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.

An emerging literature shows how the mass arrival of refugees induces both short- and long-term consequences to hosting countries.

"The premise of a rights-based approach to ensuring adequate food is empowering poor people and those who are food insecure.

Food and nutrition security remain Africa’s most fundamental challenges. The number of Africans who are undernourished has been on the rise for decades and now stands at about 200 million people.

New tool for teachers, researchers, practitioners, and others working on global food security: 34 slides on IFPRI's action plan for ending hunger by 2020.

"As part of its 2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture, and the Environment Initiative, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has articulated a vision of what the world should look like in 2020: it should be a world free from po

The role of the state in providing food subsidies to consumers has a long though sometimes ignoble history.

Macroeconomic and trade implications of consumer-oriented food subsidies.

Governments of most countries attempt to influence the price consumers pay for food. In low-income countries the aim is frequently one of reducing consumer food prices below a free-market level.

The Mexican government has been involved in regulating the prices of staples since the 1930s.1 Formally, the dual objectives of this long-standing intervention have been to protect the rural campesinos (peasants) against speculators and drastic de

Government interventions in foodgrain markets have existed in India in one form or another for about four decades, starting during the Second World War.