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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...

Key messages: ƒ Inflation is impacting people’s ability to afford basic food items and livelihood inputs. The economic impact on farming and pastoral livelihoods is having...

Food insecurity early warning can provide time to mitigate unfolding crises; however, drought remains a large source of uncertainty. The challenge is to filter unclear or conflicting...

Study region: The study region is the Kamadhiya catchment (1150 km2 ), located in the Saurashtra region of the western state of Gujarat, India. The region has seen intensive...

Aim: the report aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the main drivers of the current food insecurity situation in the Grand Sud and its impact on affected households across humanitarian...

Key messages The warming trend for 1991–2020 was higher than for the 1961–1990 period in all African subregions and significantly higher than the trend for 1931–1960. Annual average temperatures in...

The WMO assessment in this report found, for WMO Member countries (101) for which data are available, that: There is inadequate interaction among climate services providers...

Between June and September 2020, over 330,000 people (29% of the population) is expected to experience high acute food insecurity. This includes nearly 30,000 people in Emergency...

This report provides a global overview of food insecurity due to different crises and natural disasters to support programming of the Pro-resilience Actions (PRO-ACT) funding mechanism, a component of the Global...