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Global food price volatility and spikes: An overview of costs, causes, and solutions
von Braun, Joachim; Tadesse, Getaw - 2012
Since the 2007-08 food crisis, many thoughtful analyses have addressed the causes and impacts of high and volatile international food prices and proposed solutions to the crisis. These studies have covered global as well as local food price dynamics and policy reactions. The food price problem...
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Towards More Sustainable Food Systems
Kusch-Brandt, Sigrid (contributor) - 2023
Food systems are under increasing pressure. They must meet the food requirements of a growing world population, and socio-economic changes also influence the type of foods which are under demand. At the same time, food systems are a major contributor to global environmental change, and...
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Poverty and Food Security in India
2013
This paper is an attempt to analyze the impact of two of India's largest food security interventions - the Public Distribution System (PDS) and the Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDM) - on poverty outcomes and on nutritional intake. This paper offers a simple methodology to take into account the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507403
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International Transmission of Food Prices and Volatilities: A Panel Analysis
Lee, Hyun-Hoon; Park, Cyn-Young - 2013
High and volatile food prices pose a significant policy challenge around the world, and an understanding of the dynamics of food price inflation and volatility is essential in designing appropriate policy responses. Using the panel data for 72 countries from 2000 to 2011, the paper assesses the...
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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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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...
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Food security in Kenya: Insights from a household food demand model
Korir, Lilian; Rizov, Marian; Ruto, Eric - In: Economic Modelling 92 (2020), pp. 99-108
This paper evaluates the household food security situation in Kenya in terms of access to food. We apply a quadratic … almost ideal demand system (QUAIDS) model to nationally representative household survey data from Kenya, and estimate and … security situation in Kenya, and the most severely affected households seem to be those that rely on informal markets and …
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The short-term economic effects of COVID-19 and risk-coping strategies of low-income households in Kenya: A rapid analysis using weekly financial household data
Janssens, Wendy; Pradhan, Menno; de Groot, Richard; … - 2020
This research assesses how low-income households in Western Kenya coped with the immediate economic consequences of the … was detected in Kenya to five weeks after. Our results suggest that income from work decreased with almost one third and …
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Limit Distribution of Convex-Hull Estimators of Boundaries
Jeong, Seok-Oh; Park, Byeong U. - 2004
Given n independent and identically distributed observations in a set G with an unknown function g, called a boundary or frontier, it is desired to estimate g from the observations. The problem has several important applications including classification and cluster analysis, and is closely...
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Challenging the miracle of transgenic crops in China: findings from a case study in cotton using panel data
Pemsl, Diemuth E.; Völker, Marc; Wu, L.; Waibel, Hermann - 2008
Bt cotton has been cultivated in China for the past 10 years. Limitations of previous studies analyzing the impact of this technology are the short time period considered and lack of panel data. In this paper, we present findings from monitoring 150 Bt cotton farmers in 2002 and 2005....
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