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 prices affecting poor households the most. Although public food …

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 income per person. Since the proportion of income spending on food …

This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the … domestic food markets could magnify the initial shock. The analysis shows that, in the quarter following the outbreak of the … pandemic, the global export supply of food could decrease between 6 and 20 percent and global prices increase between 2 and 6 …

errors that underpin a survey estimate. This study leverages a recent randomized food consumption survey experiment in …, consequently, the measures of total household food consumption …

the consumption of Filipino households. It is found that negative rainfall shocks decrease consumption, in particular food … consumption. Rainfall below one standard deviation of its long-run average causes food consumption to decrease by about 4 percent …

finds some evidence that food consumption patterns and nutritional outcomes may be affected by livestock ownership in rural …

This paper assesses the impact of three methodologies of food data collection on the welfare distribution, and poverty …

the level of animal-source food intake, but they decrease the consumption share of fish. This suggests that increased …

Using a new database on Chinese food standards, this paper estimates the impact of volunta-ry and mandatory standards … on its agricultural and food exports. The dataset covers seven Chinese products from 1992 to 2008. The findings here …

impact of oil price on biofuel expansion, and subsequently, on food supply. The study shows that a 65 percent increase in oil … price would reduce global food supply through direct impacts as well as through diversion of food commodities and cropland …