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The system of global agricultural and food trade is undergoing rapid processes of change, with important implications … change in agri-food trade, the increased consolidation in food supply chains, the proliferation of public and private food … standards, high and volatile food prices, and increased vertical coordination in the chains. We investigate what the …
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research attention. We analyze the contribution of enset to household income, food security, and vulnerability to shocks. We … function method to limit endogeneity bias. We find that household income slightly improves with enset cultivation, but food … security does not. Yet, enset plants significantly reduce the negative impact of shocks on food security. Households with enset …
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There is no consensus about how globalization -trade and foreign investments ?affects poverty reduction. Using household survey data, this study contributes to the empirical literature on globalization and poverty by analyzing the household-level implications of increased foreign investments and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010313273
In this paper we address the question of firm-nonfirm linkages at the household level for a case-study in Senegal. We examine whether increasing off-firm employment opportunities for rural households ?resulting from increased horticulture exports and associated agro-industrialization ?has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010313288
During the past decades the global food system changed dramatically with increased trade in high-value food products …, increased exports from developing countries, increased consolidation and dominance of large multinational food companies, and … increased proliferation of public and private food standards. As a consequence, global food trade is increasingly organised …
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During the past decades the global food system changed dramatically with increased trade in high-value food products …, increased exports from developing countries, increased consolidation and dominance of large multinational food companies, and … increased proliferation of public and private food standards. As a consequence, global food trade is increasingly organised …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008566158
There is no consensus about how globalization -trade and foreign investments ?affects poverty reduction. Using household survey data, this study contributes to the empirical literature on globalization and poverty by analyzing the household-level implications of increased foreign investments and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005590814
In this paper we address the question of farm-nonfarm linkages at the household level for a case-study in Senegal. We examine whether increasing off-farm employment opportunities for rural households ?resulting from increased horticulture exports and associated agro-industrialization ?has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005163366
There is no consensus about how globalization - trade and foreign investments - affects poverty reduction. Using household survey data, this study contributes to the empirical literature on globalization and poverty by analyzing the household-level implications of increased foreign investments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012708416
In this paper we address the question of farm-nonfarm linkages at the household level for a case-study in Senegal. We examine whether increasing off-farm employment opportunities for rural households - resulting from increased horticulture exports and associated agro-industrialization - has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012718655