Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia …, a region characterized by a high level of malnutrition. The review finds that the level and stability of food prices … play a critical part in food consumption, with rising prices affecting poor households the most. Although public food …

Salinity in surface waters is on the rise throughout much of the world. Many factors contribute to this change … the impacts on global food production. This paper develops a plausibly causal model to test the sensitivity of global and … yields. The analysis trains a machine-learning model to predict salinity globally, to simulate average global food losses …

This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the … percent on average. Escalating export restrictions would multiply the initial shock by a factor of 3, with world food prices … domestic food markets could magnify the initial shock. The analysis shows that, in the quarter following the outbreak of the …

the agriculture and food system, from the perspective of different Sustainable Development Goals, in particular food … (goal 6). It finds that irrigation support policies improve food security globally and can reduce the burden on land by …