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USDA recently forecast grocery store prices could increase another 3% to 4% this year that will take a bite out of Americans’ food budget

A virtual discussion exploring actions needed to make global food systems more resilient, efficient, sustainable, and inclusive in the face of COVID-19. Date: Wednesday, 19 January 2022-Thursday, 20 January 2022 Time: 22:30-00:00 (UTC+8) Click here to register or watch the live event online

Food insecurity in the world’s poorest countries reached record highs in 2020, with millions staring at famine, a situation exacerbated in part by the COVID pandemic, according to a UN report. From Haiti to Syria, some 155 million people across 55 countries who rely the most on humanitarian assistance were classified as being in “crisis” – meaning in urgent need of food – a 20 million increase since 2019, according to the report released Wednesday. The report – based on a study organised by the Global Network Against Food Crises, a partnership between the European Union, Food and ...

New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp xx + 295, ₹ 895. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp xxiv + 577, price not indicated. Asia’s Journey to Prosperity: Policy, Market, and Technology Over 50 Years by Asian Development Bank,  Manila: ADB, 2020 (ebook), http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/TCS190290.   The transformation of Asia from its status as the most impoverished region to the growth locomotive of the world economy within five decades is unprecedented and nothing short of a miracle. The achievement seems all the more profound when juxtaposed with a very pessimistic outlook o...