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How Strong Do Global Commodity Prices Influence Domestic Food Prices? A Global Price Transmission Analysis
Kalkuhl, Matthias - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014
, a theoretical model is developed to explain price transmission for different trade regimes. Drawing from the competitive … storage model under rational expectations, it is shown that domestic prices can respond instantaneously to global prices even … if no trade takes place but future trade is expected. Using a global database on food prices, we construct national and …
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The power of WASH: Why sanitation matters for nutrition
Spears, Dean; Haddad, Lawrence James - In: 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report
Water, sanitation, and hygiene can have a profound effect on health and nutrition. A growing base of evidence on the link between sanitation, child height, and well-being has come at an opportune time, when the issue of sanitation and nutrition in developing countries has moved to the top of the...
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Food safety: Reducing and managing food scares
Grace, Delia; McDermott, John - In: 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report
A series of high-profile food-related scares around the globe has drawn attention to the issue of food safety and other health risks associated with agriculture. Because the scope of the problem is different at different levels of economic development, we need nuanced policy options to promote...
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Reaching the missing middle: Overcoming hunger and malnutrition in middle income countries
Fan, Shenggen; Cousin, Ertharin - In: 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report
Eliminating hunger and malnutrition around the globe cannot be achieved without a new approach to dealing with the problem in middle income countries. Here’s why this is so, how the middle income countries should respond, and what the international community can do to help.
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The business imperative: Helping small family farmers to move up or move out
Fan, Shenggen; Brzeska, Joanna; Olofinbiyi, Tolulope - In: 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report
How can family farmers best contribute to their country’s agriculture needs as well as broader development goals? First, we should determine which farmers can be profitable and assist them in doing so. Second, for those who aren’t profitable, we need to help them shift to other economic...
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Regional developments: Africa, Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean
Badiane, Ousmane; Collins, Julia; Makombe, Tsitsi; … - In: 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report
economic growth, poverty reduction, and food and nutrition security in Africa 2. Policy reforms in fuel subsidies, agriculture …, and food trade in the Middle East and North Africa 3. Economic challenges and opportunities for Central Asia’s food system … tempered by weather and other shocks …
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Conflict and food insecurity: How do we break the links?
Breisinger, Clemens; Ecker, Olivier; Trinh Tan, … - In: 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report
of people. Policies and interventions that build resilience to these shocks have the power to not only limit the breadth …
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Mitigating risk: Social protection and the rural poor
Kanbur, Ravi - In: 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report
, including those stemming from globalization, climate change, and weather shocks. These experiences highlight the importance of … social protection, which can have a potentially significant impact on reducing poverty and vulnerability when implemented …
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Food policy in 2014–2015: Strong advances and stubborn setbacks
Fan, Shenggen - In: 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report
The year 2014 saw mixed results for food and nutrition security: some countries made headway on policies to cut hunger, while in other countries conflict and health crises took a heavy human toll. Much of the year’s discourse focused on potential priorities for the future global development...
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The rise of aquaculture: The role of fish in global food security
Msangi, Siwa; Batka, Miroslav - In: 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report
Appetite for fish continues to expand around the globe, despite the stagnant levels of capture fish production. What is the role that aquaculture can play in supplying the world with adequate animal protein? What lessons can be drawn from dynamic Asian aquaculture producers that might guide...
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