MIRAGRODEP Dual-Dual is a recursive-dynamic multi-region, multi-sector computable general equilibrium model, devoted to trade and agricultural policy analysis. It is developed for AGRODEP and draws upon the MIRAGE model built by CEPII.
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Market power and the volatility of markups in the food value chain: The role of Italian cooperatives
Agricultural cooperatives have often been promoted as a way to increase their market power and to obtain stability of profit against uncertainty.
The COVID-19 global pandemic has severely impacted Western Europe, resulting in a high caseload and deaths that varied by country in Spring 2020.
Covid-19 and lockdown policies: A structural simulation model of a bottom-up recession in four countries
This paper considers different approaches to modelling the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic/lockdown shocks.
Explores key emerging issues facing developing-country agriculture today, from rapid urbanization to rural transformation to climate change
Agricultural Development: New Perspectives in a Changing World is the first comprehensive exploration of key emerging issues facing developing-country agriculture today, from rapid urbanization to rural transformation to climate change.
Agricultural development in a changing world
The world has been changing rapidly, and major issues surrounding agriculture have evolved as well. In fact, over the last several decades major shifts have occurred in the thinking on and practice of agricultural development.
Agricultural transition in Russia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe: Ten lessons for Venezuela
Thirty years have elapsed since the fall of communist governments in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The collapse of political structures took with it regimes of highly administered management of agri-food systems.
Agriculture generates roughly one-quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions. By 2050, without major mitigation efforts, agricultural emissions are likely to reach levels that would make meeting global climate targets practically unachievable.
Food and nutrition security is at the forefront of policy making around the globe. This study focuses on a number of Eurasian countries, namely the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
The Statistics on Public Expenditures for Economic Development (SPEED) database is a resource of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) that contains information on agricultural and other sectoral public expenditures in 147 count
A workshop, jointly hosted by the British Nutrition Foundation, HarvestPlus and the UK government’s Department for International Development, was held in May 2018 in London to discuss the potential of introducing biofortified foods into the UK mar
2017 Global hunger index by severity
Note: For the 2017 GHI, data on the proportion of undernourished are for 2014–2016; data on child stunting and wasting are for the latest year in the period 2012–2016 for which data are available; and data on child mortality are for 2015.
Der Welthunger-Index (WHI) 2017 zeigt langfristige Fortschritte in der Reduzierung des Hungers in der Welt. Diese Fortschritte waren allerdings ungleich verteilt.
Der Welthunger-Index (WHI) 2017 ist der zwölfte in einer Reihe jährlicher Berichte, in denen die Hungersituation weltweit, nach Regionen, auf Länder- und auf nationaler Ebene mithilfe eines multidimensionalen Ansatzes dargestellt wird.
The 2017 Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows long-term progress in reducing hunger in the world.
The 2017 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report—the twelfth in an annual series—presents a multidimensional measure of hunger at the global, regional, and national levels.
Policy recommendations
Although enough food is produced globally to feed the world, hunger persists—largely the product of various and severe inequalities.
Global, regional, and national trends
As the issue of famine looms large, it is easy to lose sight of the progress that has been made in the fight against hunger and undernutrition.
The uneven distribution of hunger and nutrition reflects the unequal distribution of power in the food system.