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Food Value Chains' Contributions to Climate and Sustainability Goals

Aug 5, 2024 | iaae.confex.com | Johan Swinnen |Thomas J. Reardon |Rob Vos

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Sudan Is Now Confronting Its Most Severe Food Security Crisis On Record| Countercurrents

Jul 9, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Khalid Siddig |Rob Vos |Ellen Isaacs |Bharat Dogra

by Khalid Siddig and Rob VosAfter 14 months of escalating internal conflict, Sudan is now confronting its most severe food security crisis on record. The latest situation report, released on 27 June, reveals a grim picture: more than half the population of 47.2 million is facing acute food insecurity. This signifies severe lack of food, high malnutrition and starvation leading to death. There is also a high risk of famine in multiple regions if immediate action is not taken.
France's election: taking stock of a startling outcome

Jul 9, 2024 | dehai.org | David Lees |Alex Nurse |Khalid Siddig |Rob Vos

Despite weeks of opinion polls predicting France’s far right would sweep to power in the legislative elections, Sunday’s second round of polling resulted in Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) and its allies being forced into third place by the New Popular Front alliance of leftwing and green parties, and Emmanuel Macron’s centrist Ensemble coalition. France will now have a hung parliament. David Lees looks at what ‘s happened.
Sudan is now confronting its most severe food security crisis on record

Jul 7, 2024 | theconversation.com | Khalid Siddig |Rob Vos

After 14 months of escalating internal conflict, Sudan is now confronting its most severe food security crisis on record. The latest situation report, released on 27 June, reveals a grim picture: more than half the population of 47.2 million is facing acute food insecurity. This signifies severe lack of food, high malnutrition and starvation leading to death. There is also a high risk of famine in multiple regions if immediate action is not taken.
Famine in Gaza, questions for research and preventive action - Nature Food

May 15, 2024 | nature.com | Rob Vos

ReferencesIPC Global Initiative – Special Brief. The Gaza Strip (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, 2024); https://go.nature.com/4blBzFtVos, R. The population of Gaza is on the brink of famine. International Food Policy Research Institute (22 December 2023). UN Country Team in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Gaza Ten Years Later (United Nations, 2017).
Famine in Gaza

Mar 18, 2024 | cgiar.org | Rob Vos |Ismahane Elouafi |Johan Swinnen

Is it too late to save Gaza’s population from famine? The latest assessment of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) global partnership suggests this is imminent for at least half the population of 2.2 million. The assessment estimates that 685,000 people faced “catastrophic” levels of acute food insecurity or famine-like conditions as of early March—a clear deterioration from a previous assessment in December 2023.
Despite improved global market conditions, high food price inflation persists

Dec 4, 2023 | cgiar.org | Rob Vos |Joseph W. Glauber |Soonho Kim |Will Martin

OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0Since peaking in April 2022, global agricultural food commodity prices have declined by almost 25% as of October 2023, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) food price index (Figure 1). Contributing to the decrease were strong harvests in large food producing countries, steep declines in shipping costs, and more affordable energy and fertilizer prices (Figure 2).
End of the Black Sea Grain Initiative: Implications for sub-Saharan Africa

Aug 7, 2023 | cgiar.org | Joseph W. Glauber |Soonho Kim |Elsa Olivetti |Rob Vos

OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0Russia’s July 17withdrawalfrom the Black Sea Grain Initiative (BSGI), has sparked fears of reduced exports of wheat and other key commodities to developing countries, along with other market disruptions. The grain deal, in place for almost a year, had clear benefits for global markets and food security.
Eastern European farmers protest gluts of Ukraine food exports: The struggle to keep solidarity lanes open

Apr 26, 2023 | cgiar.org | Rob Vos |Joseph W. Glauber |Southern Africa

OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0Following fierce farm protests over gluts of Ukrainian grain and other food items in their domestic markets, four European Union countries—Poland, Slovakia, Bulgaria, and Hungary—have temporarily imposed import restrictions on key agricultural products from Ukraine. Restrictions in Bulgaria entered into force on April 24, and Romania, another EU member, hasconsidered similar measures.