This paper deals with the role of regional trade in fostering the resilience of domestic food markets. Using country … the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and … pace of regional trade expansion and thus its contribution to creating more resilient domestic food markets through modest …

What is an APEC Food System? Leaders of APEC's 21 member governments are committed to achieving free and open trade and … progress has already been made towards those goals, but least so in the food sector. The latter needs to be addressed urgently … September 1998 that APEC leaders take joint action to develop a so-called APEC Food System to boost the food sector …

We examine the implications of the rise of a middle class in East and Southern Africa for food consumption patterns and … the food system. A unique classification of food items shows that highly processed food has one-third of the purchased … food market, with comparable shares in rural and urban areas (31 per cent vs 35 per cent), and among the vulnerable and …

This paper finds that the food problem can lead to large gains from lowering trade costs for poor countries. To … quartile. Second, for poor countries with the food problem, reducing trade costs on agricultural goods is particularly …

of policies aimed at price stabilisation and food security, with a view to identifying alternatives to meet the same … policy objectives. The paper then examines the most direct alternative to public food stocks for price stabilisation, namely … argued to be necessary for food security, the paper also explores alternative approaches that governments may take to meeting …

One third of the entire food produced for our consumption is either lost or wasted at some point of the food supply … chain. The problem of food waste does not only intensify the elementary problem of food insecurity in wasting precious … nourishment - originally intended to be consumed - connected with its economic value, but the processing and disposal of food also …

Our body compulsory demands food, water and air to keep its vital functions and yet their economic nature is rather … diverse with food mostly considered a private good, water suffering an accelerated privatization process and air so far … considered a global common good. Food has evolved from a common good and local resource to a national asset and then to a …

Almost everywhere in the world, despite the lower agricultural commodity prices, consumer food prices have been … increasing in recent years. Notwithstanding a global recession and the largest grain harvest on record in 2008, food prices have … will rise by 70% and demand for meat will double. In the first ten months of 2009, food prices increased by 9.8%, prompting …

Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. These do not necessarily conflict, but appropriate balance must be ensured …

This paper examines the relationship between food retail density and municipal solid waste. We test for correlations … between the volume of solid waste and the number of food-at-home retailers (e.g., grocery stores) and food …-away-from-home retailers (e.g., restaurants) at the county level in the state of Mississippi over 2007-2012. Since food scraps comprise the …