Highlights Labor market and urbanization dynamics are key and neglected food security drivers. Food prices reverse to an increase when accounting for plausible labor...

This paper examines the short-term implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for inequality in developing countries. The analysis takes advantage of high-frequency phone survey data collected by the World Bank to assess...

Resilience is often associated with multivalued and multi-faceted strategies, programs, and projects. After approximately 15 years of empirical evidence in the literature, few research questions remain unexplored...

Some agricultural investments are commodity-specific, meaning that they increase the productivity of production, processing, or marketing of a single agricultural commodity or a set of closely-related commodities. Examples include...

This document presents the estimation methodology for the Income and Price Elasticities of Food Demand (E-FooD) Dataset, Version 1.0. The E-FooD Dataset focuses on developing countries. It will...

The Cocoa Barometer 2020 provides an overview of the current sustainability developments in the cocoa sector and highlights critical issues. While previous Cocoa Barometers mainly focussed on...

In this paper, we explore data and the literature to propose approaches towards creating significant impacts on the income earned by commodity farmers and their household members, and towards protecting...

The report through complex modelling aims at answering two questions: First, what does the published evidence tell us about agricultural interventions that work, in...

Across the globe, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a massive impact on food and nutrition security. Efforts to meet Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 on Zero Hunger...

In recent decades there has been a sustained and substantial shift in human diets across the globe towards including more livestock-derived foods. Continuing debates scrutinize...