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Key messages: Africa remains the most food insecure region globally, despite having 60 percent of the world’s uncultivated land. As the continent struggles to cope with conflict...

Recent spikes in staple food prices resulting from the invasion of Ukraine have once again highlighted the difficulty faced by low-income countries that rely on imports for a substantial portion...

The dependence on imports of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for its food needs has increased steadily since the early 1960s, from 10% to about 40%. This import...

Accurate global food losses and waste (FLW) quantification remains challenging owing to limited harmonized global estimates, a lack of comprehensive quantification approaches and an absence of frameworks...

This paper examines the impact of the Russia–Ukraine war on grain and fertilizer supply to Kenya as the sixth largest economy in Africa using the Regression Discontinuity estimator on monthly data spanning...

Many countries use trade policy to insulate their domestic markets from price volatility. However, there is a widespread concern that such policies—particularly export restrictions—may amplify...

Highlights The gap between wheat consumption and production in Africa is increasing over time. Wheat yield gaps are large across most wheat producing regions...

Food system analysis in arid and semi-arid countries inevitably meets water availability as a major constraining food system driver. Many such countries are net...

This report provides an overview of the LCA applied to assessing environmental impacts of production and consumption at the EU and Member State levels as a basis to support several policies and the assessment of their...

The SEMED group of countries are among the largest grain, wheat, and foodstuff importers globally. The share of imports in domestic availability of calories ranges from a sizeable 37 percent...