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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...
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fund to promote the industrialization of agricultural products, in particular -- on farmgate prices and poverty in Guinea …
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This paper investigates the impact of rising wheat prices -- during the 2007/08 global food crisis -- on food security in Afghanistan. Exploiting the temporal stratification of a unique nationally-representative household survey, the analysis finds evidence of large declines in real per capita...
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consumption poverty. The analysis finds that poor households in Uganda tend to be net buyers of food staples, and therefore suffer … foods. The paper estimates that both the incidence and depth of poverty have increased -- at least in the short run -- as a … result of higher food prices in 2008, increasing by 2.6 and 2.2 percentage points, respectively. The increase in poverty is …
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This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the initial shock due to the pandemic under the assumption that products that are more labor intensive in production are more affected through workers' morbidity and containment...
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calorie intakes and are less vulnerable to falling into poverty. However, displaced beneficiaries remained significantly worse … off and more vulnerable to poverty than non-displaced households, suggesting that, although the Public Distribution System …
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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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Based on a randomized evaluation, the paper shows that a household-targeted Philippine cash transfer program significantly raised the local price of key foods relevant for child nutritional status. This shift in prices increased stunting among young nonbeneficiary children by 34 percent (11...
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In projecting global food demand to 2050, much attention has been given to rising demand due to the projected population increase from the current 7.4 billion to more than 9 billion. An increasingly important source of the increase in food demand is per capita demand growth induced by rising...
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to suppress cereal price increases may have adverse effects on poverty reduction in the long term by undermining …
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