This policy brief aims at informing Members about the importance of transparency in reducing uncertainty and enhance the predictability and stability of international agrifood trade.

This policy brief investigates the links between climate change and food security, examines the trade measures used to combat climate change in the agricultural context, and discusses the challenges ahead.

This policy brief provides information on the relation between climate change and trade, the role that trade can play as a climate change adaptation instrument, and the trade policies that can be used to strengthen the adaptive role of trade.

This brief presents an assessment of the ten-year prospects and challenges for agricultural commodity and fish markets at national, regional and global levels based on the OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2021-2030.

This policy brief provides an overview of the key market, trade and policy drivers shaping the international cotton market, including developments prospects and challenges for the sector.

This policy brief aims to inform Members about the opportunities offered by digitalization in enhancing more efficient and transparent agrifood trade, while discussing the challenges of scaling up digital trade.

his policy brief provides an overview of the main fish pillars associated with the current WTO mandate on fisheries subsidies – overfishing and overfished stocks, capacity, and Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) fishing. It also addresses traditional scientific concepts like the Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY) in determining overfishing, the main FAO instruments associated with capacity and combatting IUU fishing, and the Regional Fisheries Management Organization (RFMOs) and flag, port, and...

This policy brief provides an overview of the latest statistic data on fisheries and aquaculture production and trade, highlighting the importance of international trade to many countries, particularly developing countries. It is also stressed the rank of fisheries and aquaculture trade in comparison with other animal proteins. Small-scale fisheries are also analyzed, including their singularity and characterization issues.

Measures adopted around the world to contain the COVID-19 outbreak helped curb the spread of the virus and lowered the pressure on health systems. However, they also affected the global trading system, and the supply and demand of agricultural and food products. In response to concerns over food security and food safety worldwide, many countries reacted immediately to apply policy measures aiming to limit potentially adverse impacts on domestic markets....

This policy brief provides an overview on the role of digital technologies in optimizing traceability in trade for animals and animal products. It highlights the ways in which digital technologies can the enhance performance for monitoring and controlling animal disease, managing food safety and fraud risks, complying with animal production and food standards, facilitating trade and raising consumer awareness.