This section serves as a repository for economic modeling tools, scenario analyses tools, and policy tracker tools originally developed to address specific historical market shocks and global events. While the datasets within these tools are no longer updated in real-time, they remain accessible here to serve as references for reviewing the frameworks used to assess past food security, understanding the impact of historical supply chain disruptions, and accessing simulations related to previous global market conditions.
Please note that these resources are static. For current data on food prices, export restrictions, fertilizer markets and others, please refer to our active tools in the main tool list page.
Domestic Food Price Monitor
The Food Price Monitor provides daily updates of prices in wholesale and retail markets for a wide range of food products. Alerts refer to price changes from the start of social distancing measures taken because of COVID-19 and are based on a pre-COVID-19 reference price.
Climate adaptation in the agrifood system
The effects of climate change are already being felt, and they are projected to worsen in the course of the 21st century, with impacts varying by region. Adaptation is critical to continue pursuing sustainable development goals (SDGs), including on fighting poverty (SDG1), hunger (SDG2), and managing water resources (SDG6).
The global economic consequences of a major African swine fever outbreak in China
As the world deals with the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, the international community has started discussing more urgently how land use change and the conversion of natural habitats to agricultural or urban ecosystems can affect the risk and emergence of zoonotic diseases in humans as well as the spread of new pathogens and diseases in livestock.
COVID-19 Impacts on Global Poverty
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, social and economic relief measures—including fiscal stimulus and expansion of social safety nets—are crucial to prevent poverty and hunger from rising dramatically in developing countries.
Food Price Media Analysis
While the impact of rising food prices may be clear, the root causes of such price increases often are not. The role of various short- and long-term factors, such as the growth of commodities futures markets and changing levels of grain stocks, continues to be debated. This tool generates up-to-date media daily analysis of factors that may influence commodity price volatility and food security.
COVID-19 Policy Response (CPR) Portal
The spread of COVID-19, as well as the wide range of policy responses enacted around the world to contain the pandemic, have exerted wide-ranging effects on agri-food systems and livelihoods.
Impacts Of Alternative Investment Scenarios
The International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and aTrade (IMPACT) explores policies that can help feed the world, reduce poverty, and protect the natural resource base. Here we examine how alternative investment scenarios affect agricultural production, productivity, and food security for the period 2010-2050 compared to a reference scenario.
Progress Towards Ending Hunger And Malnutrition: A Cross-Country Cluster Analysis
The fight against hunger is not over yet. A fight against overweight and obesity must begin. Here you can find how patterns of malnutrition are evolving across the globe.
Agricultural Subsidies and Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Agricultural production is both strongly affected by and a major contributor to climate change, accounting for a quarter of total global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG). Agriculture receives around US$600 billion per year worldwide in government support. However, no rigorous quantification of the impact of this support on GHG emissions has been available until now.
Crop Diseases Media Analysis
Crop pest and disease outbreaks pose significant threats to global food security by reducing food quantity and quality, leading to potential shortages, price spikes, and hunger. Smallholder farmers in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to these disruptions. To address this challenge, the Food Security Portal, in collaboration with the CGIAR Plant Health Initiative, has developed an real-time media analysis system to monitor the top five prioritized crop pests and diseases.