Reports

Focus In spite of improved supply prospects and weakening demand, agricultural commodity market conditions remain fairly tight, which is the major factor underpinning prices. Production forecasts for nearly all key food crops in 2011 have risen steadily since the previous…

This bulletin covers 66 countries for the period July to September 2011 (Q3-2011). It examines trends in staple food prices, fuel prices, cost of the food basket, terms of trade and consumer price index (CPI) at…

1 . Summary The roundtable focused on the scaling-up of Cash Transfer Programming (CTP) in emergencies, more specifically for the provision of Humanitarian Food Assistance (HFA). CTP includes the use of cash and voucher transfers. The objective was…

La grande majorité de l’aide humanitaire internationale est fournie en nature, sous forme de denrées alimentaires, de semences, d’outils, de médicaments, de matériaux servant à la construction d’abris et d’équipements ménagers. Nous pouvons toutefois constater une…

Introduction The vast majority of international humanitarian aid is provided in-kind, in the form of food, seeds, tools, medicines, shelter materials and household goods. At the same time, however, there is a significant and growing body of…

FOCUS Halfway into this turbulent year and with new marketing seasons for major food crops commencing soon, this is a critical time to evaluate current developments in global food markets and to draw the early outlook for…

Concern Worldwide (Concern) and Oxfam GB (Oxfam) jointly commissioned this report to look at the impacts of cash transfers (CTs) on gender dynamics both within households and communities. This report was commissioned because of the agencies’…

Executive Summary This paper provides a synthesis of current global evidence on the impact of cash transfers in developing countries, and of what works in different contexts, or for different development objectives. Cash transfers are direct, regular…

FOCUS International prices of most agricultural commodities have increased in recent months, some sharply. The FAO Food Price index has gained 34 points since the previous Food Outlook report in June, averaging 197 points in October, only 16 points short…

Highlights Global cereal price trends - Global cereal prices have increased significantly in recent months (July-September 2010), but analysts consider the price volatility to be within the normal range. Global wheat prices are currently more than 50 percent higher than June…