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This report focuses on growing trade in food staples in the Southern and Eastern African region of Africa as one of the … largest growth opportunities available to African farmers. This paper examines the impact of regional trade in food staples …, both for maintaining farmer incentives in surplus food production zones and for moderating price spikes in deficit areas …
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"Food policy often depends on markets and markets depend on institutions. But how good do institutions have to be … Bulgaria and the World Bank on agricultural market institutions, this paper presents evidence that performance in food markets …
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Reducing malnutrition is a cornerstone of poverty reduction. General malnutrition and specific micronutrient deficiencies contribute to infant, child, and maternal morbidity; decreased learning capacity; lower productivity and higher mortality. Because malnutrition is often due to a combination...
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global food prices, brings ever-mounting food import bills. In addition, population growth and changing demand patterns will … impacts on poverty. The report highlights the range of barriers to food trade in Africa along the entire value chain. The … finance. This in turn requires a "whole of government' approach to freeing up food trade, which will require strong and …
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The recurrent global food price spikes in 2008 and 2010 rekindled interest in the use of national food grain stockpiles … ('stocks') to enhance food security. They were a commonly used instrument in government responses to these food prices spikes …. They were also widely considered as a useful tool after the 1974 food crisis and its associated food price volatility and …
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to another, with impact on animal health, trade, food security, food safety and possibly creating public health …
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"The records of traditional safeguard provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade …, transparent, and participatory decisions on the application of the import restrictions they allow. The proposed special … agricultural safeguard expands by arithmetic formula the bounds within which a Member may impose a new import restriction. Analysis …
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European Union have adopted such different policies toward genetically modified (GM) food. Their results show that when firms … general equilibrium model of GM adoption in America with and without an EU moratorium. This paper a product of the Trade Team …
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