In November 2020, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) published the “Food Outlook – Biannual Report on Global Food Markets”. The report includes a special feature entitled “Recent trends in food import bills and export earnings: the COVID-19 challenge” by FAO's Dr. Josef Schmidhuber who gave a keynote lecture on the impact of COVID-19 on the global food system at the JIRCAS 50th Anniversary Symposium held on November 10, 2020.

The full FAO report is available at:

FAO. 2020. Food Outlook - Biannual Report on Global Food Markets – November 2020. Rome. http://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/cb1993en　

The special feature article is available at:

Josef Schmidhuber and Bing Qiao. (2020) Recent trends in food imports bills and export earnings: the COVID-19 challenge　http://www.fao.org/3/cb1993en/cb1993en_special_feature.pdf

Contributor: IIYAMA Miyuki (Research Strategy Office)