Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics Food Security Group

Perspectives

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  Malian Farmers’ Access to Fertilizer Is Challenged by COVID-19

  Published on October 1, 2020
  Malian Farmers face greater difficulty accessing fertilizer during COVID-19

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  Why Mali’s 2020 Agricultural Campaign Plan Needs to Be Reviewed in Light of COVID-19

  Published on May 27, 2020
  COVID-19 has created new priorities for the Malian government to consider after releasing their initial agricultural forecast on March 20, 2020.

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  Cereal Prices Have Resisted (so far) to COVID-19 in Mali

  Published on May 18, 2020
  Malian households are facing sharp price increases on staple foods due to government declaration of the first cases of COVID-19.

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  Rwanda’s coffee harvest will go forward despite pandemic – at a safe distance

  Published on May 7, 2020
  Rwanda will continue to move forward with its May coffee harvest after in the face of the global pandemic.

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  Venezuela: cuando la política económica puede hacer poco, o nada, para lidiar con una crisis

  Published on April 17, 2020
  Luis Zambrano Sequín, Profesor de economia en la Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas, Venezuela

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  Venezuela: When Economic Policy Can do Little, if Anything, to Deal with a Crisis

  Published on April 8, 2020
  Luis Zambrano Sequín, Professor of economics at the Andrés Bello Catholic University, Caracas, Venezuela (translated from the original in Spanish with the assistance of David L. Ortega, Associate Professor at Michigan State University)

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  Perspectives from the Sahelian Region of West Africa

  Published on April 3, 2020
  Three agricultural researchers share updates and reflections on the COVID-19 pandemic