This paper examines the impacts of the financial, food and fuel crises on the livelihoods of low-income households … substitution for lower quality food, increasing the intensity of work, withdrawing children from school – especially girls – and …

for future CO re-search in the food sector. …

In this study, the focus is on analyzing food demand behaviors in Malaysia. To be more specific, this study intends to … estimate demand elasticities for twelve food categories with incorporation of food quality effects in the demand analyses. This … food categories, especially meat, fish, vegetables, oils and fats, and fruits. The own-price elasticities for rice, eggs …

This study is an attempt to analyze the impact of Edible Oil Deficit on Food Expenditure in Pakistan for the period … has been used to analyse the long run relationship amongst the variables. Other important determinants of food expenditure … negative relationship exists between edible oil deficit and food expenditure and hence the result derives the policy …

The objective of this study is to provide an insight into demand patterns of the Malay consumers for specific food … Ideal Demand System (LA/AIDS) model for 12 aggregated food products is estimated using a two-step estimation procedure. A … elasticities. This study shows that Malay consumers appear to have different food consumption patterns as compared to the general …

Demand analyses of food are deemed important to provide up-to-date indications of the demand behavior in future. This …-economic factors on of food demand in Malaysia. Household Expenditure Survey 2004/2005 data is analyzed by using Working Leser, Linear …

creating Market Information Services for food and agriculture usually fail. The author distills experiences and lessons from …

This paper deals with the question of the trade-offs between bio-fuels, fossil-fuels, and food. To do so an analysis is … results shows that in general food puts a greater stress over the economies than energy does, and mainly in the developing … where it is possible to have an expansion of bio-fuel production without compromising the production of food and without …

, participants report a reduction in both seasonal consumption gaps and food shortage, health improvements when credit is disbursed …Food programs are large and expensive components of social safety nets in developing countries. For agricultural … households, hunger is more acute in annual lean seasons, but food policies typically do not adapt to seasonality. There is …