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Shaikh, Salman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Economic choices influenced by animalistic instincts in an ethically neutral framework have not only resulted in huge disparity in distribution of income, wealth and standard of living, but, as we now realize, it has also resulted in unprecedented loss to ecology and environment with...

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Reconciling resource economics and ecological economics: the economics of sustainability and resilience

Beard, Rodney - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1995

Cross disciplinary dialogue between economics and ecology has within economics centered on the two subdisciplines of bioeconomics and ecological economics. This division in economics re ects the division in ecology between population and sys- tems ecologists. Recent developments in ecology are...

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Dietary quality and tree cover in Africa

Ickowitz, Amy; Powell, Bronwen; Salim, Mohammad; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The relationship between forests and human nutrition is not yet well understood. A better understanding of this relationship is vital at a time when the majority of new land for agriculture is being cleared from forests. We use Demographic Health Survey food consumption data for over 93,000...

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The impacts of the global food and financial crises on household food security and economic well-being: evidence from Bangladesh

Sonia, Akter; Syed Abul, Basher - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper presents the first household-level study to examine the combined impacts of the global food and financial crises on household food security and economic well-being in a developing country. Using longitudinal survey data of 1,800 rural households from 12 districts of Bangladesh over...

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Assessing Farmer’s Willingness to Participate in the On-farm Conservation of Minor Millet using Direct Compensation Payment

Tenkasi Raghu, Prabhakaran; Das, Sukanya; S, Bala Ravi; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The farmers, predominantly the small and tribal,particularly in regions of rich agro-biodiversity immensely contribute to the on-farm conservation and enrichment of this diversity, often at personal cost. The past and present agricultural progress could not have happened without these genetic...

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Impacts of Policies on Poverty: The Definition of Poverty

Bellù, Lorenzo Giovanni; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This module illustrates how poverty can be defined in the context of policy impact analysis. After reporting and … discussing the definition of poverty as “the lack of, or the inability to achieve, a socially acceptable standard of living”, it … discusses the mono-dimensional and multi-dimensional approaches to the definition of poverty. Furthermore, the module focuses on …

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الأمن الغذائى العربى

Elasrag, Hussein - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

As a result of climatic conditions such as dry climate, limited arable land and scarce water resources,the Arab region is import dependent for most food commodities. There is a continuously rising discrepancy between food production and food consumption.This makes the region more and more...

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تفعيل دور التصنيع الزراعي في تحقيق الأمن الغذائي العربي

Elasrag, Hussein - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

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Socio-economic Determinants of Household Food Insecurity in Pakistan

Asghar, Zahid; Muhammad, Ahmed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This study investigates the determinants of food insecurity for both general and farmer households. It is based on Pakistan Social and Living standard Measurement (PSLM) 2007-08 survey conducted by the Federal Bureau of Statistics, Pakistan. After having descriptive analysis of the important...

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The income-elasticity of calories, macro and micro nutrients: What is the literature telling us?

Santeramo, Fabio Gaetano; Shabnam, Nadia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Food security and nutrition have become central to the policy agendas of governmental and non-governmental organizations due to their consequences on health and economic development. Changes in consumption patterns in response to price and income changes could impact on nutrient intake with...

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