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, disorderly behaviors and "financialization" are damaging, speculation caused by demand and supply in physical markets can serve … over-extended individual measures to address the root causes or over-regulation of markets to address volatility and spikes …
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'historical basis'. This paper uses four sets of pooled equations for predicting stable levels of per capita consumption of rice …
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) to guide economic policy, but use of these data to improve food markets and nutrition has been limited. This study …
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protection and development of the community, whether this means buying from farmer’s markets or eating at locally owned …
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The Sahel and West Africa region is facing a serious food and nutrition security crisis with high rates of acute malnutrition, combined with high rates of malnourishment and over-nourishment – the "triple burden of malnutrition". Poor-quality diets are the root of all forms of malnutrition, as...
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, Philippines and Tanzania is summarized. The supply of nutritious foods is appraised from the viewpoint of improving diet quality …
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imply that prices have fallen in real terms in all state or regional markets throughout the country, in four different zones …: east, west, north and south. The paper makes an attempt to understand functioning of food markets in four different zones … (rice and wheat), vegetables (potato, onion and chickpeas), and sugar. To understand zone wise price behaviour, one major …
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The major food projection agencies see per capita food supplies continuing to increase and real prices of foodstuffs continuing to decline. This trend in food prices has made, and will continue to make, achievement of food security possible for a greater proportion of the world's population....
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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...
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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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