This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the initial shock due to the pandemic under the assumption that products that are more labor intensive in production are more affected through workers' morbidity and containment...

Die großen östlichen "Getreidenationen" Russland, Ukraine und Kasachstan verfügen über erhebliche Ausbaupotenziale im Getreideanbau, deren Nutzung zur weltweiten Ernährungssicherung beitragen könnte. Um diese umsetzen zu können, sind neben dem Abbau von Defiziten in der Infrastruktur vor...

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 export restraints-were meant to partially insulate...