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Ecosystems for water and food security. [Background paper]
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010879151
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Does SNAP Decrease Food Insecurity? Untangling the Self-Selection Effect
Nord, Mark; Golla, Anne Marie - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2009
Self-selection by more food-needy households into the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly called the Food Stamp Program) makes it difficult to observe positive effects of the program in survey data. This study investigates self-selection and ameliorative program effects by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008518941
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U.S. Food Aid: It’s Not Your Parents’ Program Any More!
Barrett, Christopher B. - In: Journal of Agribusiness 24 (2006) 1
Much has changed in the 50 years since modern food aid began with the enactment of U.S. Public Law 480 in 1954. Yet contemporary policy debates often become derailed by failures to appreciate the significant changes that have already occurred. This paper identifies the most important of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519353
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Food Security in Developing Countries
Staatz, John M.; Boughton, Duncan; Donovan, Cynthia - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009
This paper provides a systematic definition of food security, focusing on its different dimensions; examines the nature and magnitude of the different dimensions of food insecurity in developing countries; discusses the difficult tradeoffs that policy makers face in trying to address food...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000477
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Long-term Effects of the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard on World Hunger
Bryant, Henry L.; Lu, Jiamin; Richardson, James W.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
We employ a multi-region computable general equilibrium model of the world economy to estimate changes in worldwide food insecurity that result from the imposition of the U.S. Renewable Fuels Standard.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020409
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Food Security for Whom? The Effectiveness of Food Reserves in Poor Developing Countries
Romero-Aguilar, Randall S.; Miranda, Mario J. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014
During the Global Food Price Crisis of 2007-2011, millions of people suffered from hunger because food had become …-importing country. Households are heterogeneous in their income endowment, and those who cannot afford enough food suffer from hunger … households are unable to self-insure against changes in this price. The objective of the reserve operation is to reduce hunger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011068637
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Do Farmers Internalise External Impacts of Pesticides in Production?
Skevas, Theodoros; Stefanou, Spiro E.; Oude Lansink, … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010
low toxicity pesticides, and variables reflecting pesticide impacts on biodiversity and operator’s health. The application … focuses on panel data of Dutch cash crop producers. The pesticide contribution on some biodiversity categories are found to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201375
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An Econometric Analysis of the Environmental Benefits Provided by the Conservation Reserve Program
Fleming, Ronald A. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 36 (2004) 02
Over $1.7 billion has been spent on the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) since 1985. The purpose of this study is to show that these expenditures have aided the environment. Rather than quantify changes in environmental variables, a spatial econometric model is used to test if CRP enrollments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005802746
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Rancher preferences for a payment for ecosystem services program in southwestern Wyoming
Hansen, Kristiana; Duke, Esther; Bond, Craig A.; … - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 146 (2018), pp. 240-249
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Perverse incentives and safe harbors in the endangered species act : evidence from timber harvests near woodpeckers
Byl, Jacob P. - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 157 (2019), pp. 100-108
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