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Rising Food Prices in Sub-Saharan Africa : Poverty Impact and Policy Responses

Wodon, Quentin; Zaman, Hassan - 2012

the potential impact of higher food prices on poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, and examines the extent to which policy … responses will benefit the poor. The paper shows that rising food prices are likely to lead to higher poverty in sub … that anti-poverty interventions ought to retain their focus on rural areas where poverty remains highest even after taking …

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Food Security and Wheat Prices in Afghanistan : A Distribution-sensitive Analysis of Household-level Impacts

D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - 2012

This paper investigates the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. It uses a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression estimator, based on influence functions, to...

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Food Security and Storage in the Middle East and North Africa

Larson, Donald F.; Lampietti, Julian; Gouel, Christophe - 2012

In times of highly volatile commodity markets, governments often try to protect their populations from rapidly-rising food prices, which can be particularly harsh for the poor. A potential solution for food-deficit countries is to hold strategic reserves, which can be called on when...

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Can China Continue Feeding Itself? The Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture

Wang, Jinxia; Mendelsohn, Robert; Dinar, Ariel - 2012

Several studies addressing the supply and demand for food in China suggest that the nation can largely meet its needs in the coming decades. However, these studies do not consider the effects of climate change. This paper examines whether near future expected changes in climate are likely to...

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Improving Child Nutrition Outcomes in India : Can the Integrated Child Development Services Program Be More Effective?

Das Gupta, Monica; Lokshin, Michael; Gragnolati, Michele - 2012

Levels of child malnutrition in India fell only slowly during the 1990s, despite significant economic growth and large public spending on the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) program, of which the major component is supplementary feeding for malnourished children. To unravel this...

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Long-term Impacts of Global Food Crisis on Production Decisions : Evidence from Farm Investments in Indonesia

Nose, Manabu; Yamauchi, Futoshi - 2012

Did the rise in food prices have a long-term impact on agricultural production? Using household-level panel data from seven provinces of Indonesia, this paper finds that the price shock created a forward-looking incentive to invest, which can dynamically enhance productivity in agriculture. It...

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Blue Water and the Consequences of Alternative Food Security Policies in the Middle East and North Africa for Water Security

Larson, Donald F. - 2013

In the Middle East and North Africa, food security and water security are tightly entwined. In particular, choices about the extent to which food security policies rely on trade rather than domestically produced staples have stark consequences for the region's limited water resources. This paper...

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Shorter, Cheaper, Quicker, Better : Linking Measures of Household Food Security to Nutritional Outcomes in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Uganda, and Tanzania

Tiwari, Sailesh; Skoufias, Emmanuel; Sherpa, Maya - 2013

Using nationally representative household survey data from five countries -- three from South Asia (Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Nepal) and two from Sub-Saharan Africa (Tanzania and Uganda) -- this paper conducts a systematic assessment of the correlation between various measures of household food...

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The Challenge of Measuring Hunger

De Weerdt, Joachim; Beegle, Kathleen; Friedman, Jed - 2014

There is widespread interest in the number of hungry people in the world and trends in hunger. Current global counts rely on combining each country's total food balance with information on distribution patterns from household consumption expenditure surveys. Recent research has advocated for...

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Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security in Tanzania

Arndt, Channing; Farmer, William; Strzepek, Kenneth - 2013

The consequences of climate change for agriculture and food security in developing countries are of serious concern. Due to their reliance on rain-fed agriculture, both as a source of income and consumption, many low-income countries are considered to be the most vulnerable to climate change....

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