Filters
Found 2927 Results
-
Untapped potential in agriculture can help food security – USAID/Nigeria (News Agency Nigeria)
August 26, 2022
News Agency Nigeria posted an article on the launch of the National Agricultural Technology and Innovation Policy (NATIP) 2022 – 2027. Agriculture is important to the growth and development of the economy, adding that in 2020, agriculture contributed over 25 percent to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The new policy is a deliberate effort by […]
-
Strength to you, independent Ukraine (Monitor)
August 24, 2022
Monitor (Uganda Edition) published an article stating that August 24 also marks six months since Russia launched its brutal, illegal invasion of the sovereign nation of Ukraine. Since Ukraine’s independence in 1991, a proud, internationally engaged country, and one committed to freedom and the principles of the UN Charter, has emerged. Ukraine has become a […]
-
To ease the world food crisis, focus resources on women and girls (Nature)
August 24, 2022
Nature published an op-ed by senior scientist Elizabeth Bryan, deputy director of the Environment and Production Technology division Claudia Ringler, and Nicole Lefore, director at the Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture in College Station on how the global effects of the Ukraine war hit girls and women the hardest, exacerbating inequalities. Aid programs must […]
-
Reducing settlement, payment risks in agric (The Nation)
August 24, 2022
The Nation (Nigeria) published an article on markets in Africa are creating vast opportunities for economic growth. Africa’s food market, according to a World Bank report on agribusiness in Africa, may hit $939 billion by 2030. However, there is a challenge in the sector: the lingering settlement and payment gap in transactions, which is making […]
-
Our view: USDA micro-grants for farmers critical for building food security (Guam Pacific Daily News)
August 23, 2022
Guam PDN published an article on IFPRI’s latest findings on climate change from the 2022 Global Food Policy Report. According to IFPRI, climate changes, a growing population, rising food prices, and environmental factors have significant impacts on food security.
-
Extreme weather: India and the rest of the world yet to wake up to climate change (News 9 Live)
August 22, 2022
News 9 Live published an article on climate change. Climate change became a mainstream issue in early 1990, and yet over the three decades, skepticism and foot-dragging by world leaders have worsened the impact, to the extent that lives and livelihoods across the globe are now at stake. The effects of global warming, like symptoms […]
-
Ukraine shipping more grain (Southeast Ag Net Radio Network)
August 22, 2022
Southeast AgNet published an article stating that ships are once again sailing from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports. But most of those ships with grain, sunflower, soy, and wheat were not headed to needy countries or carried grain stolen by Russia to ally Syria, and tonnage was far short of that in Ukraine silos. Senior research […]
-
Soaring fertilizer prices deepen Africa’s food crisis (Financial Times)
August 22, 2022
Financial Times published an article on how the price of nitrogen-based fertilizers, which use gas as feedstock and typically provide for up to two-thirds of the nutrients used to grow crops, has risen in line with natural gas prices in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They hit record highs after sanctions on Moscow, […]
-
Making healthier choices, eating affordable packaged rice (This Day Live)
August 22, 2022
This Day Live published an article stating that according to a report by IFPRI titled “The Nigerian rice economy: Policy options for transforming production, marketing, and trade” over the past few decades, rice has become one of the leading food staples in Nigeria. It stated that given the fact that a large amount of rice […]
-
Climate change is adversely affecting health. Are people aware? (Financial Express)
August 21, 2022
Financial Express published an article stating that extreme heat waves, wildfires, and several other natural calamities are proof of the impacts of the changing climatic conditions. According to a survey published by IFPRI (See 2022 Global Food Policy Report). The findings of the report also revealed that South Asia is significantly lagging in terms of […]