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Food systems and the escape from poverty and illhealth traps in sub-Saharan Africa
Barrett, Christopher B. (contributor) - 2008 - Rev.
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Measuring Food Insecurity
Barrett, Christopher B. - 2015
Food security is a growing concern worldwide. More than 1 billion people are estimated to lack sufficient dietary energy availability, and at least twice that number suffer micronutrient deficiencies. Because indicators inform action, much current research focuses on improving food insecurity...
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Measuring resilience in a risky world: Why, where, how, and who?:
Barrett, Christopher B.; Headey, Derek D. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
regions into states of permanent crisis, even as the rest of the world has enjoyed unprecedented progress against poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277423
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Measuring resilience in a volatile world: A proposal for a multicountry system of sentinel sites :
Barrett, Christopher B.; Headey, Derek D. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
We propose the development of a multicountry system of high-frequency, long-term sentinel sites in the world’s most vulnerable regions. If implemented along the lines we conceive, this system could be a high-return investment for resilience-building efforts, since it would serve multiple...
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Modeling the Impact of Natural Resource-Based Poverty Traps on Food Security in Kenya : The Crops, Livestock and Soils in Smallholder Economic Systems (CLASSES) Model
Stephens, Emma C.; Nicholson, Charles; Brown, Douglas R.; … - 2014
We investigate the interactions between natural resource-based poverty traps and food security for smallholder farms in … characterize persistent poverty and food insecurity among smallholders in rural highland Kenya. We examine the effects of changing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014182138
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Food Systems and the Escape from Poverty and Ill-Health Traps in Sub-Saharan Africa
Barrett, Christopher B. - 2014
Millennium Development Goal #1 is to halve extreme poverty ($1/day per person) and hunger. Progress toward this goal … health, malnutrition and ultra-poverty are mutually reinforcing states that add to the challenge of addressing any one of … of the ultra-poor. The causal mechanisms underpinning the poverty trap in which ultra-poor, unhealthy and undernourished …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014217608
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Caveat utilitor : a comparative assessment of resilience measurement approaches
Upton, Joanna; Constenla-Villoslada, Susana; Barrett, … - In: Journal of development economics 157 (2022), pp. 1-16
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Agricultural Technology, Productivity, Poverty and Food Security in Madagascar
Minten, Bart; Barrett, Christopher B. - 2015
poverty in Madagascar. We show that, controlling for geographical and physical characteristics, communes that have higher … improved agricultural production as an important part of any strategy to reduce the high poverty rates currently prevalent in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014065127
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U.S. Food Aid: It’s Not Your Parents’ Program Any More!
Barrett, Christopher B. - In: Journal of Agribusiness 24 (2006) 1
Much has changed in the 50 years since modern food aid began with the enactment of U.S. Public Law 480 in 1954. Yet contemporary policy debates often become derailed by failures to appreciate the significant changes that have already occurred. This paper identifies the most important of these...
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Chapter 40 Food security and food assistance programs
Barrett, Christopher B. - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 2, part B, …, (pp. 2103-2190). 2002
Widespread hunger and malnutrition persist today despite considerable growth in per capita food availability. This has prompted an evolving conceptualization of food security and of mechanisms to attain and maintain food security. This chapter discusses both food security and food assistance...
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