In August 2022, the Razoni cargo ship, laden with 26,000 tons of grain, navigated a narrow corridor of mined waters outside Ukraine’s port of Odessa.
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In 2022, the world faced multiple crises.
This paper conducts a benefit-cost analysis of expanding agricultural research and development in the Global South.
Nutrition as a basic need: A new method for utility-consistent and nutritionally adequate food poverty lines
In most countries and globally, malnutrition rates exceed poverty rates.
COVID-19 and food inflation scares
Rising food prices during 2021 caused concern worldwide.
Impacts of the COVID-19-driven rise in global rice prices on consumers in Papua New Guinea
During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, several major rice exporting countries, grappling with rising economic uncertainties, suspended rice exports to ensure adequate domestic supply.
Crowdsourced data reveal threats to household food security in near real-time during COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic and related lockdown measures have disrupted food systems globally, leading to fluctuations in the prices of some food commodities, from local to national levels.
Food is the most important basic need for sustenance and survival, and the right to food is among the fundamental human rights.
Securing Food for All in Bangladesh presents an array of research that collectively addresses four broad issues: (1) agricultural technology adoption; (2) input use and agricultural productivity; (3) food security and output markets; and (4) pover
Despite declining arable agricultural land, Bangladesh has made substantial progress in boosting domestic food production, improving access to food by increasing household income, and enhancing nutritional outcomes
Agricultural value chains, particularly in the developing world, have been going through drastic changes over the past decades.
Trade, value chains, and rent distribution with foreign exchange controls: Coffee exports in Ethiopia
Exchange rate policies can have important implications on incentives for export agriculture. However, their effects are often not well understood.
COVID-19 has severely disrupted our lives, jeopardized the well-being of billions of people, and raised the specter of a global food crisis, all in just a few months.
Since the beginning of the outbreak in late December, food prices have remained stable in Wuhan, in Hubei province — and in fact, all over China.
The coronavirus pandemic has sparked not only a health crisis but also an economic crisis, which together pose a serious threat to food security, particularly in poorer countries.
Globally, COVID-19 is a public health emergency with grave impact on the population of the world, especially the poor and marginalized.
Some lessons from a life in food policy
For 15 years, I had lived in a small village in southeastern China. We did not recognize malnutrition when we saw it, because to us it looked normal. We were all malnourished.
This chapter describes three main channels through which changing agriculture can affect nutrition: • the level and stability of real income and purchasing power among poor people; • the relative cost and difficulty of acquiring more nutritious fo
Following poor harvests in the 2015/16 cropping season in Malawi, vulnerability assessments found that nearly 6.7 million people, primarily in the Southern and Central regions, were likely to suffer from food insecurity before the next harvest.