producing jatropha feedstock for biodiesel. Under all scenarios, biofuels investments accelerate GDP growth and reduce poverty … are drawn away from food production. A skills-shortage amongst female workers also limits poverty reduction. Policy …

that biofuels investment enhances growth and poverty reduction despite some displacement of food crops by biofuels. Overall … reduces the incidence of poverty by about six percentage points over a 12-year phase-in period. Benefits depend on production …

, but also on the risks it faces. Hence vulnerability is a more satisfactory measure of (inadequate) welfare than poverty …. We measure vulnerability as expected poverty and establish the importance of its determinants, for Timor Leste' based on … inadequacy are more severe than overall poverty and vulnerability to poverty. Poverty and vulnerability in Timor-Leste' is …

inflation, growth and poverty / Shikha Jha and P.V. Srinivasan -- 5. Transmission of global food prices, supply response and ….] -- 9. Dietary change, nutrient transition and food security in fast growing China / Jing You -- 10. Poverty-nutrition traps … / Alexander Sarris -- 14. Enhancing food security : agricultural productivity, international trade and poverty reduction / Peter …

needed. -- biofuels ; economic development ; food security ; poverty ; Africa …