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 - This paper develops, calibrates, and runs a new food price crisis monitoring framework. The proposed framework has an integrated approach to capture global and national vulnerabilities [...]

 - The Government removed import duties on maize and exempted bread and maize flour from value added tax for the next four months. Maize imports from countries [...]

 - The Beijing municipal government announced the release of 3 000 tonnes of pork meat from frozen reserves into the capital’s market over two months starting this [...]

 - International crude oil markets are an indicator of energy costs at country level, particularly in oil importers.

 - The Government will procure 1 million tonnes of rice and 100 000 tonnes of paddy from the ongoing Boro crop (November-May), keeping the procurement rice price [...]

 - On 23 October, the Government lifted a ban on the imports of basic commodities, including food products, which had been in place since 2016. The measure [...]

 - Intra-annual (within crop year) price volatility and inter-annual (between crop years) price volatility are measured for wheat, maize, rice, barley, oats and rye. A set of [...]

 - On 30 September 2022, the Ministry of Economy and Finance of the Republic of Congo announced the exemption of 16 commodities from customs duties and Value Added [...]

 - In mid-August 2015, Russia announced that it will plans to add new countries to its Western food import ban. The measure is in response to countries [...]

 - Panama is in the process of negotiations with one of the world’s largest (unidentified) rice companies regarding the signing of a contract to package and re-export [...]