Public stockholding programs are essential for food security but can present various problems for many developing countries.

Les économistes travaillant sur les barrières au commerce international s’intéressent beaucoup depuis une dizaine d’années aux barrières administratives, appelées parfois par euphémisme tracasseries administratives (« red tape » en anglais) et à l

Von Tiefstständen zu Beginn der Covid-19-Pandemie sind die Preise vieler Agrarrohstoffe auf neue Höchststände gestiegen, wie zuletzt vor mehr als fünf Jahren. Der Anstieg wird voraussichtlich nur von kurzer Dauer sein.

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.

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.

Many developing economies suffer from a lack of reliable rainfall measurements due to a lack of funds and a shortage of equipment – such as gauges and radars.

In early 2020, global alarms went off as a new virus threatened to take the lives of millions, prompting numerous countries into lockdown.

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many disruptions in the food distribution systems, ranging from health issues in meat and other food processing plants to impacts of lockdown procedures that have disrupted food chain flows.

L’Afrique connaît ses premières victimes du coronavirus : l’Afrique du Sud, l’Algérie, l’Egypte étaient, à la date du 3 avril, les pays plus touchés[1].

Like other businesses, farmers and ranchers are facing short-run adverse effects of the COVID-19 crisis and longer-term recession challenges.

Aflatoxin is a common fungal toxin that poses a significant threat to health and economic growth in many developing countries.

Given our collective failure to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, the world will have to adapt to a certain level of climate change.

Depuis juillet 2019, et un sommet de l'Union Africaine à Niamey (Niger), la Zone de Libre-Echange Continentale Africaine (ZLECA) est dans sa phase opérationnelle, après la signature tardive du traité par le Nigeria et le Bénin, et la ratification

An exposé in Kenya has revealed that there are high amounts of a poisonous substance, known as aflatoxin, in many of Kenya’s popular maize flour brands. This is particularly worrying as maize flour is a staple food for most Kenyans.

U.S. agricultural producers have been hard hit by China, Mexico, Canada and other countries who have imposed tariffs against U.S.

On September 30, 2018, the United States and Canada announced they had reached an accord in their renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).