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Analyzing the Impact of Food Price Increases: Assumptions about Marketing Margins can be Crucial
Dawe, David; Maltsoglou, Irini - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2009
negative impacts of higher food prices. In addition, the bias is not necessarily uniform across income quintiles; thus, failure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005064804
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Agricultural Policy Indicators
Josling, Timothy; Valdés, Alberto - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2004
This paper outlines a methodological approach for use by FAO to collect, analyze and monitor agricultural policy indicators (API) for developing countries. The aim is to establish a consistent and comparable set of policy indicators, allowing analysts to examine whether agriculture in particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755015
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Changes and Potential Resilience of Food Systems in the Nuba Mountains Conflict
Pantuliano, Sara - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566128
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Information Asymmetry and Economic Concentration: The case of hens and eggs in eastern Indonesia
Kristiansen, Stein - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2003
aims to discuss why concentration of chicken feed and egg production is maintained in the central areas of the country …, while malnutrition, poverty and unemployment are high and increasing in areas without commercial feed and egg production … used by new commercial egg producers at peripheral sites of production. Lowering entry barriers into poultry feed and layer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755002
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Have Recent Increases in International Cereal Prices Been Transmitted to Domestic Economies? The experience in seven large Asian countries
Dawe, David - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2008
food consumption and production. This paper analyzes, for seven large Asian countries, the extent to which domestic prices … especially true for rice, the main staple food in the region, but it is also true for wheat. On average, through the end of 2007 … farmers and consumers rather efficiently. Fourth, the experience with urea fertilizer prices is more heterogeneous: some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005064803
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Determinants of Cereal Diversity in Communities and on Household Farms of the Northern Ethiopian Highlands
Benin, Samuel; Gebremedhin, Berhanu; Smale, Melinda; … - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2003
On farm conservation of crop diversity poses obvious policy challenges in terms of the design of appropriate incentive mechanisms and possible trade-offs between conservation and productivity. This paper compares factors explaining the inter-specific diversity (diversity among species) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818735
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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints
Karlan, Dean S.; Osei, Robert; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; Udry, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The investment decisions of small-scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by their financial environment. Binding credit market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected profits. We conducted several experiments in northern Ghana in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083318
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Self-Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali
Beaman, Lori; Karlan, Dean S.; Thuysbaert, Bram; Udry, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We partnered with a micro-lender in Mali to randomize credit offers at the village level. Then, in no-loan control villages, we gave cash grants to randomly selected households. These grants led to higher agricultural investments and profits, thus showing that liquidity constraints bind with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083397
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GM Cotton Adoption, Recent and Prospective: A Global CGE Analysis of Economic Impacts
Anderson, Kym; Jackson, Lee Ann; Valenzuela, Ernesto - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of initial adoption of genetically modified (GM) cotton and of its potential impacts beyond the few countries where it is currently common. Use is made of the latest version of the GTAP database and model. Our results suggest that by following...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666568
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WTO's Doha Cotton Initiative: A Tale of Two Issues
Anderson, Kym; Valenzuela, Ernesto - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Four West African nations have demanded the WTO’s Doha Development Agenda include a Cotton Initiative that involves two issues: cutting cotton subsidies and tariffs, and assisting farm productivity growth in Africa. This paper provides estimates of the potential economic impacts of (a)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661957