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Disruptions in wheat, vegetable oil, and fertilizer markets drive up prices and threaten supplies.

Disruptions in wheat, vegetable oil, and fertilizer markets drive up prices and threaten supplies.

Virtual Event: May 19, 2022 – 9:00 AM to May 20, 2022 – 4:15 PM Bangkok (GMT +7). This virtual conference will share evidenced-based research and provide policy recommendations to support continued transformation in agri-food systems as the Southeast Asia region enters a post-COVID-19 world.

Washington Post published an article on what parents can do to make sure children are eating healthy nutritious foods. In the first two years of life, a child will need to be fed approximately 3,000 times.  For some parents, that figure cues an exhausting montage: hundreds of veggies chopped into bite-sized portions; spoon after puree-laden […]

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Measures to protect domestic markets have broader impacts.

Russia-Ukraine Conflict; Food & Fertilizer Prices; Climate Change Resilience; and more.

Do’s and don’ts to avoid collateral damage.

Virtual Event: April 11, 2022 – 11:45 AM to 1:00 PM EDT. This event will delve into the wide-ranging impacts of COVID-19, and offer lessons for transforming food systems.

WITA (Washington International Trade Association) published a webinar on global food security and how the wear in Ukraine affects it worldwide. The webinar included Senior research fellow Joseph Glauber who spoke on a variety of topics including “Prices are up all over the world and after the Russian invasion prices went up about 20 – […]

Cornell Chronicle announced that Johan Swinnen, Director-General will speak at Cornell. Global food systems expert Johan Swinnen, Ph.D. ’92, will explore in the talk, Transforming Global Food Systems After COVID-19, the lessons learned and the steps needed to prevent a hunger catastrophe in the first talk of a new speaker series dedicated to confronting the […]

L’Independant wrote in an article stating that the war in Ukraine could plunge millions of people into starvation in the coming months. Ukrainian grain supply problems, coupled with sanctions against Russia, are driving up prices. Even before Russian tanks entered Ukraine, world grain prices were already higher than they were during the 2007-2008 food crisis, […]

Agri-Pulse published an article detailing talking points from a recent webinar. Agri-pulse writes that panelists at the webinar believe the war in Ukraine will increase food insecurity around the world, especially in countries heavily dependent on wheat imports from that country and Russia, and push food prices even higher. Senior research fellow Joseph Glauber stated […]

NTD published an article stating that the United States, the Group of Seven allies, and the European Union are readying a round of measures that “will continue to impose severe and immediate economic costs” on Russia for what it described as “atrocities in Ukraine, including in Bucha.” Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the sanctions […]

Fremont News Messenger (USA) published an article that stated concerns over how Vladimir Putin might respond to Western sanctions against Russia following its invasion of Ukraine has focused attention on Europe’s reliance on Russian energy. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has turned the country “from the breadbasket of the world to breadlines,” a situation that will […]

News Nation published an article that said, as food prices continue to soar, the conflict in Ukraine is impacting the global food supply and agricultural production, and food experts say a global food crisis is on the horizon. According to IFPRI (see the blog post, How will Russia’s invasion of Ukraine affect global food security), […]

MSNBC (The Cross Connection) interviewed senior research fellow Joseph Glauber who said that 60 percent of wheat crops are planted in the fall and harvested in the spring, but indications are saying that there won’t be that much more planted. We’ll see wheat planted in Australia and Argentina, but that will take a while. How […]

Successful Farming published an article stating that American farmers say they will plant more soybeans — a record 91 million acres — and less corn and spring wheat despite tight global wheat supplies that have been compounded by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The U.S. is the world’s largest agricultural exporter. Senior research fellow Joseph […]

Western Producer published an article stating if the war in Ukraine causes food prices to further spike, the push to build up biodiesel capacity in countries such as the United States is likely to face growing scrutiny, two American experts told the Farm Foundation Forum.  “We had a big food-fuel debate in 2007-08 and I […]

Christian Science Monitor published an article stating that when Ukraine banned the export of wheat this month and started scattering land mines in fields of winter cereals and sunflowers to slow invading Russian troops, it was bad news for Egyptian families struggling to put food on the table. Egypt, which counts on Ukraine and Russia […]