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: monitoring food security in a volatile world / Derek Headey, Olivier Ecker, and Jean-Francois Trinh Tan -- 4. Food price … consumption pattern : a conceptual and sociological overview / Vani S. Kulkarni. …-applicable insights for scholars and policy analysts seeking to understand the past, present and future of food around the world …
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The purpose of this study is to measure the sensitivity of traded quantities and trade unit values to agricultural production shocks. We develop a general equilibrium model of trade in which production shocks in exporting countries affect both traded quantities and trade unit values. The model...
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: possibilities and probabilities / Nina V. Fedoroff -- Trade's contribution to global food security / Kym Anderson -- Feeding a world …"This timely collection of 15 essays addresses the relationships between human population growth (and consumption); the … need to increase food supplies to feed the world population, and the chances for avoiding the extinction of a major …
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In the last years, there has been a growing interest in studying the global food system as a complex evolving network. Much of the literature has been focusing on the way countries are interconnected in the food system through international-trade linkages, and what consequences this may have in...
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This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
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world. The goal of the present paper is to quantify the macro-level consequences of these micro-level shocks. Using an …
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