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Indonesia’s cassava push leaves bitter taste in Borneo rainforest (Context/Reuters)
July 19, 2023
Although Indonesia has enough food to feed its people, it lacks variety beyond rice and tastes are changing as the country becomes wealthier, writes Context (by Thompson Reuters Foundation) in a piece on agricultural production of cassava in light of environmental needs and climate change. About half the world’s population depends on rice as a […]
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How bad will things get now that Russia has quit its grain deal with Ukraine? (Vox)
July 19, 2023
“Russia has suspended participation in a deal that let Ukraine ship its grain through its ports on the Black Sea, upending a pact that mitigated a global food crisis. Russia’s exit could again threaten food prices, and food insecurity, worldwide,” writes Vox. “The Black Sea Grain Initiative was “never a panacea for Ukrainian agriculture,” said […]
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Why the death of Ukraine’s grain deal is not moving wheat markets (The Economist)
July 18, 2023
“The deal may yet be resurrected, but the negotiations are tricky,” writes the Economist in a story on Russia’s withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain Initiative. Joseph Glauber, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute notes, the brunt of the effect will be felt in Ukraine. The high costs of alternative […]
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Joseph Glauber on the impact of Russia’s withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain Initiative (Al-Jazeera)
July 17, 2023
Senior research fellow Joseph Glauber speaks with Al-Jazeera in an interview about Russia’s withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain Initiative & what it means for global prices and markets. Watch Video.
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Russia Is holding Ukraine’s farms hostage (Foreign Policy)
July 14, 2023
“With its abundant natural gas supply, Russia has long wielded its resource riches to bludgeon Ukraine, Europe, and other dependent customers. By continuously threatening the future of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, the landmark wartime agreement designed to open up Ukraine’s key farm output for export to world markets, Moscow has also found a way […]
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Rice crops are being threatened by El Nino after grain supplies were disrupted by the war in Ukraine (Associated Press)
July 13, 2023
“Warmer, drier weather because of an earlier-than-usual El Niño is expected to hamper rice production across Asia, hitting global food security in a world still reeling from the impacts of the war in Ukraine,” writes the Associated Press. “That’s bad news for rice farmers, particularly in Asia where 90% of the world’s rice is grown and […]
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Russia’s threat to pull out of Ukraine grain deal raises fears about global food security (Associated Press)
July 12, 2023
“Concerns are growing that Russia will not extend a United Nations-brokered deal that allows grain to flow from Ukraine to parts of the world struggling with hunger, with ships no longer heading to the war-torn country’s Black Sea ports and food exports dwindling,” Associated Press writes in piece about the critical agreement between the two countries. […]
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Women key to crop success in low-income countries
July 11, 2023
This post is a slightly modified version of the original press release issued by the University of Edinburgh. Empowering women farmers in low and middle-income countries can lead to greater crop diversity helping to improve year-round supply of healthy foods, suggests a new article published in The Lancet Planetary Health by a group of authors including […]
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Editorial: Empower women to grow (The Lancet Planetary Health)
July 11, 2023
“Almost half of the world’s agricultural workers are women and women farmers produce up to 80% of the food grown in LMICs. Despite their large contribution to agricultural labor, fewer than 20% of landowners globally are women,” writes The Lancet Planetary Health in an editorial featuring a new article co-authored by IFPRI’s Lilia Bliznashka, Aulo Gelli, and […]
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Low dairy consumption linked to increased rate of child stunting – research (Food Navigator)
July 03, 2023
“The study’s findings provide compelling arguments for policymakers, public health officials and nutrition experts to prioritize context-specific dairy development strategies that rely on the right mix of local dairy sector interventions and more consumer-oriented trade policies”. The article is featuring a recent study by IFPRI researchers Beliyou Haile and Derek Headey, “Growth in milk consumption and […]