Africa agriculture trade monitor 2019
The second annual Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor assesses emerging and long-term trends and drivers shaping Africa’s trade in agricultural products and evaluates the possible impacts of current trade
International Food Policy Research Institute
-
The food security system: a new conceptual framework
Recent global and national food crises exposed major shortcomings in the way food security has been conceptualized and measured. This paper presents a new framework that operationalizes the universal World
-
Reshaping agriculture for nutrition and health
The fundamental purpose of agriculture is not just to produce food and raw materials, but also to grow healthy, well-nourished people. One of the sector’s most important tasks then is to provide food of
-
Demand and supply of cereals in India: 2010-2025
This paper attempts to project the future supply and demand up to the year 2025 for rice and wheat, the two main cereals cultivated and consumed in India. A review of studies that forecast the supply and
-
Strengthening the role of agriculture for a nutrition secure India
India’s central development strategy should be to systematize structural and sector-specific measures the government can implement immediately to promote nutrition security while not losing sight of the
-
Reducing poverty and hunger through food policy research
In the wake of the food crises of the early 1970s and the resulting World Food Conference of 1974, a group of innovators realized that food security depends not only on crop production, but also on the
-
Global hunger index 2011: the challenge of hunger - taming price spikes and excessive food price volatility
<p><span id="itro1">Growing demand for <a href="../../category/thesaurus/biofuel" target="_parent">biofuels</a>, <a href="../../category/thesaurus/extreme-weather-events" target="_parent">extreme weather</a>,
-
Assessing the land use change consequences of European biofuel policies
A new study by the IFPRI analyzes the question of indirect land-use change (ILUC) in relation to the EU's Renewable Energy Directive. It finds that ILUC issues are a valid concern, but that the impact
-
The quiet revolution in India’s food supply chains
There has been a rapid transformation of food supply chains in India over the past two decades. Modern retail sales are growing at 49 percent per year and quickly penetrating urban food markets and even
-
Economics of land degradation: the costs of action versus inaction
In recent years, prices of agricultural land have increased quickly, actually doubling and tripling in many parts of the world. This land value reassessment has been prompted by rising crop prices and
-
The price and trade effects of strict information requirements for genetically modified commodities under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
<p>This paper assesses the global economic implications of the proposed strict documentation requirements on traded shipments of potentially genetically modified (GM) commodities under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.