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other regions in the world to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The region also faces challenges from other emerging … diseases, re-emerging diseases, and climate change. Since 2020, the Central Asian regional economies, as the rest of the world … to another, with impact on animal health, trade, food security, food safety and possibly creating public health …
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Reducing malnutrition is a cornerstone of poverty reduction. General malnutrition and specific micronutrient deficiencies contribute to infant, child, and maternal morbidity; decreased learning capacity; lower productivity and higher mortality. Because malnutrition is often due to a combination...
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This report focuses on growing trade in food staples in the Southern and Eastern African region of Africa as one of the … largest growth opportunities available to African farmers. This paper examines the impact of regional trade in food staples …, both for maintaining farmer incentives in surplus food production zones and for moderating price spikes in deficit areas …
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Africa's growing demand for food has been met increasingly by imports from the global market. This, coupled with rising … global food prices, brings ever-mounting food import bills. In addition, population growth and changing demand patterns will … impacts on poverty. The report highlights the range of barriers to food trade in Africa along the entire value chain. The …
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The recurrent global food price spikes in 2008 and 2010 rekindled interest in the use of national food grain stockpiles … ('stocks') to enhance food security. They were a commonly used instrument in government responses to these food prices spikes …. They were also widely considered as a useful tool after the 1974 food crisis and its associated food price volatility and …
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The eighth joint UNCITRAL/INSOL/World Bank multinational judicial colloquium was held in Vancouver, Canada on 20 …
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volatility and its effects on food security is a complex issue with many dimensions, agricultural and non-agricultural, short and …
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