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 …

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 …

covers all exporting firms in 42 developing countries. The second covers pesticide standards for 243 agricultural and food …

-distributed firm productivity and fixed costs of exporting, predicts that, conditional on the fixed costs of exporting, all variation … lognormal distribution of firm productivity allows the Melitz model to successfully match the role of the intensive margin … methods and the EDD, a generalized Melitz model with a joint lognormal distribution for firm productivity, fixed costs and …

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

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 …