The 2007-2008 food crisis and current food price swings led economists to re-evaluate the potential for policy … instruments to manage food price volatility. Many developing countries recently pursued price regulation policies, but the … policy to lower food price volatility does not depend on the nature of the policy instrument only, but also on the …

their agri-food products from a wider range of suppliers), while geographical concentration increases at the intensive … food alerts at the EU border that had never been exploited before. After coding it into HS8 categories, we regress the … incidence of food alerts by product on determinants including exporter dummies as well as HS8 product dummies. Coefficients on …

Following the 2007-2008 food crisis, improvements of world food governance was at the centre of international … discussions, leaning towards a new Global Partnership for Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition. In this process, the issue of … to the creation of the High Level Panel of Experts on food security and nutrition (HLPE). Here we describe the genesis …

economy. Zambia is one of the countries in the southern Africa sub-region faced with a food crisis attributed to a complex … HIV/AIDS. The current crisis has been further compounded by reduced food production in the last two consecutive seasons … (2000/2001 and 2001/2002) resulting in the country experiencing substantial deficits of the staple food. …

The food crisis in Southern Africa that stems from the crop failures of the 2001-2002 crop season has, not surprisingly … relief efforts by Georgetown University. In the region, overall reviews have been initiated by networks such as Food …

have not fallen. In fact, poverty has gradually worsened culminating in the present region-wide food crisis. The crisis … will affect over 15 million people through impacts ranging from lack of access to food, food insecurity, malnutrition, and … possibly famine. The ongoing food crisis has had a significant toll and brought great suffering to many in the region. However …

prohibited for food crops. In spite of the positive outcomes on cotton, at least in the short run, and of the persisting decrease … of the cereal production, the hesitation to release GMO on food crops should keep on prevailing. This seems to be founded … when the qualitative dimension of the food production is taken into consideration. …