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VIRTUAL IFPRI-AMIS Seminar Series: April 18, 2023 at 9am-10:30am EDT. This session will address crop and weather conditions in key wheat, corn, and oilseed producing regions including the US and Canada, the EU and Black Sea, North Africa and China.

March 22, 2023 @ 11am – 12:15pm EDT: This session links the Decade of Action on Nutrition with the United Nations Water Action Decade and identifies areas for joint progress.

Key takeaways from the recent event organized by IFPRI South Asia and Research and Information System for Developing Countries.

Farm Policy News quoted Reuters in a report, writing, “Russia has proposed that a U.N.-backed initiative that has enabled grains to be exported from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports should be renewed for just 60 days.”  In more detail regarding wheat prices, Joseph Glauber, a senior research fellow with the International Food Policy Research Institute, indicated […]

May 16 and 17, 2023 (9:00am – 5:00pm Addis Ababa): The Strengthen PSNP5 Institutions and Resilience (SPIR II) Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA) in Ethiopia is a five-year project (2021-2026) that supports implementation of the fifth phase of the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP5) in Amhara and Oromia regions and provides additional graduation model programming through complementary gender-sensitive livelihood, nutrition, and climate resilience activities to strengthen the program and expand its impacts.

“Most EU countries want to counter the narrative, heralded by Russia, that EU sanctions are preventing food and fertilizers from reaching food-insecure countries,” writes POLITICO in an article discussing fertilizer supply issues to developing countries from Russia and Belarus. The publication quotes IFPRI’s senior research fellow Joseph Glauber who said that, despite the doomsday predictions, “there is […]

A nine-country effort to manage a delicate resource.

Hybrid Event: April 11, 2023 – 9:00 AM- 10:30 AM EDT. Join us for the launch of IFPRI’s 2023 Global Food Policy Report, which explores evidence-based policy and governance solutions that can provide better early warning and rapid response and increase resilience of food systems.

A nine-country effort to manage a delicate resource.

Revisiting Nepal’s farmer-managed irrigation systems.

The diverse benefits of repurposing support programs.

“Diplomats are racing against time to negotiate a full extension of the Black Sea Grain Initiative before it expires on Saturday, a major test for the rare wartime agreement that helped stabilize global food prices after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,” writes Foreign Policy. “When it comes to extending the deal, “the longer the better,” said Joseph […]

“Maharashtra’s onion farmers, the star producers of India’s perennial kitchen staple, are staring at huge losses. This is likely to have a serious impact on onion harvest going ahead,” writes Money Control in a story on onion prices. Farmers are demanding the lifting of the ban on onion exports. There have also been reports of […]

“AI is changing the way we work and live. But with climate change impacting seasonal temperatures and rainfalls around the world, can it help make food production more sustainable?” asks The Climate Question podcast, BBC (UK). Claudia Ringler, Deputy Director of the Environment and Production and Technology Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute was interviewed […]

In an op-ed published by Hindu Business Line, IFPRI South Asia’s Devesh Roy, Shahidur Rashid, and Mamata Pradhan write, “Trade and investment are major instruments to attain food security across the BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) member-states, particularly in a climate-affected, post-pandemic world. However, trade and market integration is an area where the […]

Mirage writes in a piece on agriculture production that a study, discovered one seemingly surefire way of improving conservation and production–include more women in decisionmaking. Their involvement boosted cooperation between farmers on environmental issues and increased output. The results are published in the journal, Communications Earth & Environment.   Wei Zhang, a senior research fellow at IFPRI […]