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This brief reflects on research generated during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and highlights three key limiting problems that emerged. These problems motivate three best practices that research and policy communities should consider when designing questionnaires and implementing surveys.

This document outlines the best practices for the targeting of social programs, highlighting the key policy decisions involved and identifying factors to consider when making these decisions.

Except for maize, where international export prices reached a 15-month peak amidst supply concerns, global prices of AMIS crops are currently lower than they were a year ago. However, concerns about winter wheat crop conditions in parts of the EU, the Russian Federation, Ukraine, and North America provide support to quotations in some origins.

Markets are also watching for potential changes in US trade policies and the responses from trading partners. This month's feature article reveals no evidence of long-term global yield growth deceleration. Instead, slow yield growth in certain commodities, regions, or countries appears to have been offset by accelerated growth elsewhere.

Yet, caution is in order: Global temperatures in 2024 were the warmest since records began in 1850, necessitating developments of cultivars resilient to temperature and precipitation variations.

The report presents price trends and movements for key food commodities, including dry beans, dry maize, rice, wheat, and Irish potatoes, for October 2024, in selected major regions and markets in Kenya.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
and the World Food Programme (WFP) warn that acute food insecurity
is projected to worsen across 16 hunger hotspots during the outlook
period from November 2024 to May 2025, including a total of
14 countries and 2 regional clusters which comprise 8 countries.
The Sudan, Palestine, South Sudan, Haiti and Mali remain at the
highest concern level. These are countries/territories with Famine or
Risk of Famine, or with populations already in Catastrophe (Integrated
Food Security Phase Classification [IPC]/Cadre Harmonisé [CH]
Phase 5), necessitating the most urgent attention.

The report presents price trends and movements for key food commodities, including dry beans, dry maize, rice, wheat, and Irish potatoes, for September 2024, in selected major regions and markets in Kenya.

The report analyzes the evolution of weekly maize and rice prices in four East African countries - Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda - in September 2024.

The report presents price trends and movements for key food commodities, including dry beans, dry maize, rice, wheat, and Irish potatoes, for August 2024, in selected major regions and markets in Kenya.

The report analyzes the evolution of weekly maize and rice prices in four East African countries - Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda - in August 2024.

The report analyzes the evolution of weekly maize and rice prices in four East African countries - Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda - in July 2024.