This article aims to analyze how the Global Food Security Index (GFSI) has evolved across the European countries for the period 2012-2018. In this respect, we have taken as a starting point the Report of Global Food Security Index 2018 as well as the scientific literature from the main stream of...

In 2022, international mineral fertilizer prices reached high levels, which caused concern in the agricultural market. In this context, the present study analyzed the behavior of the mineral fertilizer market in Brazilian agricultural production. Using the SVAR model, the relationship between...

Die Schwankungen der Getreidepreise beschäftigen spätestens seit der Nahrungspreishausse 2006/2008 Erzeuger, Verarbeiter, Verbraucher und Politik. Dieser Artikel untersucht Ursachen von Preisvolatilität anhand des europäischen und des deutschen Marktes für Futtergerste. Weder die seit...

Two trends on yields have been observed for rice, wheat, and even edible oils in Asia. The deceleration of yield growth is one of these trends. The other relates to the differential yield increases across countries in the region. This study provides explanations for both trends and relates these...

The paper performs an analysis of the food balance evolution for poultry meat, taking into account the internal production, imports, exports, consumption levels for this food product. Thus, the food balance had a favourable evolution in the recent years, the market supply of poultry having as a...

Knowledge of demand structure and consumer behaviour is essential for a wide range of development policy questions like improvement in nutritional status, food subsidy, sectoral and macroeconomic policy analysis, etc. An analysis of food consumption patterns and how they are likely to shift with...

The present paper presents the supply and demand trends of rice, wheat, total cereals, pulses, edible oil/oilseeds and sugar/sugarcane. It provides the demand and supply projections for food items during 2011, 2021 and 2026. These projections have been based on change in productivity levels,...

This paper evaluates four dimensions of food security (ie availability, sovereignty, stability and consumption and biological utilization). Finding gaps for food groups: fruits and vegetables, proteins and carbohydrates, from comparing the supply of each product with minimum nutritional...

Dieser Arbeitsbericht analysiert und bewertet die Auswirkungen der Vorschläge der EUKommission zur künftigen Gestaltung der Direktzahlungen an landwirtschaftliche Betriebe ab 2014. Im Mittelpunkt der auf Deutschland bezogenen Analysen stehen die Vorschläge zum sog. Greening, das neue...

Das Thünen-Institut wurde vom Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz (BMELV) gebeten, die volkswirtschaftliche Bedeutung der biobasierten Wirtschaft in Deutschland zu kalkulieren. Grundlage bildet die vom Bioökonomierat der Bundesregierung aufgestellte...