This study aims to assess the impact of short-term policies on smallholder farmers' household food security. It answers three key questions: What is the impact of selected policies on farmers' household food security? What would have been the impact of these policies if implemented perfectly? Are...

Ethiopia is one of the least developed countries where food insecurity is dominant in rural households. Coffee and wheat are the most important cash and staple crops, respectively, in Ethiopia and yet their association with household food security is not sufficiently addressed. This study was...

Ukraine and Russia are two important grain producers and exporters in the world, accounting for 12% and 17% of the world's wheat exports, respectively. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine may greatly impact Ukraine's wheat production and export as well as Russia's wheat export. Satellite...

This report is the third in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy issues, developments and decisions of 2013. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food and nutrition security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that have...

This article presents an investigation of agricultural production risk over time and across space and its implications for food security. The econometric approach involves a Quantile Autoregressive (QAR) model and a copula to provide a flexible representation of the distribution of yield risk and...

Maintaining food security and environmental integrity over time requires a transition towards sustainable food systems. This paper analyzes different dimensions of national food supply sustainability on a global scale. By focusing on four food staples: wheat, rice, maize, and soybeans, the analysis ...

The issue of food and food security is one of the most important strategic issues on the international scene, because of its political, economic and social dimensions, there is a strong relationship between the food security and the national security of any society, and the agricultural development ...

Context: The COVID-19 pandemic has been affecting health and economies across the world, although the nature of direct and indirect effects on Asian agrifood systems and food security has not yet been well understood. Objectives: This paper assesses the initial responses of major farming and food...

Smallholder farmers and pastoralists produce the largest proportion of food consumed in sub-Saharan Africa. However, they remain among the food insecure populations. This paper explores the food (in)security among smallholder farmers and pastoralists using a sample of 175 households in three...

References to 'the Green Revolution' in the development literature over the last decade or two are nearly always selective. The revolution is seen as having taken place from the 1960s in Asia; almost no one refers to the green revolution programs in Latin America during the 1940s and '50s....