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Highlights: Jointly prepared by the World Bank, the World Food Programme of the United Nations (WFP), and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), this report examines how...

This study aimed to analyze price instability in Bangladesh’s primary staple crops, rice, and wheat, focusing on (1) the effects of food price volatility and inflation on food security...

Purpose The first purpose of this study is to examine the impacts of climate-caused cereal productivity changes on food security, welfare and GDP in South Asian countries. The second purpose is to assess...

Key Messages: The general inflation fell to a seven-month low at 9.49 percent in November 2023 after reaching a record highest previous month. Monthly food inflation...

Highlights Findings revealed that all climatic variables negatively impacted maize yield. However, agricultural technology had a positive impact on maize yield. Moreover...

Highlights: We use a risk governance lens to study food system risks during the pandemic. Food system actors and risks were often not part...

Highlights: Wheat producing farmers' adoption to eighteen improved management practices were analysed. Adoption by small farmers was higher than medium and large...

CONTEXT A classical challenge in the search for principles and guidelines to protect food security affordably in the developing world comes from the well-known dilemma faced by farmers who incur economic...

CONTEXT Soil salinity is the main environmental limiting factor for current agricultural farming systems in the Bangladesh coastal zone. Targeting crop selection to ameliorate its impact...

Minor cereals are becoming increasingly important for global food security because of their high nutritional value and their tolerance to environmental stresses. In adverse agrosystems...