Public […]

Max Armstrong’s Farm Progress America is a daily podcast that looks at key issues in agriculture. It is produced and presented by Max Armstrong, veteran farm broadcaster and host of This Week in Agribusiness. In this episode, Max Armstrong reports that as the U.S. economy slows inflation will fall as well. Armstrong summarized comments from […]

In a light, yet serious op-ed on the increase in food prices, Yeshiva World used potato kugel, a pudding-like dish made with grated or pureed potatoes, onions, eggs, flour, and other ingredients, to examine food prices. It seems that there are four major factors that have contributed to the “potato kugel crisis,” Labor, along with […]

As part of a summary of significant discussions in agriculture and related topics, Devex Dish wrote that the share of exports affected by restrictions has fallen by 50 percent since May 2022. A new analysis from the International Food Policy Research Institute shows that the impact of food export restrictions imposed after the Russian invasion […]

A new digital infrastructure for farmers and an accelerator fund to encourage startups were among the major announcements in India’s latest budget, writes Live Mint in a story. The digital public infrastructure for agriculture will be built as an open-source public good that will enable farmer-centric solutions. The proposed digital agri-stack will aid farmers with […]

Almawq3, in a piece on inflation in Egypt, writes that a study by the International Food Policy Research Institute found that eight-five percent of Egyptian families dispensed with meat; seventy-five percent dispensed with poultry, dairy, and eggs, and sixty-one percent reduced their consumption of fish. Approximately twenty-five percent reduced their consumption of bread Egyptian families […]

The Star (Myanmar) published an article on the current state of politics and lost progress over the past two years. Armed conflict started in February 2021, but some are hopeful that a new election will turn turmoil into something workable for its citizens. However, many experts see little hope for negotiation.  More than 1.5 million […]