Trade in seeds is key to guarantee access to food across the globe. COVID-19 led to concerns that seed supply chains would be disrupted and that countries relying on imported seed would not have sufficient supplies for the upcoming season. Focusing on the impact of COVID-19 from the perspective...

COVID-19 induced lock down has disrupted the food markets and commodity prices in India. This paper uses evidence from the official statistics on daily wholesale and retail prices (n=284) for major commodities by adopting interrupted timeseries analysis (ITSA). The results revealed that prices...

Despite the fall in the physical volume of agricultural production and exports in 2021, the excess of 2020 figures in value terms stood at 17.1% and 21.3%, respectively. The main contribution to the change in production indicators was made by a 9% decrease in the grain harvest. Losses in the...

This paper explores whether agricultural commodities exhibited super-contango during the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the spot price, basis, arithmetic spot price changes, logarithmic spot price changes and arithmetic basis changes of WTI crude, Class III...

The agriculture saw sustainable production amid the pandemic, growth of 1.8% over ten months. The agricultural sector’s exports are surpassing the 2019 volumes and as early as December exceeded the 2020 FP Target Indicator “Exports of the Agricultural Sector’s Products” amid stagnating...

For the current study, six rounds of the HFPS-F survey are used, mainly focusing on the business closure module from round six. The six rounds are roughly three weeks apart and were implemented between April 15 and September 8, 2020 in Addis Ababa. The sampling strategy is explained in detail in...