This paper examines the impacts of the financial, food and fuel crises on the livelihoods of low-income households … substitution for lower quality food, increasing the intensity of work, withdrawing children from school – especially girls – and …

for future CO re-search in the food sector. …

In this study, the focus is on analyzing food demand behaviors in Malaysia. To be more specific, this study intends to … estimate demand elasticities for twelve food categories with incorporation of food quality effects in the demand analyses. This … food categories, especially meat, fish, vegetables, oils and fats, and fruits. The own-price elasticities for rice, eggs …

This study is an attempt to analyze the impact of Edible Oil Deficit on Food Expenditure in Pakistan for the period … has been used to analyse the long run relationship amongst the variables. Other important determinants of food expenditure … negative relationship exists between edible oil deficit and food expenditure and hence the result derives the policy …

The objective of this study is to provide an insight into demand patterns of the Malay consumers for specific food … Ideal Demand System (LA/AIDS) model for 12 aggregated food products is estimated using a two-step estimation procedure. A … elasticities. This study shows that Malay consumers appear to have different food consumption patterns as compared to the general …

Demand analyses of food are deemed important to provide up-to-date indications of the demand behavior in future. This …-economic factors on of food demand in Malaysia. Household Expenditure Survey 2004/2005 data is analyzed by using Working Leser, Linear …

creating Market Information Services for food and agriculture usually fail. The author distills experiences and lessons from …

This paper deals with the question of the trade-offs between bio-fuels, fossil-fuels, and food. To do so an analysis is … results shows that in general food puts a greater stress over the economies than energy does, and mainly in the developing … where it is possible to have an expansion of bio-fuel production without compromising the production of food and without …

Food programs are large and expensive components of social safety nets in developing countries. For agricultural … households, hunger is more acute in annual lean seasons, but food policies typically do not adapt to seasonality. There is … credit and saving constraints generate seasonality, and present results from a randomized experiment of food storage and food …