The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting national economies through several channels including global primary commodity trade and market disruptions.

Mark Twain once warned, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Yet statistics are a fundamental tool for economic policy and decision-making by governments, international institutions, and even the private sector.

Chapter 8, “Evolving Animal Sourced Foods and Livestock Markets,” covers the changing situation in livestock marketing systems.

The second part of the book, “Evolving Markets and Household Consumption,” begins with Chapter 7 on “Evolving Food Value Chains.” Ethiopia’s food systems are changing rapidly as high population growth, rapid urbanization, major infrastructure inve

This paper presents results of a data partnership framework for strengthening evidence-based planning and implementation that was initiated in 2019 in five selected African countries (Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Senegal, and Togo) during the second

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is a rude awakening to many who believed the era of infectious disease was over.

There is a widespread belief that China plays a fundamental role in African economies, but few rigorous empirical studies to back up this view.

Given the importance of agriculture in developing economies, food processing industries often dominate employment and value addition in the industrial sector in these settings.

Beginning in April 2008, lack of access to foreign exchange effectively stopped private sector wheat imports.

This paper examines macro-economic developments in Ethiopia between 2004/05 and 2008/09, focusing on the external accounts and the real exchange rate.

In spite of remarkable growth in Ethiopia’s agricultural production and overall real incomes (GDP/capita) from 2004/05 to 2008/09, prices of major cereals (teff, maize, wheat and sorghum) have fluctuated sharply in both nominal and real terms.

Ethiopia enjoyed remarkable economic growth from 2004/05 to 2008/09, in large part due to increases in foreign transfers and capital inflows combined with expanded domestic credit to fund major increases in private and public investments in infras

"Higher world food prices have led many governments in developing countries to adopt policy measures to mitigate the adverse impact on low-income households.