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Food Waste and Food Retail Density
Landry, Craig E. - 2017
This paper examines the relationship between food retail density and municipal solid waste. We test for correlations between the volume of solid waste and the number of food-at-home retailers (e.g., grocery stores) and food-away-from-home retailers (e.g., restaurants) at the county level in the...
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Urban Food Markets and the Lockdown in India
Narayanan, Sudha; Saha, Shree - 2020
On March 24, 2020, the Government of India announced a 21-day national lockdown that has since been extended to May 3, 2020. The lockdown has left urban food markets in disarray with severe supply bottlenecks and restrictions on doing business. At a time when food prices in India were declining...
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The impact of food price shocks on weight loss : evidence from the adult population of Tanzania
García-Germán, Sol; Romeo, Alessandro; Magrini, Emiliano - 2016
Undernourishment is still widespread in Tanzania, while obesity is becoming an issue of magnitude similar to undernutrition in the country. In this paper we examined the impact of an increase in maize prices on the nutritional status of Tanzania's adult population. We found that undernutrition...
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Estimating food demand and the impact of market shocks on food expenditures : the case for the Philippines and missing price data
Valera, Harold Glenn; Mayorga, Joaquin; Pede, Valerien O.; … - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 2 (2022) 2, pp. 1-25
This study uses the Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System to estimate food demand among Filipino households. Our study … price data on food groups. Results show that demand for rice with respect to prices and expenditures is relatively inelastic … elasticity for sugar. Demand for rice is generally less elastic for higher-income Filipinos and families residing in urban areas …
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Food demand analysis of Indonesian households with particular attention to the poorest
Pangaribowo, Evita Hanie; Tsegai, Daniel - 2011
The purpose of this study is to analyze the demand responses of Indonesian households to food prices, income changes … Ideal Demand System model which in cludes demographic and regional factors. Results reveal the well known pattern that food … demand behavior varies significantly between urban and rural households as well as income groups. The poorest households …
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A new approach to estimate household food demand with panel data
Dong, Diansheng; Hayden, Stewart; McLaughlin, Patrick W. - In: Journal of applied economics 21 (2018) 1, pp. 122-136
This article develops a model of food demand in which the quality and quantity of food purchased and the inter … are heavily censored at zero. The traditional approach for working with such data in demand estimation usually involves …
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Quantifying demand and willingness to pay for local food production
Ortez, Mario; Thompson, Taylor; Kilders, Valerie; … - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 4 (2024) 1, pp. 1-20
The location of production and processing has had an increasingly prominent role in discussions regarding food systems today. Acknowledging the increasing importance, we study consumer preferences for and perception of local products with a particular focus on how willingness to pay (WTP) for...
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On price endogeneity in the analysis of food demand in China
Hovhannisyan, Vardges; Bozic, Marin - 2013
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A meta-analysis of food demand elasticities for China
Chen, Danhong; Abler, David Gerrard; Zhou, De; Yu, Xiaohua - In: Applied economic perspectives and policy 38 (2016) 1, pp. 50-72
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Is food supply accessible, affordable, and stable? : the state of food security in the Philippines
Galang, Ivory Myka R. - 2022
Based on The Economist's 2021 Global Food Security Index (GFSI), the Philippines ranked 64th out of 113 countries in … explosion, hunger, and poverty. The Philippines, just like other countries in the world, was actively searching for solutions …
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