The rapidly evolving agricultural and food security situation in Myanmar requires a high frequency, systematic, and comprehensive approach to monitoring. The Myanmar Monthly Food Price Report synthesizes food price trends using publicly available datasets, focusing on key agricultural crops and highlighting regional differences in rice prices. By analyzing these trends, the report aims to provide […]
The Iran War and Rising Fuel and Fertilizer Prices: Implications for Myanmar’s Rice Value Chain
Myanmar’s agrifood systems have faced a wide range of challenges in recent years, including disruptions in banking and financial services, constraints in accessing foreign exchange, reduced public service delivery, widening conflict and insecurity, increasing displacement and migration, climate shocks, and a major earthquake. The Iran War introduces a new layer of risk. In 2024, 27 […]
Agricultural credit and conflict: Evidence from Myanmar
Access to timely credit is widely viewed as an important determinant of improved agricultural investment and productivity. However, little is known about how agricultural credit markets function during prolonged conflict. This paper examines how conflict shapes both the receipt of agricultural credit and the provision of informal credit by agrifood businesses in Myanmar, where conflict […]
Myanmar’s Agrifood System: Historical Development, Recent Shocks and Future Opportunities
Myanmar’s Agrifood System: Historical Development, Recent Shocks, Future Opportunities provides critical analyses and insights into the agrifood system's evolution, current state, and future potential.