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Inequality,Poverty and Hunger in Developing Countries: Sustainability Implications
Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
For several decades, the international community has aspired to integrate the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Yet, no country has achieved the patterns of consumption and production that could sustain global prosperity in the coming decades. Thus, with the...
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Rice Price Volatility : A Dilemma for Public Policies in Asia and Europe?
Zolin, Bruna - 2010
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International Food Price Volatility : Transmission to Domestic Prices and Policy Response in Bolivia and Peru
Maletta, Hector E. - 2013
World food prices surged strongly in recent years, with two waves of rising prices in 2007-08 and 2010-11. For food-importing countries affected at the same time by significant levels of undernourishment and malnutrition, sudden rises in the international price of food may have a strong impact...
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Enhancing the food security of the peri-urban and urban poor through improvements to the quality, safety and economics of street-vended foods
Johnson, Paa-Nii T.; Yawson, Robert M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
There has been a continuing growth in urbanisation in developing countries, and governments’ face a major challenge in ensuring that city dwellers are able to procure sufficient food. Street foods are sold in almost every country in the world. In most towns and cities in Ghana, selling of...
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Mali - land, climate, energy, agriculture and development : a study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for regional development, jobs, and food security
Coulibaly, Ousmane - 2021
Mali is a Sub-Saharan African country with 19.1 million people. Almost half of this population lives in poverty, due to …
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Macro and Micro Dynamics for Empowering Trade, Industry and Society
Srivastava, Deepak - 2016
hazy, were visible during beginning of this decade. However, the journey was full of volatility and the entire period … for the trade, industry, environment and the society as a whole necessitating to come out with a new eco-system and …
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Incentives and constraints of informal trade between Nigeria and its neighbours
Hoffmann, Leena Koni; Melly, Paul - 2018
critical steps that might be taken to create a business environment that is more conducive and supportive of trade between West …
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Food and Feed Prospects to 2020 in the West Asia/North Africa Region
Nordblom, Thomas L.; Shomo, Farouk - 2016
The West Asia/North Africa (WANA) region contains large areas with rainy winters and hot, dry summers. The social-ecology of the region must be respected as well as the physical ecology. Dryland farming, irrigated farming and rangelands in WANA are often linked through the diets of grazing...
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Geography, Biogeography and Why Some Countries are Rich and Others Poor
Hibbs, Douglas A.; Olsson, Ola - 2010
The most important event in human economic history before the Industrial Revolution was the Neolithic transition from a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle to sedentary agriculture, beginning about 10,000 years ago. The transition made possible the human population explosion, the rise of...
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Measuring Maize Price Volatility in Swaziland using ARCH/GARCH approach
Sukati, Mphumuzi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper investigates maize price volatility in Swaziland as offered by NMC, an organization with a mandate of … stabilizing prices in the country. Price volatility is analyzed using ARCH/GARCH modeling techniques. Results show that the … control persistence in volatility. Asymmetric analysis of the prices shows that prices have not reacted unequally to shock …
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