The invasion of Ukraine has driven up already high global agricultural commodity prices. Fertilizer prices have also reached all-time highs, casting a serious shadow on future harvests, and thus add to concerns about global food security.
Virtual event: Sell Low, Buy Low? A New Explanation for a Persistent Puzzle
Abstract: We provide new insight into the seeming puzzle that many farmers in low-income countries sell their crops at harvest, when prices are low, rather than waiting until prices increase later in the year. We use 20 years of data from 1037 retail markets in 30 African countries to demonstrate that the lean season price […]
Virtual Event: Adapting yet not Adopting? Conservation Agriculture in Central Malawi
Abstract: Conservation Agriculture (CA) has been widely promoted as a pathway to sustainably intensify agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Yet despite decades of promotion, CA uptake in SSA remains sparse with only few analyses of its impacts on farming and rural livelihoods. This study, which focuses on areas in Central Malawi considered to have a […]
IFPRI blog: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine Threatens to Further Exacerbate the Food Insecurity Emergency in Yemen
This blog post is part of a special series on the global and regional food security implications of rising food and fertilizer prices that began with the pandemic and are now exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The blog series is curated by IFPRI Senior Research Fellows Joseph Glauber and David Laborde to offer a […]
Policy Seminar: Retail Food Prices at the Country Level and Implications for Food Security
This policy seminar will explore what we know—and do not know—about how high global agricultural commodity prices and country-specific factors affect retail prices at the national level. Special attention will be given to countries suffering from acute food insecurity and those with a high dependence on imports.
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