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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has disrupted global wheat, corn, and other markets.

The war in Ukraine has roiled commodity markets and raised concerns about global food security.

Except for dairy producers, who have benefited from price and income support programs dating back to New Deal legislation from the 1930s, coverage for livestock and livestock products remained largely confined to ad hoc supplemental disaster cover

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The past four years have been chaotic for US agriculture.

Agricultural policy issues play an outsized role in the race for the presidency if only because the primary season begins in Iowa, where corn is king, and other rural states such as New Hampshire and South Carolina.

US agricultural producers have been hard hit by the actions of Canada, China, Mexico, and other countries that have imposed tariffs against US agricultural products in retaliation for adverse trade actions from the Trump administration against the

Nominal cereal prices in Ethiopia in July 2019 were significantly higher than the year before – maize prices had risen by 32 percent; sorghum by 39 percent; teff by 35 percent; and wheat by 2 percent.

Data from 996 Ethiopian households...

We present results of model simulations of maize, wheat, and sorghum yields in Ethiopia through 2085.

This research note evaluates Ethiopia’s demographic shift over the last four decades while also evaluating potential urbanization trends 20 years into the future.1 Propelling Ethiopia’s urban growth is new secondary city development, ongoing popul

In the transformation of agri-food systems in developing countries, we usually see rapid changes in the livestock sector. However, good data for clearly understanding this transformation are often lacking, especially so in Africa.

Credit markets are key instruments by which liquidity constrained smallholder farmers may finance productivity investments.