Featured publications
No. 22 Agrifood trade and gender equality: exploring key linkages
07/07/2023
The note analyses key features of the interplay between trade and gender equality in agriculture exploring gender dynamics in agrifood value chains...
No. 21 Trade and Nutrition
11/09/2018
This technical note explores the impact of trade on nutrition, addressing the role of trade in the “nutrition transition” and the extent to which trade...
No. 20 Measuring the cost of dietary diversity
05/06/2017
This technical note describes a novel approach to measuring changes in the affordability of nutritious diets in low-income settings, using price indexes...
No. 19 Ex-post evidence on the effectiveness of policies targeted at promoting healthier diets
09/05/2017
This note provides a structured review of adoption trends of national policies aimed at promoting healthier diets and collates evidence on their effectiveness....
Publications
No. 1 Cotton: impact of support policies on developing countries - a guide to contemporary analysis.
15/03/2005
Subsidies maintain cotton production at otherwise unprofitable levels in industrialized countries Excess supply induced by domestic subsidies has a depressing effect on the world market price Subsidy reductions will reduce poverty in developing producing countries Estimates of the magnitude of the impact of subsidies on the global pattern of cotton production, world market prices and cotton trade vary due to the range of assumptions used by different studies.