changes are altering agricultural markets in particular and thereby food security. It does so retrospectively and by … are drawn out, followed by effects of the boom in non-farm sectors on agricultural self-sufficiency and real food … efficiently Asia’s concerns about food security and rural-urban income disparity than the trade policy measures used by earlier …

Six methods for measuring food security are identified from the literature. The dietary intake method (DIM) and the … food insecurity experienced-based measurement scales (FIEMS), the two most commonly used, were empirically tested using … 1152 rural households in the Punjab province of Pakistan. Results show significant differences in the measurement of food …

We assess the relative impacts of receiving cash versus food transfers using a randomized design. Drawing on data … collected in eastern Niger, we find that households randomized to receive a food basket experienced larger, positive impact on … measures of food consumption and diet quality than those receiving the cash transfer. Other outcomes showed greater variation …

The Global Food Price Crisis of 2007-2011 had mixed effects on the poor in developing nations. By some estimates, the … Crisis lifted nearly 24 million poor farmers out of poverty; however, it also cast 68 million net food buyers into poverty …. In this paper, we analyze the distributional impacts of the Crisis and the merits of different food security policies …

The literature on the impacts of biofuels on food prices is characterized by contradictory findings and a wide range of … for food security worldwide. The literature suggests that biofuels expansion will raise the number of people at risk of …

their food security in lean season because of aversion to stock losses. Expected post-harvest losses might therefore be more …

Service (ERS) research documented improvements in food spending and food security from 2008 to 2009 that may have resulted … to 2011 as a result of the reduction in real value of SNAP benefits due to inflation in food prices. Changes in food … spending and food security from 2009 to 2011 were compared between households that did and did not receive SNAP using Current …

Prior research has shown that food insecurity is more common among U.S households with an adult who has a work …-limiting disability than among other households. To provide more detail on the prevalence of food insecurity by a range of types of … disabilities, we analyzed data from the Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement (2009 and 2010). We focused on two …

This paper examines the situation of food security for the landless rural households of the Punjab province in Pakistan … were measured to be food insecure. Household’s monthly income and household head’s education levels of middle and … intermediate were positively impacting household food security. On the other hand, household heads’ age and family size were …