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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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Pandemic could trigger a food crisis UN warns of global famine, 260 million people may be affected (i21st) 

May 14, 2020


i21st (China) reported on the WFP’s warning about the COVID-19 health crisis leading to a global food crisis. Director General Johan Swinnen’s statement to the New York Times was cited. “There is no global food shortage or mass famine from the pandemic, yet. But logistics problems in planting, harvesting, and transporting food will leave poor countries unprotected in the coming months, especially those dependent on imports.” 

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