COVID-19 risks to global food security

D Laborde, W Martin, J Swinnen, R Vos - Science, 2020 - science.org
As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, trade-offs have emerged between the need to
contain the virus and to avoid disastrous economic and food security crises that hurt the …

The effects of food export restrictions on the domestic economy of exporting countries: A review

S Akter - Global Food Security, 2022 - Elsevier
This review summarizes empirical evidence for the effects of food export restrictions on
domestic food prices and the welfare of food system actors in the local economy of exporting …

Without food, there can be no exit from the pandemic

M Torero - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Without food, there can be no exit from the pandemic Skip to main content Thank you for
visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the …

Assessing the evolving fragility of the global food system

MJ Puma, S Bose, SY Chon… - Environmental Research …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The world food crisis in 2008 highlighted the susceptibility of the global food system to price
shocks. Here we use annual staple food production and trade data from 1992–2009 to …

COVID-19 and global poverty and food security

R Vos, J McDermott, J Swinnen - Annual Review of Resource …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The impacts of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on food systems, poverty, and
nutrition have been caused by generalized economic recession and disruptions in agrifood …

Do the global grain spot markets exhibit multifractal nature?

XL Gao, YH Shao, YH Yang, WX Zhou - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2022 - Elsevier
The multifractal nature of agriculture-related stocks and derivatives has been extensively
studied. However, due to the scarcity and lack of representativeness of available data, the …

Mixed messages on prices and food security

J Swinnen, P Squicciarini - Science, 2012 - science.org
Spikes in food prices have pushed food security to the top of the global policy agenda. Price
increases have mixed effects on poverty and hunger: They increase the cost of food for …

Food prices and the multiplier effect of trade policy

PE Giordani, N Rocha, M Ruta - Journal of International economics, 2016 - Elsevier
This work studies the relationship between trade policy and food prices. We show that when
individuals are loss averse, governments may use trade policy to shield the domestic …

[PDF][PDF] Price volatility in food and agricultural markets: Policy responses

O IMF, WFP UNCTAD - FAO: Roma, Italy, 2011 - alimenterre.org
1. Under the Food Security pillar of the Seoul Multi-year Action Plan on Development, the
G20 “request that FAO, IFAD, IMF, OECD, UNCTAD, WFP, the World Bank and the WTO …

Trade effects, policy responses and opportunities of COVID-19 outbreak in Africa

AE Obayelu, SE Edewor, AO Ogbe - Journal of Chinese Economic …, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose The paper is a preliminary assessment of coronavirus disease's (COVID-19) effects
on African trade, policy responses and opportunities within the limitations imposed by data …