food security

IFPRI-AMIS Seminar: Food vs Fuel V2.0: Impacts of Biofuels on Agricultural Markets and Food Security

With tight global supplies and global food inflation at the highest levels in many years, there is renewed criticism of biofuel policies that divert food and feedstuffs to produce fuels. Biofuel proponents argue that biofuel policies enhance energy sel... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

Food price shocks and diets among poor households in Egypt

Because of its dependence on food imports, Egypt is particularly vulnerable to the high world food prices and trade shocks triggered by Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Imports account for more than 40% of Egypt’s calorie consumption, and th... Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office

IFPRI Blog: The global food price crisis threatens to cause a global nutrition crisis: New evidence from 1.27 million young children on the effects of inflation

Frequent food crises with spiking prices have become the new normal in the 21st century, bringing urgency to the task of understanding their nutritional impacts on poor and food insecure populations. In a new analysis of 1.27 million children in 44 low... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

Policy Seminar: Harmful Environmental Impacts of Agricultural Subsidies (Dec 14)

Event: Harmful Environmental Impacts of Agricultural Subsidies When: Thursday, December 15 (02:00-03:00 a.m. Dhaka time) Organizers: IFPRI and University of Adelaide Agricultural subsidies are high—and increasing—and are largely concentrated among rela... Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office

‘Immediate interventions needed to lower food prices’

The speakers have urged the government to reduce the prices of diesel and other agricultural inputs so that farmers can grow low-cost food that people in poverty can afford The double shocks of the Covid pandemic and the Ukraine crisis have dras... Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office