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 …

This study examines how changes to the functioning of the world’s food and agriculture system can contribute to reduced … hunger and the attainment of global food security. The challenge is wide ranging and multi-faceted. While food production … productivity and contain upward pressure on food prices. They can also help ensure that land and water resources are used more …

Even before the outbreak of COVID-19, global 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 from farm to fork, and ensuring the environmental sustainability of the sector. Yet policy …

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 …

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 …

agriculture and food. The food and agriculture sector is increasingly organised within GVC around a number of global hubs. Agro-food … trade, especially services trade, can positively influence domestic value added creation in agro-food GVCs. However, trade … across the food and agriculture sectorKeywords: Agro-food, value added, employment, policy reform, trade. …