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relationships and food security. The paper contents that the democratization and liberalization of agricultural services towards …
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This paper addresses the economic impact of forest management on gender and food security of rural poor in Africa. The … education or undertake income-generating activities. It also impairs the capacity of forests to contribute to food security. The … cocoa, timber prices, and food crop prices influence at various degrees the decision to deforest. The agricultural value …
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During the 2004 food crisis in Niger, the weakness of the main production system, millet, to produce enough food to … and development policies to intensify production and improve food security. The paper assesses technical options according …
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country by half by the year 2015. In consonance to this, this study examines food security and its relationship with socio …'s resource endowment and food security status was analyzed based on the calorie requirement for all household members according … to their sex and age. The food security measures applied in this paper are Head Count Method, Food Insecurity Gap, and …
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As one of the measures to smooth income, this paper focuses on the diversification of labor allocation across activities. A key feature of this paper is that it pays particular attention to differences in the covariance between weather risk and agricultural wages and between weather risk and...
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Eighty-nine percent of American households were food secure throughout the entire year 2001. The rest were food … insecure at least some time during the year, meaning they did not always have access to enough food for active, healthy lives … for all household members because they lacked sufficient money or other resources for food. The prevalence of food …
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Eighty-nine percent of American households were food secure throughout the entire year 2002, meaning that they had … access, at all times, to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members. The remaining households were … food insecure at least some time during that year. The prevalence of food insecurity rose from 10.7 percent in 2001 to 11 …
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This paper examines the role of supermarkets in developing countries from a 'food policy' perspective. The entire food …
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The emergence of decentralized programs of Food Security in Brazil reinforces the importance of analyzing processes of … characterize the Food Security Program of Campinas City (São Paulo State), contributing to the discussion about the municipal … characterization demonstrated the existence of a strong link between the food security municipal program and Fome Zero program, even …
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This paper documents the main findings of a study on food insecurity and vulnerability in the Indian state of Orissa in … support of promoting interventions for food security and livelihoods at state level. A similar study was undertaken in … Himachal Pradesh, India. The paper analyses the main characteristics and causes of food insecurity and vulnerability. It seeks …
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