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China’s agricultural and trade policies have been shifting despite little change in policy objectives. This paper …
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models or disaggregated analysis of data from multiple sites. The consequence is that the scope and relevance of policy … analytical toolkit of agricultural economists should be improved in order to generate targeted policy interventions for different … socio-economic environments. The desire for this is urgent, considering the need to enhance food supply and ensure better …
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groups based on similarities and differences across the various measures of food production, trade security and agricultural …The recent surge in food prices around the world may reverse the gains of reducing hunger and poverty in the recent … countries categorized according to four measures of food security: utilization, availability, accessibility and stability. Nine …
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There is no consensus about how globalization –trade and foreign investments – affects poverty reduction. Using … household-level implications of increased foreign investments and trade in the horticulture sector in Senegal. In many aspects …
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The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) has continued to be fiercely debated … regression model, based on the general specification for the gravity model for international trade, is estimated using panel data …
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policy and the paradox of simultaneous commercial exports and large-scale food aid imports of sorghum. … transactions between Darfur and the Rest of Sudan. Food aid has helped to offset not only the absence of commercial inflows of … utilizing a simple partial equilibrium framework for wheat and sorghum, the country’s two main food staples. We also present …
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of how physical quantities of food consumed respond to price and income variations. A problem arises, however, because … aggregate data from the National Accounts and Food Balance Sheets over the 1975-2006 period, and the results are used to assess … the potential effectiveness of several incentive-based nutritional policy instruments. …
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inadequacy or excess occurs at the tails of nutrient and food intakes, and it seems intuitive that intake responses in these … is derived from the China Health and Nutrition Survey. The following insights emerge: (i) Fat density increases with …
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Previous studies commonly assume that the effects of introducing and ending cereal price subsidies on the poor’s nutrient intakes are symmetric. We question the assumption of symmetry and show that the poor’s nutrient intakes respond asymmetrically to declines and increases in the price of...
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multinomial logit analysis suggest that on average consumer acceptance for plant-based GM food was higher in 2005. This study … on scientists who are generally seen as independent of the industry. Consumers that usually consume and buy enhanced food …
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