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Energy Security, Food Security, and Economics of Sugarcane Bioethanol in India
Gunatilake, Herath; Abeygunawardena, Piya - 2011
, which brings destabilizing price effects on the economy and causes serious environmental problems like climate change. India … economic feasibility of sugarcane bioethanol in India while considering food security as a competing policy priority. The … analyses show that 20% blending of bioethanol cannot be achieved without affecting food production in India at the current …
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Demand-Supply Trends and Projections of Food in India
Mittal, Surabhi - 2008
The present paper presents the supply and demand trends of rice, wheat, total cereals, pulses, edible oil/oilseeds and sugar/sugarcane. It provides the demand and supply projections for food items during 2011, 2021 and 2026. These projections have been based on change in productivity levels,...
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Twenty K.R. Narayanan orations: Essays by eminent persons on the rapidly transforming Indian economy
Jha, Raghbendra (contributor) - 2021
needed a public forum with a global reach to involve the best minds working on economic development in India as well as to … honour its founder, Dr K.R. Narayanan, President of the Republic of India. The K.R. Narayanan Oration series was developed in … both an expert account of key aspects of the economic development process in India and a peek into India's potential in the …
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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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The public distribution systems of foodgrains and implications for food security: A comparison of the experiences of India and China
Zhou, Zhang-Yue; Wan, Guanghua - 2006
A comparative study of the public distribution systems of foodgrains in India and China is expected to reveal lessons …
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Philippines: Food Security versus Agricultural Exports?
Tiongco, Marites M.; Francisco, Kris A. - 2011
This paper tries to characterize the current situation in the Philippines with respect to the goal of the Aquino administration to be food secure and self-sufficient in rice by 2016. Specifically, it aims to address the question: "Should the government continue its efforts in increasing rice...
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South African food security and climate change: Agriculture futures
Dube, Sikhalazo; Scholes, Robert J.; Nelson, Gerald C.; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-35, pp. 1-54
The projected changes in planted area, yield per area, net exports/imports and prices for five major agricultural crops in South Africa were simulated using the projections of four Global Circulation Models (GCMs) under three socio-economic scenarios. The GCM projections show consistent strong...
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Revisiting the global food architecture: Lessons from the 2008 food crisis
Christiaensen, Luc - 2009
The 2008 episode of food price explosion, political turmoil, and human suffering revealed important flaws in the current global food architecture. This paper argues that to safeguard the strengths of the current system, four failures in market functioning and policymaking must be addressed....
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Background Paper: Research and Development and Extension Services in Agriculture and Food Security
Wesley, Annie; Faminow, Merle - 2014
Investments in agricultural research and extension have consistently demonstrated high rates of return in Asia and the Pacific. However, the recent global food crisis exposed the vulnerability of food supply systems and reversed many past achievements in the fight against hunger and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432713
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Regional wheat price effects of extreme weather events and wheat export controls in Russia and Ukraine
Götz, Linde; Djuric, Ivan; Nivievskyi, Oleg - 2016
This paper further builds on the price transmission model framework of existing studies to identify domestic wheat price effects of wheat export controls. We explicitly take the fact into account that a harvest failure causes domestic price effects as well. Moreover, the analysis at the regional...
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