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Highlights The global food and agricultural market has become more resilient, but many countries remain vulnerable to trade shocks and should diversify their import sources...

Highlights The EU Aid for Trade Progress Report 2022 is the fifth report under the updated EU Aid for Trade strategy and illustrates the EU’s contribution to the global Aid...

International trade contributes significantly to fueling economic growth and development. However, evidence increasingly associates trade with negative impacts on biodiversity and people. In a global economy, which...

There is increasing recognition of the relevance of trade and trade-related policies and measures to current global biodiversity crisis. Trade can exacerbate biodiversity degradation and loss but it also...

Last updated: 09/12/2021 Currently, the EU mainly uses non-tariff measures both to protect its biodiversity from invasive and/or harmful species and to impede the commercialisation of...

Global trade has shaped food systems over centuries, but modern trade agreements are hastening these changes and making them more complex, with implications...

A few weeks ago, my colleague Francesco Rampa rightly pointed out the need to seek more structural solutions to Africa’s food insecurity, rather than...

Recent decades have seen food markets and value chains become increasingly global—a trend that creates challenges as well as opportunities for food systems. Positive trade...

This article is the third in a series of historical reviews on sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), exploring why agricultural production and irrigation schemes are underperforming, and how this contributes to high levels...

Summary and highlights The fifth edition of the Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM) highlights the relationships between African agricultural trade and food and nutrition security. In particular...