Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effects of price and income changes on food and nutrient demand of … rural households by including own-produced food and production-side effects in the demand estimation to correct potential … and grain price changes on food and nutrition security are provided for economic nutrition security policy applications …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate dynamic food demand in urban China, with use of a complete … (UHS), we estimated the demand elasticities for primary food products in urban China. Findings – Our results indicate that … almost ideal demand system (LA/DAIDS). Employing provincial aggregate data (1995-2010) from the China urban household surveys …

Many studies of food demand do not use actual prices but unit values, obtained by dividing expenditures by the quantity … price elasticities of demand and applies the framework to data for rural China. Empirical results indicate that households … in rural China tend to consume higher-quality food as income increases, with a greater sensitivity to income for basic …