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Social Capital and Household Income Distributions in the United States: 1980, 1990
Robison, Lindon J.; Siles, Marcelo E. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252211
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Food Price Spikes and Strategic Interactions between the Public and Private Sectors: Market Failures or Governance Failures.
Jayne, Thomas S.; Tschirley, David L. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009
When food prices shoot over import parity, this often leads to social and political unrest and even the toppling of governments. If markets behaved efficiently and in the absence of trade barriers, food prices should not exceed the price in world markets plus the cost of importing it to domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008741303
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Are Staple Foods Becoming More Expensive For Urban Consumers In Eastern And Southern Africa? Trends in Food Prices, Marketing Margins, and Wage Rates in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique,...
Mason, Nicole M.; Jayne, Thomas S.; Donovan, Cynthia; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009
The world food and financial crises threaten to undermine the real incomes of urban consumers in eastern and southern Africa. This study investigates patterns in staple food prices, wage rates, and marketing margins for urban consumers in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia between 1993 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530524
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Improving Food Security in Africa: Highlights of 25 Years of Research, Capacity-Building, and Outreach.
Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009
Decades of research have led to substantially improved understanding of the nature of food insecurity. A combination of economic growth and targeted programs resulted in a steady fall (until the food crisis of 2007/08) in the percentage of the world’s population suffering from undernutrition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008504231
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Trends in Per Capita Food Availability in West Africa, 1980-2009
Me-Nsope, Nathalie Mongue; Staatz, John M. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2013
The goal of this paper is to provide evidence of shifts in food consumption patterns in the ECOWAS countries of West Africa from 1980 through 2009.1 In particular, the analysis is intended to identify major contributors to diets, changes in the levels as well as in the composition of food supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010909782
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Supply Response of Export Crops in Zambia: The Case of Coffee
Mofya-Mukuka, Rhoda; Abdulai, Awudu - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2012
focuses on the coffee sector as a potentially important source of export diversification and examines its supply response to … changes in various incentives. 2) Zambian coffee exhibits asymmetric short-run supply adjustments to long-run equilibrium such … that production rises significantly after prices rise while changing little after prices fall. 3) The fact that coffee in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878815
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Perspectives dans le défi de la coordination de la filière caféicole au niveau des exploitations au Rwanda
Loveridge, Scott; Mpyisi, Edson; Weber, Michael T. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2002
This synthesis shows the need to update and improve household-level information on Rwanda’s coffee sector, so that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519300
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Farm-level Perspectives in Rwanda's Coffee Supply Chain Coordination Challenge
Loveridge, Scott; Mpyisi, Edson; Weber, Michael T. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2002
This synthesis shows the need to update and improve household-level information on Rwanda’s coffee sector, so that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519321
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Rwanda Smallholder Coffee Tree Maintenance and Cherry Processing Techniques: Results of a National Farm-level Survey, 2002
Loveridge, Scott; Mpyisi, Edson; Shingiro, Emmanuel - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2002
Food Security Research Project (FSRP) and Division of Agricultural Statistics (DSA) Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Forestry MINAGRI
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008456968
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Decaffeinated? Situation, Trends, and Prospects for Smallholder Coffee Production in Rwanda
Loveridge, Scott; Nyarwaya, Jean Baptiste; Shingiro, … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2003
Most Rwandan coffee is currently grown and processed the same way it was a decade ago. Consequently, Rwanda’s coffee … production and marketing system has not been able to keep up with changes in the global market for high quality coffee. Given … world market gluts of relatively poor quality coffee, Rwanda is now exporting a product that fetches low prices. Despite the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008457127