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Odisha: The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a CGIAR research center, the Department of Agriculture and Farmers’ Empowerment, and the Fisheries & Animal Resources Development Department signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the occasion of Akshaya Tritiya to work together toward doubling farmers’ income. The event was inaugurated by the Honorable Chief Minister of Odisha, […]

Agweek published an article stating that grain and input prices were high even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but the uncertainty it adds will likely keep prices high until at least the summer of 2023, and it may be 2024 until they go to pre-invasion levels, a prominent agricultural economist and trade expert says. […]

CBS42 published an article on how food prices are on the rise across the world. The prices of vegetable oil, for example, hit an all-time high in February and then again in March. Joseph Glauber, a senior research fellow, told AP that continued low supplies could force countries to find a balance between using oils […]

Business Standard reposted an IFPRI blog post by researchers Abdullah Mamun, Joseph Glauber, and David Laborde. The post 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. The conflict threatens Bangladesh’s recent progress. According to an IFPRI study, the proportion […]

The Irish News published an article stating that one of the groups hardest hit by inflation and rising prices will be pensioners and soon-to-be pensioners. Pensioners are getting poorer. Moreover, more of their income is being eaten up by the cost of food, heating, and essentials, as the fallout from the war in Ukraine and […]

Business Day Nigeria published an article stating that increasing temperature, erratic rainfall, and other extreme events, such as floods and droughts, pose severe threats to Nigeria’s food production, particularly in the central and northern regions where rainfall is limited and agriculture is the backbone of the economy. Solar-powered groundwater irrigation is seen as a potentially […]

New Zealand Herald published an article stating that things weren’t great to start with. Since the Covid-19 pandemic began two years ago, global supply networks have been seriously disrupted. Factories have been closed. Ships have been stuck in long queues to offload their cargoes. Supplies of primary resources have been slowed. Now, just as the […]

SmogLab published an article that stated Ukraine produces enough food to feed 400 million people on Earth.” A food crisis will be the result of the ongoing war. Among other things, hunger in countries dependent on the supply of grains and seeds from Ukraine, and a further increase in food prices in other countries.  The […]

HumAngle published an article that said the present food crisis is said to be due to limited food production, and barriers to regional trade, among others, which could be directly linked to the ongoing war in Ukraine that is disrupting global food trade. An analysis by IFPRI (see IFPRI blog post, West Africa faces mixed […]

Agri-Pulse published an article stating that the Biden administration will spend US$282 million on domestic commodities such as wheat as part of a food aid package for Yemen and five African nations experiencing severe drought and food insecurity, USDA and USAID. Commodities being purchased are hard red winter wheat, soft white wheat, yellow split peas, […]

Inkstick published an article stating that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has not only created global food insecurity but is also damaging the environment. A study by IFPRI found the rising demand for biofuels to be one of the main drivers contributing to the 2008 food crisis by causing the demand for grain and vegetable oil […]

Axios published an article on vegetable oil prices that have surged over the last few months, as the war in Ukraine drove up their already rising costs. According to senior research fellow, Joseph Glauber who is tracking the current volatility in food prices said, “Palm oil accounts for 58 percent of all the oils traded in […]

Foreign Policy published an article that Moscow and Washington battle at the U.N. to assign responsibility for a looming food crisis that threatens millions with starvation. Even before the war, Russia had imposed export taxes on its wheat, and the insecurity brought about by trading in a war zone has driven up shipping and insurance […]

ABC News published an article stating that global cooking oil prices have been rising since the COVID-19 pandemic began for multiple reasons, from poor harvests in South America to virus-related labor shortages and steadily increasing demand from the biofuel industry. The war in Ukraine — which supplies nearly half of the world’s sunflower oil, on […]

China.org published an article stating that with surging global commodity prices, a food supply crisis is looming large, especially in several MENA nations. The Russia-Ukraine conflict has a profound impact on international commodity prices given the two countries important roles in global grain markets. Senior research fellow David Laborde said, “Middle Eastern and North African […]

VOA presented a video on the food prices increase particularly in the Middle East. However, Muslims break their fast this Ramadan, they’re probably paying more for it than last year. Some of the reasons are the same everywhere. Shockwaves from the war in Ukraine, for one. But in economics, there’s rarely just one reason for […]

Wall Street Journal published an article on how bad choices in Latin America are contributing to global food shortages. Russi’s war on Ukraine is one reason for a spike in food prices that now threatens some of the world’s most vulnerable populations. But it’s far from the only reason. In Argentina, it isn’t even the […]

BBC World News (Spanish version) published an article stating that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has laid bare an international landscape marked by a “new Iron Curtain” separating Russia from the West that some experts fear could trigger a global food crisis. A humanitarian catastrophe is looming. Senior research fellow Joseph Glauber says that “it is […]

The poor are particularly vulnerable to rising prices of food, vegetable oils, and fertilizers.

Daily Maverick published an article stating that the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change raises the alarm – in no uncertain terms, again – about time running out for humanity to save the planet and ourselves from catastrophic global warming. FAO has convened a group to do a more comprehensive, income-sensitive, country-tailored […]