ZIMBABWE—AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY POLICY, FOOD SECURITY AND TRADE

Food Commodity Trade

The level of price volatility should theoretically be confined to export parity price levels at the lower end and import parity price levels at the upper end of the price band, reflecting supply and demand conditions during surplus and deficit marketing seasons respectively. A greater gap between these export and import parity prices will reflect high marketing costs, often representing high tr...

Comparative Advantage, Self-sufficiency and Food Security in Iran: Case Study of Wheat Commodity

Food security has a dynamic notion during the time and may be affected by various domestic and global factors.Nevertheless, Iranian policy makers consider food security as same as self-sufficiency in agricultural food products, particularly wheat production. However, self-sufficiency can contribute to food security only if it is in coincidences with comparative advantage and sustainable resourc...

Food Security, Price Volatility and Trade

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Trade and Food Security: Conceptualizing the Linkages

Antimicrobial resistance, trade, food safety and security

The global threat of antibiotics becoming ineffective from overuse generated several apocalyptic scenarios that grabbed the public imagination. These antimicrobial resistance (AMR) ‘superbug’ scenarios helped governments recalibrate policies and regulate to reduce human use of antibiotics. Surprisingly, the other main contributor to AMR antibiotics used in food production received less attentio...