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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Child malnutrition and low-quality diets remain widespread public health problems in sub-Saharan Africa. Providing … contexts. Here, we analyze the role of markets and food environments for child diets and nutrition in Malawi along an urban …-rural continuum. We develop a new methodology to characterize food environments in terms of the variety of fresh and processed foods …

for coping with food production volatility. …

This paper highlights the thinness of rice trade relative to wheat and maize, and the contrasting price volatility and … self-perpetuate its dampening effect on trade does not cause extreme rice price volatility in the region, but the other way … external rice trade? The Association of Southeast Asian Nations Integrated Food Security Program provides a menu of policies …

This paper explores the impact of the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) agreement on food security by using a gravity … affect the four dimensions of food security, availability, access, stability and utility. While coordination between SAFTA … members has provided some positive food security attainment, institutional uncertainty and conflicts have prevented the full …