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Volatility, in terms of significant and frequent changes in the direction and magnitude of food prices, results in harmful effects [...]

The sluggish supply response in most developing countries to the apparently favourable agricultural market situation of the past few years [...]

This article examines the driving forces behind farmers’ decisions to adopt improved pigeonpea and maize and estimates the causal impact [...]

The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2011 highlights the differential impacts that the world food crisis of 2006-08 [...]

The escalating rate of competition over natural resources has reached important levels. Data on leases and acquisitions of large tracts [...]

A large part of the urban population in Bangladesh, particularly from the lower income groups, meets a substantial part of [...]

This sample spread sheet accompanies the simple price monitoring tool to assess monthly changes in food prices.

Agriculture can be an important engine of growth and poverty reduction. But the sector is underperforming in many countries in part [...]

Smallholder farmers and poor rural households are vulnerable to both economic and social shocks which hamper their participation in agricultural activities. [...]

This paper explores two different aspects of food security, namely undernourishment and overweight in the two Caribbean Islands of Jamaica [...]