Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has imperiled global food security — creating suffering within Ukraine and displacing millions while disrupting agricultural production and trade from one of the world’s major exporting regions.

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.

The need for industrial development in Africa has become more pressing than ever.

Across many parts of Africa, commendable progress has been made in recent years to increase agricultural productivity; reduce hunger, malnutrition, and poverty; create new employment opportunities; and improve the livelihoods of rural communities.

The 2022 Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor, a flagship publication of AKADEMIYA2063 and the International Food Policy Research Institute, provides an overview of trade in agriculture in Africa, including analysis of short- and long-term trends and

This policy note synthesizes the key messages and lessons from existing evidence and trends in the development, deployment and scale up of ICT-enabled marketing tools.

Based on field visits, structured interviews, and reviews of the literature and secondary data, we examine major challenges facing the leather and date clusters in Tunisia. The challenges vary greatly between the clusters.

The Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM) was launched in 2018 as an annual report monitoring the continent’s progress in agricultural trade development.

This first chapter provides an overview of recent issues related to agricultural trade in Africa. Hence, the next section explains how the unprecedented shock of COVID-19 has had a major impact on trade and food security in Africa.

This chapter reviews efforts to estimate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on agricultural trade, economic activity, and poverty in Africa, in view of the critical role that agricultural trade plays for millions of poor people.

[This] chapter has several objectives. First, we examine the main trade flows (by product and by destination and origin markets) for the three product groups of interest, with some focus on informal trade.

Combining analyses at the aggregate and sectoral levels offers the richest perspective for understanding Africa’s place in global agricultural trade.

[This] chapter has three objectives. First, it analyses the composition and structure of export flows from the AMU countries, by product and by partner, with a special focus on agricultural products (including agrifood products).

African countries have diversified both their exports and trade partners over the last decade, African agricultural trade still suffers from structural problems as well as exogenous shocks.

Rapid urbanization in Africa south of the Sahara continues to highlight the importance of informal retailers as a source of both food and employment for the urban poor.

Продовольственные системы всего мира подошли к переломно- му моменту — масштабы и темпы изменений, происходящих в глобальных, региональных, национальных и местных продоволь- ственных системах, имеют беспрецедентный размах.

目前，我们的食物系统正处于关键时期⸺无论 是在规模还是在速度上，全球、地区、国家和地方食 物系统正在发生着空前的变化。食物系统正以迅猛的速度发展，以满足日益增长且不 断变化的需求，但仍然无法满足每个人的需求。当这份报告付印时，新冠肺炎的爆发 构成了新的全球性威胁。在全世界与这个流行病战斗之际，经济和生计受到破坏之时， 贫穷和弱势群体可能遭受的损失最大。应对这个冲击的影响，包括从供应链和贸易中 断，到严重的失业问题以及贫困水平上升，迫切需要在短期内为最弱势群体提供有效 和有针对性的社会保障。

Nos systèmes alimentaires vivent un moment critique : l’ampleur et le rythme des changements qu’ils subissent au niveau mondial, régional, national et local sont sans précédent.

Building more inclusive food systems can bring a wide range of economic and development benefits to all people, especially the poor and disadvantaged.

Food systems are at a critical juncture—they are evolving quickly to meet growing and changing demand but are not serving everyone’s needs.