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AgWeb published an article stating that eye-popping prices for both grain and crop inputs have U.S. farmers taking a hard look at budgets in 2022. Markets ebb and flow, but war in one of the world’s largest export countries stands as a major wild card. As the battle in Ukraine stretches on, just how many […]

Illinois Newsroom published an article stating that global wheat supplies have been tightened from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and now the crop faces a domestic threat: drought in the Great Plains. In Kansas, one of the country’s top wheat-producing states, an industry group predicts dry conditions will force harvests down by about 30% this year. Senior […]

Fortune Magazine published an article writing that news stories are hard to miss on how we are on the brink of a devastating food crisis, how we only have a few weeks’ worth of wheat left, and how getting out some 20 million tons of grain stuck in Ukraine could determine the fate of the […]

Econofact is reporting that global hunger has risen to record levels. Up to 811 million people — about a tenth of the world’s population— currently confront hunger. The striking increase in hunger pre-dates the war in Ukraine, but the war has strongly accelerated that trend. Climate-related events are also fueling the global hunger crisis. Climate […]

Washington Post published an article stating that the U..N. refugee agency believes that Russia’s war in Ukraine has pushed global displacement figures to record levels, calling the statistics a “tragic milestone.” According to IFPRI, Ukraine and Russia produce about a third of the wheat traded in global markets and about a quarter of the world’s […]

VN Express (Viet Nam) published an article stating that the war in Ukraine has blocked grain transportation routes, disrupted fertilizer supply chains, and “poured fuel into the fire” of the global food crisis, according to experts. David Laborde, a senior research fellow, also said that more than 20 million tons of food trapped in Ukraine […]

IEidiseis.gr (Greece) published an article stating that from food shortages on supermarket shelves to the frantic rise in fuel prices, the entire planet has been hit by the war in Ukraine, the end of which is still looming on the horizon. It is a fact that Russia’s embargo on Ukrainian ports, combined with subsequent Western […]

IISD (International Institute for Sustainable Development) published a summary of a roundtable, organized by IISD, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), and IFPRI as a part of IISD’s second Trade and Sustainability Hub discussed how World Trade Organization (WTO) rules can better prevent and mitigate food crises. Participants highlighted that export restrictions have […]

Virtual Event: June 23, 2022 – 5:00 AM to 7:00 AM EDT. This event will feature a high-level panel discussion on IFPRI’s 2022 Global Food Policy Report from Nigeria’s perspective.

Epoch Times–Chinese published an article about how the impact of poor climate and inflation, coupled with the Russian-Ukrainian war, has contributed to global food and food protectionism. Since the outbreak of the crisis, 27 countries around the world have set up food-related trade barriers, exacerbating the supply crisis in the global food market. According to […]

De Tijd (the Netherlands) published an article stating that we are headed to a food security crisis. to stifle protests against rising prices, more and more countries are introducing export restrictions on food and fertilizers. But that just increases food insecurity, experts say. “Export bans are the worst possible response.” Twenty countries have imposed export […]

Manila Times (Philippines) published an article stating that Negros Occidental The governor committed to “do our best to avoid a food shortage. This is not only in Negros Occidental but worldwide. These are difficult times that we are about to face and we are already facing,” he pointed out. Negros cannot totally say it is […]

MUI Daily News published a blog post on how bad weather, droughts, disruptions associated with COVID-19, rising energy prices, and now the war in Ukraine … threats to the world’s food supply are mounting. Following in the footsteps of Ukraine and Russia, many countries are trying to protect themselves from the shock by introducing restrictions […]

Farms.com published an article writing that with a Covid-19 weary world, the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation and abetted by Belarus, the global ag sector is in flux. With Russia and Belarus major suppliers of fertilizers for farming, since the Autumn of 2021 countries have initiated sanctions and export restrictions on foods and fertilizer […]

Daily Wire published an article stating that the Biden administration announced a plan on Thursday to address looming food shortages in the Western hemisphere. In the aftermath of COVID-19 and the lockdown-induced recession, supply chain bottlenecks have contributed to rising food prices in the United States. The worldwide food supply has more recently been impacted […]

Phil Star (Global business section) published an article that stated attaining food self-sufficiency is of utmost important. The government cannot and should not treat our agricultural sector and our farmers as dispensable just because our consuming public can import everything it needs. We should be importing only those crops that cannot be grown here. But for […]

Tech News Insight published an article stating that food prices have been on the rise in the past few months. And industry watchers said rice, a staple food in much of Asia, maybe next. Prices of many foods have risen, from wheat and other grains to meat and oils. This was driven by a number of […]