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Policy barriers to a healthier diet: The case of trade and agriculture
Alta, Aditya; Auliya, Rachma; Fauzi, Azizah Nazzala - 2023
Improving nourishment and diets has become a priority for Indonesia. The stunting rate among under-five children in … Indonesia at 24% is considered high and deserving of serious attention.Improving dietary diversity among children is essential … Stunting Reduction in Indonesia 2021- 2024 (RAN-PASTI), and National Action Plan for Food and Nutrition 2020-2024 (RAN …
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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 …
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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...
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Enforcing the right to food in India: Bottlenecks in delivering the expected outcome
Cheriyan, George - 2006
Over the past decade, a series of events in India have brought the question of food security into sharp focus. Vast … Organization laws on agriculture and farmers, the media’s spotlight on starvation deaths and, finally, the Supreme Court of India … situation prevailing in India and reviews the obligations and initiatives by the government of India to ensure food security …
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Analysis of the land use sector in INDCs of relevant Non-Annex I parties
Hargita, Yvonne; Rüter, Sebastian - 2016
The international community has committed itself to adopt a global climate agreement in Paris in 2015, which shall enter into force in 2020 and shall be legally-binding for all. In advance of the negotiations, parties shall submit the so-called Intended Nationally Determined Contributions...
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Food Security in South Asia: Issues and Opportunities
Mittal, Surabhi; Sethi, Deepti - 2009
Food security is defined as economic access to food along with food production and food availability. Agriculture in the SAR (South Asian Region) is caught in a low equilibrium trap with low productivity of staples, supply shortfalls, high prices, low returns to farmers and area diversification...
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The middle-income trap: Issues for members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
2013
the late 1990s. The paper concludes that for ASEAN middle-income countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and … Thailand) to avoid the trap, they should strengthen research and development capability, emphasize the quality and …
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Global food price shock and the poor in Egypt and Ukraine
Aboulenein, Soheir; El Laithy, Heba; Helmy, Omneia; … - 2010
The global food price shock of 2006-2008 has particularly affected poorer strata of populations in several developing countries. In Egypt and some other countries it has put food subsidy schemes to the test. This paper develops two comparable computable general equilibrium models for Egypt and...
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Agricultural Development Bank Reform
Seibel, Hans Dieter - 2001
Indonesia (BRI) and Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC, Thailand) as well as ADB/Nepal, which has been …
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What can Cambodia learn from Thailand and India as it prepares to graduate from Least Developed Country status?
Tenni, Brigitte; Gleeson, Deborah; Lexchin, Joel; … - 2024
and regulations with those of Thailand and India - two developing countries that have had some successes in preserving … experiences of Thailand and India in implementing TRIPS and using TRIPS flexibilities such as compulsory licensing to ensure …Cambodia is expected to graduate from Least Developed Country status soon, at which time it will be required to make …
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