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Reclaiming the Right to Food as a Normative Response to the Global Food Crisis

Narula, Smita - 2015

The number of hungry in the world has crossed the one billion mark, a dubious milestone that has been attributed in … world. Ironically, a great majority are involved in food production as small-scale independent food producers or … agricultural laborers. These facts and figures signal a definitive blow to efforts to reduce global hunger and lift the world …

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Cuba : Agricultural Transition and Food Security in a Global Perspective

Riera, Olivia - 2015

This paper reviews the situation in the agricultural sector and food security in Cuba and in particular the transformations that have (not) taken place since 1990. We compare the Cuban transition with transitions in other “transition countries” and show that Cuba does not fit easily in one...

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Unscrambling COVID-19 Food Supply Chains

Malone, Trey; Schaefer, K. Aleks; Lusk, Jayson - 2020

This article uses evidence from the egg industry to investigate how the shift from food-away-from-home and towards food-at-home affected the U.S. food supply chain. We find that the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic increased retail and farm-gate prices for table eggs by approximately 141% and...

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India's political economy responses to the global food price shock of 2007 - 08 : learning some lessons

Gulati, Ashok; Saini, Shweta - 2015

robust production and stock levels, rice exports surged when India freed up its exports in September 2011, making it a world …

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Chinese food security and climate change : agriculture futures

Ye, Liming; Tang, Huajun; Wu, Wenbin; Yang, Peng; … - 2014

Climate change is now affecting agriculture and food production in every country of the world. Here the authors present …

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Russia's food security and climate change : looking into the future

Kiselev, Sergey; Romashkin, Roman; Nelson, Gerald C.; … - 2013

Global climate change presents long-term risks to agriculture. In general, global climate change is expected to positively affect Russian agriculture. In high and middle latitudes, global warming would expand the growing season. Acreages of agricultural crops may expand toward the north,...

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Bilateral trade and food security

Brooks, Douglas Howard; Ferrarini, Benno; Go, Eugenia - 2013

We analyze the relationship between food security and trade, focusing on food importers' exposure to sudden market failures from relying on a narrow range of international suppliers. We compute a bilateral import penetration index (BIPI), which gauges the degree to which a country depends on...

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Food prices and population health in developing countries : an investigation of the effects of the food crisis using a panel analysis

Lee, Suejin; Lim, Jae-young; I, Hyeon hun; Park, Cyn-Young - 2013

High food prices can be an immediate threat to household food security, undermining population health, retarding human development, and lowering labor productivity for the economy in the long term. We employ a panel dataset covering 63 developing countries from 2001 to 2010 to make a...

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International transmission of food prices and volatilities : a panel analysis

I, Hyeon hun; Park, Cyn-Young - 2013

High and volatile food prices pose a significant policy challenge around the world, and an understanding of the …

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Key policy actions for sustainable land and water use to serve people

Braun, Joachim von; Gulati, Ashok; Kharas, Homi Jamshed - 2017

To achieve food security for all, new resource policies for sustainable land and water use are needed. Land, water and energy need to be considered jointly in policies, not in isolation. G20 countries' policy makers, corporate and civil society actors, and those of other countries should act in...

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