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UNU-WIDER experts and the WIDER Development Conference featured in the mediaKalle Hirvonen , Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, was interviewed by YLE for a news article published on 10 March 2022 on the effects of the Ukraine war on global food security. ‘The war in Ukraine is causing a major supply shock to the world...
WIDER Development Conference Conflict Food securityBlog
Infrastructure spend: insights from the effect of a bridge across the Zambezi on maize prices
Investments in infrastructure – such as roads – typically aim to reduce transport costs, stimulate trade, and make new production activities viable. Across sub-Saharan Africa, the need for such investments is widely acknowledged ...
Infrastructure Agriculture MozambiqueVideo
Food Production SystemsConference on Climate Change and Development Policy - Parallel 3.3
Agriculture Productivity Climate changePolicy seminar
Food price policy in an era of market instability - a political economy analysis
Presentation
Distributional Impacts of the 2008 Global Food Price Spike in VietnamPresented at: A Festschrift in Honor of Per Pinstrup-Andersen : New Direction in the Fight Against hunger and Malnutrition. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. Presentation See full programme New directions in the fight against hunger and...
Project meeting
Policymakers' responses to food price crisesPolicymakers' responses to food price crises: Results from a 14-Country political economy study
Project meeting
Political economy of food price policyThis was the third and final meeting of participants in the Political Economy of Food Price Policy project , which is jointly led by UNU-WIDER, Cornell University, and the University of Copenhagen and partially supported by the Bill and Melinda...
Workshop
Second project workshop of the political economy of food price policyCollaborating Institutions in this project were Cornell University and the University of Copenhagen. Please refer to the research page for more information: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy .
Workshop
The political economy of food price policyPlease refer to the The Political Economy of Food Price Policy project page for more information.
Conference
UNU-WIDER 25th Anniversary Conference: The Triple Crisis – Finance, Food and Climate ChangeIn the 25 years of UNU-WIDER’s existence both foundational and responsive research have been carried out, aiming to be innovative and relevant in advancing development economics research and policy-making with a strong focus on poverty...