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The COVID-19 pandemic is a shock affecting all areas of the global food system. We tracked the impacts of COVID-19 and associated policy responses on the availability and price of aquatic foods and production inputs during 2020, using a high frequency longitudinal survey of 768 respondents in Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Myanmar, Nigeria. We found the following: (1) Aquatic food value chains were severely disrupted but most effects on the availability and accessibility of aquatic foods and produ...

In 2010 the University of Stirling Library underwent a major refurbishment which greatly improved the provision for, and profile of, the University Archives. The redesign of the building transformed the library into a bright, modern environment, the first major improvement of the building since it opened in 1971. A new Archives and Special Collections area was created which allows our historical collections to be fully accessible to researchers for the first time. These collections have grown...

First paragraph: On the afternoon of 21 April 1941, Maria Guiness, wife of one of the leading figures in the thriving English ex-patriot community on the banks of Lake Geneva, composed a letter in which she described life in wartime Switzerland. Her correspondent knew Switzerland only too well. Sir George Warner had been Britain's minister in Berne from 1936 and had only returned to London to take up a temporary appointment in the foreign office fifteen months earlier. The picture of Switzerl...

La Seconde Guerre mondiale représente le point culminant dans l’histoire de la protection de tiers. Jamais autant d’États et de personnes n’ont profité de la protection d’un tiers neutre, ni avant, ni depuis. Dans cette histoire, la Confédération suisse détient une place de choix. Les Suisses avaient déjà acquis une réputation de solidité pendant la Grande Guerre, mais cela avait également été le cas de l’Espagne, du Danemark, des États-Unis et de la Suède. En 1945 cependant, l’éventail des a...