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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 …
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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 …
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during the global food price crisis of 2007-08, the COVID-19 pandemic, and following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine …
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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. …
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What can further market integration contribute to growth and employment? A series of hypothetical trade reform scenarios explores what countries at different levels of development can expect to gain from reforming tariffs, non-tariff barriers, trade facilitation and domestic support to...
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Some manufacturing activities are among the most difficult human activities to make climate neutral and they are typically regionally concentrated. Across Europe these regions are often socioeconomically relatively weak. Yet these sectors provide relatively well-paid jobs in many of these...
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This report presents policy reform options to support Lithuania in meeting its climate neutrality target. It takes stock of Lithuania’s current and planned climate policies and assesses their potential for meeting the country’s climate ambitions. The report details the results of modelling...
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Climate policy making today demands balancing the need for immediate, accelerated climate action with essential responses to punctual crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine. Meeting this challenge requires a new approach centred on systemic resilience...
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While many countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have committed to achieving climate neutrality and building resilience, translating these commitments into actions is imperative. This requires, for instance, better management of increasing risks from climate change and climate...
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