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Food prices and population health in developing countries : an investigation of the effects of the food crisis using a panel analysis
Lee, Suejin; Lim, Jae-young; I, Hyeon hun; Park, Cyn-Young - 2013
High food prices can be an immediate threat to household food security, undermining population health, retarding human development, and lowering labor productivity for the economy in the long term. We employ a panel dataset covering 63 developing countries from 2001 to 2010 to make a...
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Food aid and violent conflict : a review of literature
Koppenberg, Maximilian; Mishra, Ashok K.; Hirsch, Stefan - 2023
We decompose the relationship between food aid and conflict into the channels through which food aid can affect conflict. We address questions of methodological choice and estimation techniques for empirical studies. Our review of the empirical evidence on the effect of food aid on conflict...
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Thoughts on how trade, and WTO rules, can contribute to the post-2015 development agenda
Roberts, Michael - 2014 - Manuscript date: 13 June 2014
date. Indeed, sustainable development is recognized as an objective in the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade …
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Foreign Direct Investment in Agriculture : Land Grab or Food Security Improvement?
Häberli, Christian - 2016
Is there something really new about "land grab" except its extent? What is wrong with an investment contract allowing the holder to buy a farm and to export wheat to Saudi Arabia, or soybeans and maize as cattle feed to Korea, or to plant and process sugar cane and palm oil into ethanol for...
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Food Prices and Population Health in Developing Countries : An Investigation of the Effects of the Food Crisis Using a Panel Analysis
Lee, Suejin - 2015
High food prices can be an immediate threat to household food security, undermining population health, retarding human development, and lowering labor productivity for the economy in the long term. We employ a panel dataset covering 63 developing countries from 2001 to 2010 to make a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035086
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Redirecting investment for a global food system that is sustainable and promotes healthy diets
Bianchi, Eduardo; Bowyer, Catherine; Morrison, J. A.; … - 2018
More and better quality private sector investment in food systems will be needed if countries are to achieve their Sustainable Development Goals. The key challenge addressed in this paper is how investment in food systems can be redirected such that it is both adequate to drive dynamic food...
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Food Policy Coherence and Integration : a review of adopted methodologies
Monticone, Francesca; Samoggia, Antonella - In: Italian review of agricultural economics 78 (2023) 3, pp. 35-49
Multiple scholars in the last two decades have called for a coherent and integrated approach to food policy to address the challenges of the current food systems. Food Policy Coherence and Integration (PCI) are both challenging, as food matters are addressed at more than one level of governance...
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Sit Down at the Ballgame : How Trade Barriers Make the World Less Food Secure
Rutten, Martine M.; Shutes, Lindsay J.; Meijerink, … - 2016
This paper analyses the impacts of trade policy responses to rising world food prices by carrying out a series of … stylised experiments in the wheat market using a world trade model, GTAP. The sequence of events that is modelled comprises a … for food security purposes. Large exporting countries export price instability causing world food prices to rise further …
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Institutionalizing Inequality : The WTO Agreement on Agriculture, Food Security, and Developing Countries
Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2009
The article examines the food security implications of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture. It places the Agreement in historical context, examines its key provisions, and argues that the Agreement systematically favors industrialized country agricultural producers at the expense of farmers in...
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Trade Liberalization, Food Security and the Environment : The Neoliberal Threat to Sustainable Rural Development
Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2011
developing world. It chronicles the patterns of trade and production that contribute to this problem from the colonial period … International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) exacerbate hunger and environmental … earnings needed to finance the import of food and other necessities to fluctuating world market prices for agricultural …
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