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11 Mar 2024
From the United Kingdom to India, from Spain to the borders of Ukraine, farmers across the world have been taking to the streets. While the specific triggers might differ, the protests seem to be driven by similar fears [...]
05 May 2021
The storage of grains has an important food security dimension. A new AMIS paper reviews recent trends in grain stockholding; discusses the two main purposes for holding stocks; describes the difficulties in measuring stocks, especially as regards deriving [...]
22 Apr 2021
Mexico will be the new Chair of AMIS, taking over responsibilities from the European Union at the next meeting of the Global Food Market Information Group in June. Represented through Ms. Adriana Herrera, Mexico was unanimously elected by [...]
12 Apr 2021
One year ago, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. With about 130 million infections to date, and a death toll that is fast approaching 3 million people, there is little cause for celebrations. While the [...]
24 Feb 2021
After decades of progress, hunger has been on the rise in recent years. Amidst a growing number of conflicts, accelerating climate change and economic slowdowns the number of chronically undernourished in the world climbed to almost 690 million [...]
07 Dec 2020
Early in the COVID-19 outbreak, there were concerns that the health crisis would develop into a large-scale food crisis similar to the 2007-08 food price crisis, when panic buying and counterproductive policies exacerbated initial supply disruptions. While food [...]