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  "title": "The Food and Agriculture Sector in IMF Publications: A Text-Mining Analysis",
  "publication": "IMF Working Papers, December 5, 2025",
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  "summary": "This paper presents a text-mining analysis of discussions of food and agriculture issues in publications of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) from 1946 to mid-2025, with deeper analysis on subsets of this period for selected publication types.",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Scope: Text-mining analysis of discussions of food and agriculture issues in publications of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1946 to mid-2025, with deeper analysis on subsets of this period for selected publication types.\n- Objectives:\n  - Examine how references to food security and agriculture (FSA) have evolved over time.\n  - Assess differences across IMF outlets and regional focus of papers.\n  - Explore coverage of subtopics of FSA and broader economic contexts within which FSA is contextualized.\n- Data sources: IMF eLibrary metadata and full-text data processed through the Fund Document Extraction Toolkit (FDET).\n- eLibrary context: The IMF eLibrary offers over 25,000 IMF publications in multiple formats."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Methodology and Data",
      "content": "- Text-mining applied to eLibrary metadata and full-text processed via FDET.\n- Period covered: 1946 to mid-2025.\n- Publication focus: Deeper analysis on subsets of the full period for selected IMF publication types."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Key Findings",
      "content": "- Temporal dynamics:\n  - IMF attention to FSA issues tends to peak during periods of global food crises and significant agricultural policy changes.\n  - These peaks closely track inflationary trends with minimal lag, suggesting rapid response of IMF work to crises.\n- Regional prevalence:\n  - Sub-Saharan Africa and Emerging and Developing Asia exhibit the highest prevalence of FSA references.\n  - Advanced economies show lower prevalence of FSA references.\n- Thematic associations:\n  - FSA-focused publications exhibit greater attention to selected core macroeconomic themes (inflation and trade).\n  - FSA-focused publications also show greater attention to newer thematic areas (climate change and inequality) relative to other IMF work.\n- Applicability:\n  - The tools and methods can be applied to macrocritical dimensions of other sectoral concerns.\n  - Findings provide a foundation for further research that can extend the methodology and content of this work."
    },
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      "heading": "Regional Patterns",
      "content": "- Highest prevalence of FSA references:\n  - Sub-Saharan Africa\n  - Emerging and Developing Asia\n- Lower prevalence:\n  - Advanced economies"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Thematic Coverage within FSA Publications",
      "content": "- Core macroeconomic themes with greater attention:\n  - Inflation\n  - Trade\n- Newer thematic areas with greater attention:\n  - Climate change\n  - Inequality"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Policy Implications and Applications",
      "content": "- Rapid IMF responsiveness: Peaks in IMF attention to FSA correspond closely with inflationary trends, indicating rapid policy and research responsiveness to crises.\n- Cross-cutting analysis: Text-mining methods enable identification of how sectoral concerns (FSA) are contextualized within broader macroeconomic debates.\n- Transferability: The analytical tools and approach can be repurposed to analyze other macrocritical sectoral dimensions.\n\n---\n\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2025/12/05/the-food-and-agriculture-sector-in-imf-publications-a-text-mining-analysis-572366"
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    "Authors: Tewodaj Mogues, Papa Niang",
    "Published: December 5, 2025",
    "Series: IMF Working Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229030687.001",
    "Scope: Text-mining analysis of discussions of food and agriculture issues in publications of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1946 to mid-2025, with deeper analysis on subsets of this period for selected publication types.",
    "Objectives:",
    "Data sources: IMF eLibrary metadata and full-text data processed through the Fund Document Extraction Toolkit (FDET).",
    "eLibrary context: The IMF eLibrary offers over 25,000 IMF publications in multiple formats.",
    "Text-mining applied to eLibrary metadata and full-text processed via FDET.",
    "Period covered: 1946 to mid-2025.",
    "Publication focus: Deeper analysis on subsets of the full period for selected IMF publication types.",
    "Temporal dynamics:",
    "Regional prevalence:",
    "Thematic associations:",
    "Applicability:",
    "Highest prevalence of FSA references:",
    "Lower prevalence:",
    "Core macroeconomic themes with greater attention:",
    "Newer thematic areas with greater attention:",
    "Rapid IMF responsiveness: Peaks in IMF attention to FSA correspond closely with inflationary trends, indicating rapid policy and research responsiveness to crises.",
    "Cross-cutting analysis: Text-mining methods enable identification of how sectoral concerns (FSA) are contextualized within broader macroeconomic debates.",
    "Transferability: The analytical tools and approach can be repurposed to analyze other macrocritical sectoral dimensions."
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