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Determinants of Food Security in Rural Areas of Pakistan

Khan, Rana Ejaz Ali; Gill, Abid Rashid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Abstract: Out of 120 districts of Pakistan (for rural areas) only 40 are food secure while 80 (67 percent) are food insecure. Within these food insecure districts, 38 (46 percent) are extremely food insecure. The matter of food security in rural areas is of immense nature and needs to be probed....

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Explaining Success in Reducing Under-Nourishment Numbers in Ghana

Aggrey-Fynn, Emmanuel; Banini, Godsway; Croppenstedt, Andre - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2003

attributed to the improved economic environment and market access for farmers. Improved varieties did help raise yields for maize … farmers benefited from the complete turnaround in the macroeconomic environment and performance. Fundamentally this turnaround … poverty remains particularly high for food farmers who, as a group, saw only a marginal improvement in welfare in the 1990s …

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Bread of the Future : Climate Change, Agriculture and Food in Latin America (El Pan Del Futuro: Cambio Climático, Agricultura Y Alimentación En América Latina)

Maletta, Hector E. - 2014

probable implications for Andean peasants and other subsistence farmers in the region, as well as conceptual and methodological …

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Reclaiming the Right to Food as a Normative Response to the Global Food Crisis

Narula, Smita - 2015

The number of hungry in the world has crossed the one billion mark, a dubious milestone that has been attributed in large part to consecutive food and economic crises. Over ninety-eight percent of these individuals live in the developing world. Ironically, a great majority are involved in food...

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Food, Economics, and Health

Bhargava, Alok - 2015

Drawing on the author's extensive and varied research, this book provides readers with a firm grounding in the concepts and issues across several disciplines including economics, nutrition, psychology and public health in the hope of improving the design of food policies in the developed and...

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The Impacts of Rapid Population Growth on Poverty, Food Production, and the Environment

Kelley, Allen C. - 1999

This survey paper updates what is known about the linkages between demographic change (changes in age distributions, the size and the growth rate of population, and migration) and the capacity of countries to provide food, to reduce poverty, and to maintain their environment. This assessment...

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Agriculture Development and Food Security Policy in Eritrea - An Analysis

Rena, Ravinder - 2015

The main economic activity of the people of Eritrea is agriculture: crop production and livestock herding. Agriculture mainly comprises mixed farming and some commercial concessions. Most agriculture is rain-fed. The main rain-fed crops are sorghum, millet and sesame, and the main irrigated...

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Sustainable Food and the Constitution

Hernandez Lopez, Ernesto - 2018

Sustainable food policies strive for environmental, healthy, economically just, and humane food production. Their success has ignited legal debates about the Constitution. This is not new. Iconic constitutional law cases examine sustainable food, such as meat in the Slaughter-House Cases (1873),...

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Food and Feed Prospects to 2020 in the West Asia/North Africa Region

Nordblom, Thomas L.; Shomo, Farouk - 2016

The West Asia/North Africa (WANA) region contains large areas with rainy winters and hot, dry summers. The social-ecology of the region must be respected as well as the physical ecology. Dryland farming, irrigated farming and rangelands in WANA are often linked through the diets of grazing...

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Trends in World Agricultural and Food Trade

Maletta, Hector E. - 2020

International commerce in agricultural and food products is an important component of food security and, for many developing countries, an essential part of their economic development. Agricultural products (which may be food or non-food) are imported or exported by most countries. Certain views...

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