Trade
Issue paper
2021
Agricultural trade & policy responses during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020
Measures adopted around the world to contain the COVID-19 outbreak helped curb the spread of the virus and lowered the [...]
Briefs
2021
COVID-19 and territorial markets. Evidence from the United Republic of Tanzania
Territorial markets are essential to the livelihoods and food and nutrition security of populations. These markets are suffering multiple challenges [...]
Issue paper
2021
Codex 2020 – What next for standards? Private sector looks post-COVID-19 – Safe food handling practices as important as ever
In a year characterized by unprecedented disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this publication records the steps the Codex Alimentarius [...]
Briefs
2021
Phytosanitary approaches for sustainable and resilient food systems – facilitating safe trade by preventing the introduction and spread of plant pests
This action sheet is part of a series of action sheets developed under the seven key priority areas of the [...]
Briefs
2021
The agrifood system and the challenges of COVID-19, January/2021 - No.7. Trade facilitation policies and measures in Latin America and the Caribbean in response to COVID-19
This document contains a summary of the trade facilitation measures implemented by the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean [...]
Briefs
2020
Investissement responsable et la covid-19. Tenir compte des impacts, des risques et promouvoir une conduite responsable des entreprises dans les filières agricoles
La pandémie de covid-19 menace gravement la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition et a considérablement affecté les moyens de subsistance [...]
Report
2020
Food Outlook – Biannual Report on Global Food Markets. November 2020
As it was projected earlier in the year, while most markets were braced for a major global economic downturn, the [...]
Issue paper
2020
Series: The food system and the challenges of COVID-19. Food e-commerce: situation and perspectives
Critical analysis of the momentum that eCommerce has had in the framework of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, future perspectives [...]
Briefs
2020
Measures for supporting wholesale food markets during COVID-19
Recent COVID-19 outbreaks in wholesale and retail food markets, slaughterhouses and meat processing plants throughout the world underscore the continued [...]
Briefs
2020
The effect of COVID-19 on fisheries and aquaculture in Asia
On 10 April 2020, one month after the World Health Organization declared the spread of COVID-19 a pandemic, FAO published [...]
Report
2020
Food Outlook – Biannual Report on Global Food Markets. COVID-19 Special Edition
Food markets will face many more months of uncertainty related to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, while most markets are braced [...]
Briefs
2020
Why export restrictions should not be a response to COVID-19: Learning lessons from experience with rice in Asia and the Pacific
The spread of COVID-19 has created tremendous uncertainty on a number of fronts, including the availability of food supplies. In [...]
Briefs
2020
Food systems and COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean. Risks threatening international trade
This edition addresses the risks threatening international agrifood trade in Latin America and the Caribbean. In the previous issue we [...]
Briefs
2020
Policy responses to keep input markets flowing in times of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic poses a substantial risk to agricultural input supply chains. It can detrimentally affect access to and availability [...]
Briefs
2020
Wholesale markets: action against COVID-19
The FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean and FLAMA will establish a joint strategy to monitor and [...]
Briefs
2020
Intra-African trade, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and the COVID-19 pandemic
Africa’s participation in the global market for agri-food products has steadily expanded in the last half century, with exports growing [...]
Issue paper
2020
Comparing crises: Great Lockdown versus Great Recession
A comparison of the Great Lockdown of 2020 underway with the Great Recession of 2009, reveals some regularities, yet many [...]
Briefs
2020
COVID-19 and smallholder producers’ access to markets
Smallholder producers’ access to markets is also affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Immediate impacts tend to be more severe for [...]
Briefs
2020
Agri-food markets and trade policy in the time of COVID-19
The policy brief highlights that policy measures should aim to address actual rather than perceived demand and supply disruptions, and [...]
Tool
2019
Aglink-COSIMO modelling system
The annual FAO-OECD Outlook is the result of a partnership agreement with OECD in 2004. The medium-term Outlook provides an [...]
Issue paper
2016
Impact of the Ebola virus disease outbreak on market chains and trade of agricultural products in West Africa
The current Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa is unprecedented in scale and geographical spread. It has placed [...]
Tool
2016
The Global Agriculture Perspectives System (GAPS). Version 1.0. ESA Working Paper No. 16-06
The purpose of this document is to provide a full description of FAO’s partial equilibrium modelling system known as GAPS. GAPS [...]