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Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia, a region characterized by a high level of malnutrition. The review finds that the level and stability of food prices play a critical part in food consumption, with rising...
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This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the … percent on average. Escalating export restrictions would multiply the initial shock by a factor of 3, with world food prices …
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percent). Since the impact of convergence on the supply side is much more muted, convergence puts upward pressure on world … food prices, partially offsetting a baseline trend toward falling world food prices to 2050 …
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a world with high inequalities than in a more equal world. In the long run, impacts could be much stronger, with global …
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evaluating economically optimal allocations of the world's land resources. A dynamic, forward-looking optimization framework …
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an indicator of self-assessed food security from the Gallup World Poll. For the sampled countries as a whole, this …
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For individual countries, variable trade barriers can be used to reduce the volatility of domestic relative to world … prices. If this is done by countries accounting for a large share of the market, its effect is offset by increases in world … classifying themselves at the World Trade Organization as developing account for only 3 percent of world rice consumption. But it …
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Everyone knows about seasonality. But what exactly do we know? This study systematically measures seasonal price gaps at 193 markets for 13 food commodities in seven African countries. It shows that the commonly used dummy variable or moving average deviation methods to estimate the seasonal gap...
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Might a malaria control intervention entail agricultural effects that allow a commercial agribusiness to offset its costs? The randomized allocation of 39,936 insecticide-treated mosquito nets among 81,597 smallholder cotton farming households in 1,507 clusters helps evaluate this in the context...
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This paper investigates the link between export survival of agri-food products and financial development. It tests the hypothesis that financial development differentially affects the survival of exports across products based on their need of external finance. The authors test whether exports of...
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