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USAID allocates over $250 million to Ukraine's agricultural sector: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/03/usaid-allocates-over.html

Interesting work on food systems here: https://www.gtap.agecon.purdue.edu/resources/res_display.asp?RecordID=7329

Almanacs - at least in 19th-c Canada - are an incredible historical source. They published often quite detailed data on the weather, the seasons, money, the economy, public finance, current agricultural techniques, laws and legal reform, officeholders, etc., etc. alongside advertisements for "vegetable pills," newspapers, insurance companies, notaries, and so much more. If you want to get a quick handle on what (at least publishers thought) mattered in a given year, pick up an alma…

Bird flu outbreak in US cattle sparks concern over next global health crisis
Experts pointed to possible obstacles to tracking the virus, with potential friction between public health investigators and the agricultural sector.
“There’s always a tension between the human health people and animal health people,” said Scott Gottlieb, a former US Food and Drug Administration commissioner.
“The human health people would swab anything; animal health worry more about economic im…

More good news from The David Suzuki Foundation
#Coffee grounds could improve farm grounds
People drink a lot of coffee, and some of the six million tonnes of grounds discarded annually into landfills can generate climate-altering methane and carbon dioxide. A study in the Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology finds the grounds could be used to address agricultural contamination. <…

fao_trade: FAO Multiplex Trade Network
Multiplex network representing trade relationships between countries from the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. Countries are nodes and edge types represent import/export of varying products. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 214 nodes and 318346 edges.
Tags: Economic, Trade, Weighted, Multilayer

Shmyhal: Poland's border disputes with Ukraine connected to elections, no blocking of critical cargo recorded: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/04/shmyhal-polands-border.html

The impact of geopolitical risk on the international agricultural market: Empirical analysis based on the GJR-GARCH-MIDAS model
Yun-Shi Dai, Peng-Fei Dai, Wei-Xing Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01641

The impact of geopolitical risk on the international agricultural market: Empirical analysis based on the GJR-GARCH-MIDAS model
The current international landscape is turbulent and unstable, with frequent outbreaks of geopolitical conflicts worldwide. Geopolitical risk has emerged as a significant threat to regional and global peace, stability, and economic prosperity, causing serious disruptions to the global food system and food security. Focusing on the international food market, this paper builds different dimensions of geopolitical risk measures based on the random matrix theory and constructs single- and two-facto…

181,000 units of farm machinery and equipment damaged About 181,000 units of agricultural machinery and equipment were partially or completely damaged. This was reported by the Centre for Food and Lan Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/znyshheno-181-

Ukrainian agricultural sector faces $80 billion in damages amid Russian invasion: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/21/ukrainian-agricultural-sector.html