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Topic filterAgriculture and food security news API
Farming, harvests, commodity supply and food systems. Pass topic=WB_435_AGRICULTURE_AND_FOOD_SECURITY to filter.
What does the agriculture and food security topic actually cover?
Production, harvest conditions, commodity pricing, food supply and the policy around them. Strongly seasonal, and the seasonality differs by hemisphere, so a global query mixes two calendars.
How do I filter news to agriculture and food security?
Pass topic=WB_435_AGRICULTURE_AND_FOOD_SECURITY on /search or /stories. Pair with a country filter almost always. Brazilian, Indian, Ukrainian and Australian coverage carries harvest and export specifics that international reporting compresses to a sentence, and each follows its own calendar.
GET /stories?topic=WB_435_AGRICULTURE_AND_FOOD_SECURITY&mode=hybrid&from=2026-07-24&limit=20What catches people out with agriculture and food security coverage?
Reading volume changes as news. Agricultural coverage follows planting and harvest cycles, so seasonal swings are structural. Compare against the same period in previous years rather than against last month.
Who publishes on it
Agricultural trade press, regional papers in producing areas, and national business press on pricing. The regional outlets carry harvest condition reporting that never reaches national coverage, and it is the most predictive material available.
In the sample, 781 outlets carry agriculture and food security coverage at about 1
articles each. The busiest is themarketsdaily.com at roughly 2%,
and themarketsdaily.com, tribunnews.com, kompas.com account for about 4% between them.
Flat enough that volume here translates fairly directly into independent reporting rather than one newsroom publishing repeatedly.
What it is best for
Best for supply signals from producing regions ahead of price reaction, and for tracking food security conditions where official statistics lag. Weakest for consumer food coverage, which is a separate body of work with different vocabulary and outlets.
Monitoring it over time
Because the calendar drives volume, the only comparison that means anything is against the same period in prior years. Hemisphere matters too: a global query blends two opposed seasons, so a rise in one is routinely cancelled by a fall in the other and the aggregate looks flat while both halves move sharply. Input costs are the leading edge worth watching separately. Fertiliser, fuel and feed pricing is reported in agricultural trade press well before it reaches food-price coverage, and the lag between the two is long enough to be useful — a season, sometimes more. Query the input stream and the food-price stream as two series rather than one.
Which signals pair with agriculture and food security?
Topic filtering answers what an article is about. Signals answer how strongly it reads that way and in what register, so combining them is usually sharper than either alone.
agriculture— Farming, food production, commoditiestrade— Imports, exports, tariffsclimate— Climate and extreme weather
GET /search?topic=WB_435_AGRICULTURE_AND_FOOD_SECURITY&signal=agriculture&signal_min=0.25Recent coverage
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Who covers it
themarketsdaily.com · tribunnews.com · kompas.com · dailypolitical.com · haberler.com · china.com · tickerreport.com · finanznachrichten.de · insurancebusinessmag.com · indiatimes.com · inewsgr.com · ansa.it
Counts are provisional pending a snapshot against the API.