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The COVID-19 Food Trade Policy Tracker, developed by AMIS Secretariat colleagues in IFPRI, is updated twice daily and provides information about restrictions in food trade and assesses their impacts for food availability.
To ensure sufficiency of domestic food supplies, several governments have implemented trade restrictions, including on staple foods, in response to the COVID-19 crisis. These restrictions may pose a direct threat to countries that rely on imports and may lead to higher food prices.
The tracker also provides indicators to facilitate analysis of the potential impact of trade restrictions, such as export and import shares of affected staple foods in world trade and domestic food production and consumption.
April 27, 2020/ IFPRI and David Laborde, IFPRI senior research fellow
