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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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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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Stochastic food prices and slash-and -burn agriculture
Barrett, Christopher B. - In: Environment and development economics 4 (1999) 2, pp. 161-176
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Heteroskedastic Price Forecasting for Food Security Management in Developing Countries
Barrett, Christopher B. - 2011
Price forecasting systems are of considerable importance to food security management by governments' and non-governmental organizations. Sparse data availability in low-income economies, however, generally necessitates reliance on reduced form forecasting methods. Relatively recent innovations...
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Food security and sociopolitical stability
Barrett, Christopher B. (ed.) - 2013 - 1. ed.
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Global oil prices and local food prices : evidence from east Africa
Dillon, Brian; Barrett, Christopher B. - In: American journal of agricultural economics 98 (2016) 1, pp. 154-171
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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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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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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 …
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