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Kate Ambler

Kate Amber is a Senior Research Fellow in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit. Kate’s research broadly focuses on interventions that can increase incomes for smallholders and other microenterprises in agrifood value chains, with a specific focus on the inclusion of women. This includes work on programming in fragile settings, innovations in agricultural finance, and regulatory solutions for food safety. 

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The export bans driving up food prices around the world (Quartz) 

May 17, 2022


Quartz published an article stating that in April, India’s minister of commerce and industry made a heroic announcement. The world was reeling from the sudden drop in wheat supplies when Russia and Ukraine, two of the world’s largest wheat exporters, curtailed their exports due to the war, but India would step in to fill the shortage. According to IFPRI (food export restrictions tracker), export restrictions had affected 17 percent of the world’s food, as measured by the number of calories traded, by early April. The number will substantially increase with India’s wheat export ban.. 

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