The COVID-19 pandemic placed unprecedented short-term stresses on food supply chains around the world. However, rapid … outbreak of COVID-19, food systems were faced with a formidable “triple challenge” of simultaneously providing food security … and nutrition to a growing global population, ensuring the livelihoods of millions of people working along the food chain …

Early in the COVID-19 outbreak, there were concerns that the health crisis would develop into a large-scale food crisis … similar to the 2007-08 food price crisis, when panic buying and counterproductive policies exacerbated initial supply … disruptions. While food supply chains have seen disruptions, and there are future risks that require attention, a food price …

opportunities to increase income and jobs through increasing agro-food sector participation in global and domestic value chains …. Countries can enhance the overall competitiveness of their agro-food sectors though more open trade policies and reducing the …, including to agro-food imports; ensuring that non-tariff measures are appropriate, transparent, and science-based; and reducing …

during the global food price crisis of 2007-08, the COVID-19 pandemic, and following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine …

considers the impact of demographic and non-demographic effects for both health and long-term care. Compared with other studies …, the paper extends the demographic drivers by incorporating death-related costs and the health status of the population …. Concerning non-demographic drivers of health care, the projection method accounts for income elasticity and a residual effect of …

This report, part of the “Cities” collection, analyses the spatial distribution of formal enter¬prises and health … the potential for economic development throughout the country. The mapping of health infrastructure shows that border …. The report identifies several regions in which closer co-operation could favour the establishment of cross-border health …