Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 97
Cover Image
AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT AND FOOD SECURITY POLICY IN ERITREA - AN ANALYSIS
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The main economic activity of the people of Eritrea is agriculture: crop production and livestock herding. Agriculture mainly comprises mixed farming and some commercial concessions. Most agriculture is rain-fed. The main rain-fed crops are sorghum, millet and sesame, and the main irrigated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005786953
Cover Image
On the composite indicators for food security: Decisions matter!
Santeramo, Fabio Gaetano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
During the past decades, there has been much debate on food security. A variety of indicators have been proposed in order to establish which countriesare in need of improved food security status. The heterogeneity of existing indicators and the lack of consensus on how to compare and rank...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110975
Cover Image
Food security in South Asia: strategies and programmes for regional collaboration
Iqbal, Muhammad; Amjad, Rashid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The study examines movements over time in key factors influencing food security in South Asia. Country level and regional level food security indices (FSI) were constructed to track progress in achieving food security keeping in view its availability, stability, access, and nutritional status...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112835
Cover Image
Capacity Building In Information And Communication Management (ICM) Towards Food Security
Temu, Andrew; Msuya, Elibariki Emmanuel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
This paper addresses capacity strengthening needs in the area of ICM to support food security initiatives. It fully acknowledges that FS is a state of assuring physical availability and economic accessibility to enough food in terms of quantity (amount, distribution, calories), quality (safe,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619562
Cover Image
Addressing food self-sufficiency in Tanzania: a balancing act of policy coordination
Msuya, E. E; Isinika, A. C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper examines the performance of food production and productivity in Tanzania since 2000, in relation to post …-SAP policies. This discussion assumes that individual households in Tanzania strive to achieve food security through own production … performance of food production and marketing, at the micro and macro levels, during the post-SAP period in Tanzania, as influenced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009018268
Cover Image
The Impacts of Wheat Price Policy change on Nutritional Status in Egypt.
Soliman, Ibrahim; Shapouri, Shahla - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1983
We compared energy and protein consumption among various Income classes in rural and urban areas of Egypt, The results indicate that adequate calories are provided at all income levels but inequalities exist in food distribution between rural and urban areas and among income classes. About...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009223364
Cover Image
Who Does Bear the Costs of Compliance with Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures in Poor Countries?
Shafaeddin, Mehdi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Abstract This article is a part of a twin study. Drawing on the available evidence, in this paper the author examines the cost of compliance with Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures for poor countries with reference to Africa. He shows that the burden of cost of compliance is entirely on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836764
Cover Image
Measuring Agricultural Policy Bias: General Equilibrium Analysis of Fifteen Developing Countries
Jensen, Henning Tarp; Sherman, Robinson; Tarp, Finn - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The measurement issue is the key issue in the literature on trade policy-induced agricultural price incentive bias. This paper introduces a general equilibrium effective rate of protection (GE-ERP) measure, which extends and generalizes earlier partial equilibrium nominal protection measures....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145373
Cover Image
Do subsidies matter in food price stabilization? Evidences from Ethiopia in a computable general equilibrium framework
Woldie, Getachew Abebe; Siddig, Khalid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In the poorest countries like Ethiopia the spillover effects of a soaring food price is unbearable. To mitigate the recent rise in food prices and the burden on urban poor consumers, policy makers have considered various measures. A recent shift from subsidizing oil to grain to ease the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855254
Cover Image
Africa’s Burden: Labour Markets, Natural Resources and the FDI ‘Reliance-Rejection’ Paradox
de Mauro, Andrea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper will attempt to provide a comprehensive answer to the complex issue of development in sub-Saharan Africa by identifying an FDI reliance-rejection paradox emanating from the incompatibility between colonial legacies and Structural Adjustment Programmes. Since the 1980s, international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259898