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In Southern Africa, despite the eminent food crisis expected in the ensuing months, particularly in Zambia, Malawi, and Zimbabwe, due to the impact of the prolonged El Niño driven drought...

This policy note first examines global trends in the trade of food and agricultural products. Next, it shows how trade and well-functioning markets can address food...

The empirical literature on the impacts of weather shocks on agricultural prices typically explores post-harvest price dynamics rather than pre-harvest ones. Inspired by the intra-annual competitive storage theory...

The prices of the main tropical commodities, which were generally up in 2021 against the backdrop of a post-Covid recovery and occasional labour shortages, have evolved in 2022 in a very disordered...

Trade in pineapples is estimated at some 8 million tonnes (Mt). More than a third of this volume is fresh fruit, the rest is processed pineapple trade. For both sub-sectors, 2022...

This paper begins with a survey of recent commodity price developments that highlights the magnitude of this price surge and identifies the rapid rise in wheat prices as a key element. The analysis in this paper...

This price bulletin was developed by researchers at IFPRI Malawi with the goal of providing clear and accurate information on the weekly variation of retail prices for selected agricultural commodities that are...

The Alliance Bioversity International-CIAT implemented a study in El Salvador, whose goal was to make more transparent the costs and value-added along the coffee value chain, as well...

Smallholder farmers in low and middle income countries often sell the bulk of their marketable surplus immediately after the harvest, when prices are at their lowest...

Haiti is a unique rice market in the sense that, despite the high poverty rates and dependency on rice as a staple, it relies on imports (80% of total consumption) of high-quality...