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Food Policy in a Warming World
Hsiao, Allan; Moscona, Jacob; Sastry, Karthik - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Do governments systematically intervene in agricultural markets in response to climate shocks? If so, what are the aggregate and distributional consequences? We construct a global dataset of agricultural policies and extreme heat exposure by country and crop since 1980. We find that extreme heat...
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Improving Wastewater Use in Agriculture : An Emerging Priority
Scheierling, Susanne M. - 2017
Wastewater use in agriculture is a growing practice worldwide. Drivers include increasing water stress, in part due to … climate change; increasing urbanization and growing wastewater flows; and more urban households engaged in agricultural … involves the direct use of untreated wastewater or the indirect use of polluted waters from rivers that receive untreated urban …
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Improving Wastewater Use in Agriculture : An Emerging Priority
Scheierling, Susanne M.; Bartone, Carl; Mara, Duncan D. - 2012
Wastewater use in agriculture is a growing practice worldwide. Drivers include increasing water stress, in part due to … climate change; increasing urbanization and growing wastewater flows; and more urban households engaged in agricultural … involves the direct use of untreated wastewater or the indirect use of polluted waters from rivers that receive untreated urban …
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India's political economy responses to the global food price shock of 2007 - 08 : learning some lessons
Gulati, Ashok; Saini, Shweta - 2015
India's policy responses to the food price crisis were strong. Exports of basic staples were banned. Domestic support prices of wheat and rice were raised substantially. The urea price increases in global markets were absorbed through enhanced fertilizer subsidies. The government launched the...
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Conceptualizing drivers of policy change in agriculture, nutrition, and food security : the kaleidoscope model
Resnick, Danielle; Babu, Suresh Chandra; Haggblade, Steven - 2015
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The role of impact evaluation of agricultural development projects
Bonan, Jacopo; Pareglio, Stefano; Rotondi, Valentina - In: Rivista internazionale di scienze sociali 123 (2015) 4, pp. 369-380
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Enhancing food security in South Sudan : the role of public food stocks and cereal imports
Dorosh, Paul; Rashid, Shahidur; Childs, Abigail; Van … - 2015
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Cuba : agricultural transition and food security in a global perspective
Riera, Olivia; Swinnen, Johan F. M. - 2015
This paper reviews the situation in the agricultural sector and food security in Cuba and in particular the transformations that have (not) taken place since 1990. We compare the Cuban transition with transitions in other "transition countries" and show that Cuba does not fit easily in one of...
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Food security in South Africa : status quo and policy imperatives
Hendrks, Sheryl - In: Agrekon : agricultural economics research, policy and … 53 (2014) 2, pp. 1-24
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Evolution and critique of buffer stocking policy of India
Saini, Shweta; Kozicka, Marta - 2014
India's economic standing and its policy landscape have come a long way since the 1943 Bengal famine. History saw buffer stocking of food grains as a famine-combating tool. Today, apart from serving as an effective hedge in times of famines, such grain stocks are a conduit deployed by the...
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