How were the governments of three middle-income countries with high levels of non-communicable diseases (NCDs)—India, Mexico, and South Africa—able to implement sugar-sweetened beverage taxes (SSBs) despite intense opposition from powerful corpora

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) publishes monthly Ending Stocks projections, providing an estimate of the end-of-marketing-year inventory of a particular commodity, which effectively summarizes its supply and demand outlook.

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Food systems are under pressure to produce more food of higher quality while reducing the pressure on natural resources. Currently, land degradation is widespread, especially in areas with smallholder farming.

Consumer prices have increased substantially in recent months.

Globally, policy initiatives have addressed food insecurity and the increasing pressure on available land that has followed from growing populations and changing diets.

Coffee is a growth market. Current estimates indicate that global coffee production (in volume) has increased by more than 60% since the 1990s.

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Investing in farmers – or agriculture human capital – is crucial to addressing challenges in our agri-food systems.

This article examines the short‐term effects of the COVID‐19 lockdown on food security and nutrition in rural Guatemala.

The COVID-19 global pandemic has disrupted structures and communities across the globe. Numerous regions of the world have had varying responses in their attempts to contain the spread of the virus.

At a recent House hearing, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said that USDA would terminate the Farmers to Family Food Box program.

This paper considers different approaches to modelling the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic/lockdown shocks.