Rising prices is a growing concern in developing countries especially in the context of food security. The welfare impact of such a price rise has important policy and regulatory implications. In this paper, we have analysed the welfare effect of a price rise of staple food items among Indian...

Measuring food waste at the individual household level has been nearly impossible because comprehensive, current data on uneaten food do not exist. By using food acquisition data, this article employs a new approach to estimating household-level food waste via a stochastic production frontier...

Our study establishes a linkage between household level food sufficiency and food sharing behavior with the reduction of low-intensity micro level conflict using primary data from 1763 households of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. We first examine if food sufficient households are less...

Cash transfers successfully alleviate poverty in many developing countries. South Africa is a case in point, implementing one of the largest unconditional cash transfer programmes internationally, and with substantial benefits to household well-being along multiple dimensions. Yet, grants...

This paper uses a structural model of household food waste to discuss how the jointness of meal production, consumption, and time allocation decisions, are important in understanding potential drivers of household food waste. We discuss how empiricists can utilize the model for empirical...

The article summarizes the practice of creation and functioning of small business forms in agriculture of Ukraine, assesses their role and capabilities at the present stage and in the future, identifies priority, desirable directions for further development of society and mechanisms for their...

Fluctuations in income and population are imperative elements for changing the structure of food demand. In perspective of the significance of food demand examination for provinces of Pakistan, thisstudy investigatesthe demand elasticities and household consumption behaviour both at the...

Increasing agricultural production is essential to improving food availability and farm household incomes in developing economies. This study investigated the dynamic supply responses of major cereal crops to price and nonprice factors in Ethiopia using the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey...

Consumption smoothing and temporal price arbitrage are the two main economic motives for grain storage in semi-subsistence economies. Nonetheless, little has been documented on the determinants of households' grain storage behavior. Using a rich panel data from maize producing households in...

Undernourishment is still widespread in Tanzania, while obesity is becoming an issue of magnitude similar to undernutrition in the country. In this paper we examined the impact of an increase in maize prices on the nutritional status of Tanzania's adult population. We found that undernutrition...