Almost a year after the February 2022 Russian invasion in Ukraine, fears of a period of sustained high global food prices have subsided somewhat, but eight major concerns for food security remain. First, prices for food commodities remain high by historical standards. As shown in Figure 1, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) index […]
IFPRI Blog: Food export restrictions have eased as the Russia-Ukraine war continues, but concerns remain for key commodities.
In the weeks following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022, several countries imposed export restrictions—including licensing requirements, taxes, and some outright bans—on a variety of feed and food products. These measures helped to fuel war-related disruptions in global markets and contributed to higher prices and increased price volatility. At the peak of the export […]
IFPRI Blog: The harmful Environment Impacts of Agricultural Subsidies and Prospects for Reform
Globally, agricultural subsidies are high—totaling about $600 billion annually—and continue to increase. The harmful impacts of such subsidies on trade are widely known, but their harmful environmental impacts are less well-understood. This was the theme of a December 14 policy seminar organized by IFPRI in collaboration with the University of Adelaide, Australia (UA).
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- and middle-income countries (LMICs) we show that exposure to food inflation in the womb and […]
IFPRI Blog: Unleashing the Power of Young Agripreneurs
Encouraging agripreneurship—entrepreneurial activity in agriculture—is crucial to addressing unemployment and underemployment among young people in developing and emerging economies around the world.
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