food availability is increasing or decreasing. Using data from China, we find that overall dietary knowledge has larger and …, and protein) when expected food availability increases than when it decreases. Without distinguishing the direction of … changes in expected food availability, most of the corresponding effects become smaller and statistically insignificant. Thus …

In the Philippines, where rice is considered the most important food crop, attempts to influence rice prices have been … prevalent. The government, through National Food Authority (NFA) has sought to establish stocks and control imports to stabilize …

changes in the output structure and an adjustment in the use of inputs. Policy interventions, including fiscal, trade and …

the response is not uniform across food items. In particular, households more hurt by the reform did not change their … consumption of cereals, but decreased their consumption of all other food items. Although this coping mechanism helped maintain …

results show very high premiums for Taiwan products. Taiwanese consumers and food producers stand to benefit greatly with COOL. …

been proposed to encourage domestic and regional consumption of Dominica's agricultural outputs and food products. As such …, ‘Organic Dominica' has the potential to simultaneously address ongoing national concerns surrounding food security, foreign … exchange availability, domestic un/underemployment, and environmental preservation. Before and since proposing this policy …

In this paper a method to examine how households make their food choice considering micronutrients through utility … theory is applied. The findings support the argument that nutrients play an important roles in the demand for food. The … method is illustrated using the raw data EIH 2000/2001 (Enquesta Integrata de Hogares) for a set of different food groups. …