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THE GLOBALIZATION OF FOOD AND HOW AMERICANS FEEL ABOUT IT: RESULTS OF TWO SURVEYS

Mey, Brenda J. Vander - In: Journal of Food Distribution Research 35 (2004) 01

The two surveys used for this presentation were conducted in South Carolina and across the United States. It was found that "globalization" includes global food supply. Americans prefer American-grown and -processed foods over imported foods. They are willing to pay more for locally grown and...

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BIOFORTIFICATION, AN ALTERNATIVE TO REDUCE FOOD INSECURITY AND ITS ADVERSE EFFECTS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A HONDURAS CASE STUDY

Perez Suarez, Salomon - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE; … - 2010

Food insecurity can generate nutritional problems such as iron deficiency anemia, which in countries like Honduras is a moderate public health problem. The AgroSalud project is enhancing the iron content of beans and rice in order to improve the iron intake of vulnerable groups, especially...

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Smallholder Heterogeneity and Maize Market Participation in Southern and Eastern Africa: Implications for Investment Strategies to Increase Marketed Food Staple Supply

Mather, David; Boughton, Duncan; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2011

staples while maintaining low retail prices – are also key to continued poverty reduction, as smallholder incomes increase …

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Food security in Uganda: a dilemma to achieving the millennium development goal

Ssewanyana, Sarah N.; Kasirye, Ibrahim - Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) - 2010

terms of caloric intake is alarmingly high with low rates of income poverty. Based on the 2005/06 Uganda National Household …: halving extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. While Uganda is on track to halve extreme poverty, it is less likely to halve … extreme hunger by 2015. Yet the results suggest that food insecurity and income poverty are closely linked. Similarly, food …

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Staple Food Consumption Patterns in Urban Zambia: Results from the 2007/2008 Urban Consumption Survey

Mason, Nicole M.; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009

After two decades of de-urbanization, Zambia is again becoming increasingly urban. While the urban share of the population fell to 35% in 2000 due primarily to the decline of the copper industry, over half of Zambia’s people will be residing in urban areas by 2040. Given this urbanization...

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Plans communaux de sécurité alimentaire et leur relation avec les PDSEC, le PNSA et les Banques de céréales

Traore, Abdramane; Dembele, Niama Nango - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2008

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Population and Sustainability: Understanding Population, Environment, and Development Linkages

Clay, Daniel C.; Reardon, Thomas - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 1998

The triple challenge of rapid population growth, declining agricultural productivity, and natural resource degradation are not isolated from one another; they are intimately related. However, strategic planning and development programming tend to focus on individual sectors such as the...

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Input Use and Conservation Investments among Farm Households in Rwanda: Patterns and Determinants

Clay, Daniel C.; Kelly, Valerie A.; Mpyisi, Edson; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2001

One of the Government of Rwanda’s key post-war policy objectives has been to increase agricultural productivity and ensure food security by promoting a transition from semi-subsistence production and marketing practices to intensive production and highly commercialized agricultural markets....

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Improving Food Security in Africa: Highlights of 25 Years of Research, Capacity-Building, and Outreach.

Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009

Decades of research have led to substantially improved understanding of the nature of food insecurity. A combination of economic growth and targeted programs resulted in a steady fall (until the food crisis of 2007/08) in the percentage of the world’s population suffering from undernutrition...

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Household Food Security in the United States, 2006

Nord, Mark; Andrews, Margaret S.; Carlson, Steven - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2007

Eighty-nine percent of American households were food secure throughout the entire year in 2006, meaning that they had access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members. The remaining households (10.9 percent) were food insecure at least some time during the...

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