This study identifies ways in which Africa can realize its potential to secure a supply of food for affordable and healthy diets through the sustainable use of its own resources. The focus is on investment, cooperation, and policy action. The agenda proposed here is intended to be a long-term...

Since the end of 2020, the price of potatoes has sharply increased in Russia. The growth is associated with structural changes in production and a high level of world prices for crop products competing with potatoes for acreage. The increase in the cost in late winter and early summer is...

In 2022, index of physical volume of agricultural output in agricultural organizations, peasant (private) farms and household farms grew by 10.2% as compared to the previous year. In monetary terms growth was 14.8% due to rising prices on agricultural products (+4.2%, i.e. much lower as compared...

At present, grain stocks have been demonstrating an anomalous upward movement pattern. After the start of mass harvesting, the risk of overstocking and grain prices for producers sliding below a comfortable level has been high. In this connection, urgent measures preventive are required to...

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in collaboration with the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) produce long-term agricultural projections for key indicators of agricultural commodities. These baseline projections...

USDA invests significant public resources into developing its crop projection reports. These publications inform decisions across the supply chain. Several previous studies find that revisions to the department’s production and yield forecasts for major agricultural commodities are positively...

The study investigates the impact of bankruptcy reform, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) 2016, on the bank’s transformation risk across Indian states. Using state-level data over the period of 2012 to 2019 and by employing a difference-in-difference methodology, we find a significant...

Market integration is a metric for market efficiency, notably pricing efficiency. This paper examined the type and degree of market integration in Bangladesh using latest available weekly rice market price data from the six district markets in Bangladesh from January 2014 to December 2018. The...