affects their domestic food markets. Those actions exacerbate the price spike and international welfare transfer associated …

This paper has two purposes. It first considers the impact on world food prices of the changes in restrictions on trade … in staple foods during the 2008 world food price crisis. Those changes -- reductions in import protection or increases in … to seek a multilateral agreement to desist from changing restrictions on trade when international food prices spike …

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 …

Using a new database on Chinese food standards, this paper estimates the impact of volunta-ry and mandatory standards … on its agricultural and food exports. The dataset covers seven Chinese products from 1992 to 2008. The findings here …

impact of oil price on biofuel expansion, and subsequently, on food supply. The study shows that a 65 percent increase in oil … price would reduce global food supply through direct impacts as well as through diversion of food commodities and cropland …

This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the … domestic food markets could magnify the initial shock. The analysis shows that, in the quarter following the outbreak of the … pandemic, the global export supply of food could decrease between 6 and 20 percent and global prices increase between 2 and 6 …

the level of animal-source food intake, but they decrease the consumption share of fish. This suggests that increased …