Similar Search Results

Long-run impacts of the conflict in Ukraine on food security in Africa

Balma, Lacina; Heidland, Tobias; Jävervall, Sebastian; … - 2022

Getreide aufgrund reduzierter Produktion, geringeren Exporten, und gestiegenen Handelskosten. Dieser Policy Brief untersucht …) Ein Ende der Exporte ukrainischen Weizens und anderer Getreide für die Lebensmittelproduktion, beispielsweise Mais und … Hirse, 2) Ein möglicher Stopp russischer Getreide- und Düngerexporte, und 3) Der Einfluss gestiegener Handelskosten aufgrund …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013174004

Women's status and children's food security in Nepal

Nyyssölä, Milla - 2007

This paper focuses on gender aspects upon children’s food security. Using data from the 1995/1996 Nepal Living …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284693

Measuring food security using respondents' perception of food consumption adequacy

Migotto, Mauro; Davis, Benjamin; Caretto, Gero; Beegle, … - 2006

: Albania, Indonesia, Madagascar and Nepal. Simple descriptive statistics, correlation coefficients, contingency tables and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284755

Wild fruit collection and its impact on household food security in the Luapula Province, Zambia

Seegers, Ronja - In: Transformationsprozesse in Stadt und Land: …, (pp. 164-183). 2024

In many sub-Saharan African countries, wild fruits offer great potential to serve as a nutritional complement and safety net in times of food shortages. However, their true contribution to food security is still insufficiently investigated. This study, therefore, examines the impact of wild...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014492569

US policy contributions to agricultural commodity price fluctuations, 2006 - 12

Rausser, Gordon C.; De Gorter, Harry - 2013

Since 2006, global prices and price volatility for foodgrain commodities have spiked frequently and dramatically. Such spikes have had the heaviest economic and social impact on developing nations, where agriculture accounts for a sizable portion of economic activity. We demonstrate how US...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319827

Dealing with the 2007/08 global food price crisis: The political economy of food price policy in Malawi

Chirwa, Ephraim; Chinsinga, Blessings - 2013

The paper examines the underlying political economy motivations of the government's policy responses to food price increases in 2007/08 focusing particularly on maize as the main staple crop. The main government policy responses to the food price spikes in 2007/08 were price control, bans on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319850

International co-operation for agricultural development and food and nutrition security: New institutional arrangements for related public goods

von Braun, Joachim - 2013

Following an overview on the fast changing global context of agriculture, and food and nutrition security, this paper provides a framework for identifying the set of essential international public goods for a well-functioning world agriculture and food system: natural resource management related...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319864

Helping poor farmers to help themselves: Evidence from a group-based aid project in Mozambique

Nyyssölä, Milla; Pirttilä, Jukka; Sandström, Susanna - 2012

This paper evaluates the impact of an integrated rural development programme on farming techniques and food security in the Gaza area of rural Mozambique. We examine the impact of a group-based approach, in a country with few impact evaluations of technology adoption in farming. Using...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319928

BRICS: World heavyweight in agricultural trade

Glauben, Thomas; Djuric, Ivan - In: Intereconomics 59 (2024) 3, pp. 160-166

BRICS, the 15-year-old alliance of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, has emerged as an important actor on the global political and economic stage, not least by expanding its membership to include middle-power states Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015047876

Agriculture and food security in Asia by 2030

Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - 2012

Rapid trade-led economic growth in emerging Asia has been shifting the global economic and industrial centres of gravity away from the north Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade but also altering the commodity composition of trade by Asia and other regions. What began with...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397264