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July 24, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for reckoning the world’s food systems and has made evident that the global food supply chain—highly concentrated and operating on a just-in-time supply basis—is prone to falter in the face of shocks.
January 15, 2010
President Bush asked Congress last week to provide $770 million in emergency food aid to help alleviate the food price crisis that is destabilizing parts of the developing world and threatening to reverse years of progress in global poverty reduction. Arvind Subramanian, a CGD senior fellow with a...
April 13, 2009
The G-20 pledged in London late last month that they would make an additional $1 trillion available through the International Monetary Fund and other institutions to help developing countries cope with the global economic crisis. If this and other commitments materialize quickly, that’s good news in...