Selected Media Appearances
2021-2022
Interviewed in “UN Calls on Latin American Governments to Strengthen Food Production,”
CNN Español, December 6, 2022 (Español)
Interviewed in “Follow the Food Series 3: The Fight to Feed Humanity,” (Minute 5:05)
BBC, November 7, 2022
Cited in “UN: Agricultural Automation Can Boost Global Food Production,”
Voice of America, November 2, 2022
Interviewed in “Russia’s Exit From Grain Deal Could Raise Food Prices: UN,”
CNBC International TV, October 31, 2022
Interviewed in “World Food Prices Extend Drops,” (Minute 14:20)
Bloomberg, September 7, 2022
Interviewed in “This Year, There Are Expensive Food; Next Year, There May Be Much Less Food,”
El País, August 15, 2022 (Español)
Interviewed in “Ukraine Ships Grain at Last. It Will Take Far More to Slow Global Hunger,”
The New York Times, August 1, 2022
Interviewed in “Energy and Food Prices Strain Family Budgets,”
CNN Español, July 27, 2022 (Español)
Interviewed in “Food Security Worsens,”
CGTN, July 10, 2022
Quoted in “Food Prices Fall in June, Cereal Output Seen Slightly Higher,”
Reuters, July 8, 2022
Interviewed in “Helping Ukrainian Farmers Is Challenging,”
DW, June 7, 2022
Interviewed in “Deeply Rooted: The Rise of Food and Fertilizer Prices,”
NPR, May 31, 2022
Interviewed in ““In Peru, We Have Found Levels of Famine Not Seen Before,”
El Comercio, May 29, 2022 (Español)
Interviewed in “UN Urges Countries to Share Information of Food Availability,”
Bloomberg Daybreak: Australia, May 26, 2022
Interviewed in “The Wheat Emergency Can Be Managed This Year. It Will Be a Crisis Next Year If the War Doesn’t Stop,“
Rai News, May 24, 2022 (Italiano)
Interviewed in “Ditching Gas to Save the Planet Risks Mass Starvation,”
Politico, May 17, 2022
Interviewed in “Food Prices Ease Slightly in April After Record Surge,”
Reuters, May 6, 2022
Interviewed in “As Sanctions Bite Russia, Fertilizer Shortage Imperils World Food Supply,”
Reuters, March 24, 2022
Interviewed in “Ukraine War Impacts Food Supplies,”
BBC World News, March 15, 2022
Interviewed in “Ukraine Invasion May Lead to Worldwide Food Crisis, Warns UN,”
The Guardian, March 14, 2022
Interviewed in “Ukraine War and Global Food Supplies,”
CGTN Europe, March 12, 2022
Interviewed in “Food in a Conflict Scenario,”
CNN Español, February 14, 2022 (Español)
Interviewed in “Amid Drought, Conflict and Rocketing Prices, a Global Food Crisis Could Be Approaching,”
The Washington Post, December 15, 2021
Interviewed in “Hunger, a Problem of the Covid-19 Pandemic,”
CNN Español, November 1, 2021 (Español)
Interviewed in “FAO’s Chief Economist Talks ‘World Food Day,'”
World Radio Switzerland, October 14, 2021
Interviewed in “Equality: FAO’s Chief Economist on Global Food Outlook,”
Bloomberg, July 30, 2021
Interviewed in “The Need for Food in Cuba and Haiti,“
CNN Español, July 14, 2021 (Español)
Interviewed in “Pandemic-Driven Hunger Is Making the World More Unequal,”
The Washington Post, July 12, 2021
Interviewed in “UN: World Hunger Was Dramatically Worse in Pandemic Year,“
The Associated Press, July 12, 2021
Cited in “Global Food Prices May Ease Next Year After Recent Surge,”
Bloomberg, July 5, 2021
Interviewed in “Food Prices Rise Globally,”
CNN Español, June 3, 2021 (Español)
Interviewed in “Latin America Suffers From COVID-19-Induced Food Insecurity,”
CNN Español, April 19, 2021 (Español)
Interviewed in “We Have Lost a Decade in the Fight Against Extreme Poverty,”
El País, April 17, 2021 (Español)
Cited in “UN Warns Disasters Wreak Havoc With Food Production,”
Voice of America, March 19, 2021
Maximo Torero 