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Conflict, food insecurity, and globalization:

Messer, Ellen; Cohen, Marc J. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

"For more than two centuries, proponents and critics of an open global economy have debated whether the free flows of goods, services, and capital make the world more peaceful and food secure or instead exacerbate inequalities and hardships, fanning interclass or interethnic violence motivated...

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Conflict, food insecurity, and globalization:

Messer, Ellen; Cohen, Marc J. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

"We explore how globalization, broadly conceived to include international humanrights norms, humanitarianism, and alternative trade, might influence peaceful and foodsecure outlooks and outcomes. The paper draws on our previous work on conflict as a cause and effect of hunger and also looks at...

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Renegotiating the Food Aid Convention: Background, context, and issues

Hoddinott, John; Cohen, Marc J. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007

"The current global agreement governing food aid—the Food Aid Convention (FAC)—will expire in 2007. It has come under heavy criticism as has the diffuse set of broader food aid governance institutions that has emerged in the last 50 years. These institutions are characterized by overlapping...

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The human right to food as a U.S. nutrition concern, 1976-2006:

Messer, Ellen; Cohen, Marc J. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007

"For 30 years, U.S. food and nutrition scientists and policymakers concerned with food and nutrition have explored the possibility of making the human right to food (HRF) the moral and legal cornerstone of U.S. domestic and international initiatives in this area. The U.S. government has...

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Collective action in plant genetic resources management: gendered rules of reputation, trust and reciprocity in Kerala, India

Padmanabhan, Martina Aruna - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

the room to maneuver. Do the core elements constituting collective action, namely reputation, trust and reciprocity imply … of gender concerning the core elements trust, reciprocity and reputation of collective action." Author's Abstract …

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The comprehensive Africa agriculture program as a collective institution:

Kolavalli, Shashidhara; Birner, Regina; Flaherty, Kathleen - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012

A number of factors favor a collective strategy for African countries to build their reputation regarding improved … to build collective rather than individual reputation involves the classical free-rider problem of collective action … since it undermines the collective reputation. Since CAADP involves a collective commitment by the donor community as well …

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Traceability in a supply chain with repeated moral hazard:

Saak, Alexander E. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012

Recent food safety events have raised concerns about food traceability in both developed and developing countries. In this paper we study the decision to adopt a traceability system in a supply chain with repeated upstream and downstream moral hazard and imperfect consumer monitoring. In...

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