This paper deals with the role of regional trade in fostering the resilience of domestic food markets. Using country … the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and … pace of regional trade expansion and thus its contribution to creating more resilient domestic food markets through modest …

What is an APEC Food System? Leaders of APEC's 21 member governments are committed to achieving free and open trade and … progress has already been made towards those goals, but least so in the food sector. The latter needs to be addressed urgently … September 1998 that APEC leaders take joint action to develop a so-called APEC Food System to boost the food sector …

We examine the implications of the rise of a middle class in East and Southern Africa for food consumption patterns and … the food system. A unique classification of food items shows that highly processed food has one-third of the purchased … food market, with comparable shares in rural and urban areas (31 per cent vs 35 per cent), and among the vulnerable and …

This paper finds that the food problem can lead to large gains from lowering trade costs for poor countries. To … quartile. Second, for poor countries with the food problem, reducing trade costs on agricultural goods is particularly …

of policies aimed at price stabilisation and food security, with a view to identifying alternatives to meet the same … policy objectives. The paper then examines the most direct alternative to public food stocks for price stabilisation, namely … argued to be necessary for food security, the paper also explores alternative approaches that governments may take to meeting …

In the last years, there has been a growing interest in studying the global food system as a complex evolving network …. Much of the literature has been focusing on the way countries are interconnected in the food system through international …-trade linkages, and what consequences this may have in terms of food security and sustainability. Little attention has been instead …

More and better quality private sector investment in food systems will be needed if countries are to achieve their … Sustainable Development Goals. The key challenge addressed in this paper is how investment in food systems can be redirected such … that it is both adequate to drive dynamic food system development and has the quality of promoting inclusive and …

One third of the entire food produced for our consumption is either lost or wasted at some point of the food supply … chain. The problem of food waste does not only intensify the elementary problem of food insecurity in wasting precious … nourishment - originally intended to be consumed - connected with its economic value, but the processing and disposal of food also …

This article, focusing on produce and grain, discusses the environmental and climate change impacts of food production … environmental energy costs in the food supply …

Almost everywhere in the world, despite the lower agricultural commodity prices, consumer food prices have been … increasing in recent years. Notwithstanding a global recession and the largest grain harvest on record in 2008, food prices have … will rise by 70% and demand for meat will double. In the first ten months of 2009, food prices increased by 9.8%, prompting …