(22 December 2020) Eliminating global poverty can sound like an impossibility for some perfect world akin to a wish for world peace, but millions globally face this as a matter of daily survival. Now, COVID-19 and market conditions that are driving food price inflation have spilled over as direct threats to food security and decades of progress to reduce poverty. The FAO Global Food Price Index reached a 6-year high during the September-November period, propelled by increasing prices of critical food commodities including cereals and oils.
Live data and insights on Coronavirus around the world, including detailed statistics for the US, EU, and China — confirmed and recovered cases, deaths, alternative data on economic activities, customer behavior, supply chains, and more.
(23 December 2020) Even without accounting for the economic, production, and other constraints of 2020 that have led to a rise in global food (especially grain and vegetable oil) prices to 6-year record levels, more than 1 billion people across 19 countries are 'highly' or 'extremely' vulnerable to food insecurity. Food price inflation poses the most direct threat to those countries dependent on imports of food. Knoema's 1 billion+ estimate is, sadly, a floor. It is the minimum of what is a much larger potential range of food insecure given the lack of data for many African...
(Updated: 09 June 2021) How does the composition of people's daily diets vary across countries? Ideally, food intake should be balanced, which requires access to fresh vegetables and fruits, grains, proteins (meats and beans), dairy products, and healthy oils while minimizing or reducing consumption of alcohol, salt, and sugar. For a variety of reasons, income being paramount, disparities in access to quality food undermine the average daily diets of millions of people worldwide. A comparison of data on the consumption of various food products per capita and gross national income...
(08 July 2021) China’s outbreak of African swine fever back in 2018-2019 hurt domestic pig meat production and provided opportunities for meat* producers around the world to increase exports of pork and other meat to supplement China's diminished domestic supply. The US, the EU, and Brazil have benefited the most from the growing Chinese imports of meat, but some smaller meat exporters that had not traded meat to China before, like Russia and Belarus, also increased their meat exports. The swine fever outbreak wiped out 28% of China's hog population; pork production in China...
(27 December / updated 13 January 2022) As Omicron spreads around the world, many countries are facing a new wave of COVID cases. At the end of December 2021, the number of new COVID cases globally was over a million per day — surpassing the rate the world had seen in past waves — and it has more than doubled since then. However, there's a key difference from the past waves: the number of daily deaths globally continued to decline for several weeks even as cases surged. While COVID deaths have now begun to trend upwards, they so far continue to represent a far smaller share of cases...
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