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The nutrition sensitivity of food and agriculture in South Asia
Dizon, Felipe; Josephson, Anna; Raju, Dhushyanth - 2019
Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008111
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Climate change impacts and mitigation in the developing world : an integrated assessment of the agriculture and forestry sectors ; shock waves: managing the impacts of climate chan...
Havlík, Petr; Valin, Hugo; Gusti, Mykola; Schmid, Erwin; … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379168
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Playing to strength : growth strategy for small agrarian economies in Africa
Yusuf, Shahid; Kumar, Praveen - 2018
, and Uganda as case studies to explore the potential for growth in agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism in these … intensive manufactures could contribute a fraction of aggregate growth, it is agriculture, agribusiness, and services that will … contribute the lion's share because of an unprecedented convergence of technologies. Industrialized agriculture and agri …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011903120
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Famine and the aid response : evidence from the announcement of famine-like conditions in the Republic of Yemen
Tandon, Sharad; Vishwanath, Tara - 2019
Using a high-frequency mobile phone survey of food security conducted by the World Food Programme, this paper investigates how food assistance and access to food changed following the announcement of famine-like conditions in the Republic of Yemen. Among the mobile phone-using population, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008382
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Evolution of poor food access over the course of the conflict in the Republic of Yemen
Tandon, Sharad; Vishwanath, Tara - 2019
The Republic of Yemen has undergone a profound transformation following the escalation of conflict in March 2015. There has been an increase in violence, a disruption in supply chains due to a tightening of the ports, and a decline in the general economic climate that has left a large share of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008383
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Optimal food price stabilization in a small open developing country
Gouel, Christophe; Jean, Sébastien - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009500328
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Synergies in child nutrition : interactions of food security, health and environment, and child care
Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011561471
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Poverty impact of food price shocks and policies
Laborde Debucquet, David; Lakatos, Csilla; Martin, Will - 2019
In the event of large swings in world food prices, countries often intervene to dampen the impact of international food price spikes on domestic prices and to lessen the burden of adjustment on vulnerable population groups. While individual countries can succeed at insulating their domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004809
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Food prices, access to markets and child undernutrition in Ethiopia
Brenton, Paul; Nyawo, Mike - 2019
This paper looks at how changing food prices affect child undernutrition in Ethiopia. It derives height for age (stunting) and weight for height (wasting) as indicators of child undernutrition from the two most recent years of the Livings Standards Measurement Survey and utilizes market prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022286
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How EC 1992 and reforms of the common agricultural policy would affect developing countries' grain trade
Ingco, Merlinda D.; Mitchell, Donald - 1992
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000865350