Working Paper

• Famine
• Marketing (Farm produce)
• Food supply

Working Paper

• Famine
• Marketing (Farm produce)
• Food supply

Blog

2015 marks the 30th anniversary of UNU-WIDER. The Institute opened its doors in 1985. It has been quite a ride ever since. We have had thousands of...

• Climate change
• History of economics
• Equality and inequality

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Globalization-Poverty Channels and Case Studies from Sub-Saharan Africa

• Marketing (Farm produce)
• Poverty measurement
• Rural development

Book Chapter

Part of Book The Political Economy of Hunger

• Agriculture
• Famine
• Marketing (Farm produce)

Book Chapter

Part of Book The Political Economy of Hunger

• Famine
• Marketing (Farm produce)
• Food security

Working Paper

The paper studies the experience of Ethiopia with regard to the two major famines the country has witnessed in the last fifteen years. It is argued that the entitlements approach developed by Amartya Sen provides a useful analytical framework within...

• Agriculture
• Marketing (Farm produce)
• Famine

Working Paper

This paper deals with questions of starvation and hunger from the perspective of food economics. It points to the need for focusing on the ‘acquirement’ of food by the respective households and individuals, and the fact that the overall production or...

• Famine
• Marketing (Farm produce)
• Food security

Working Paper

This paper investigates the factors that influence market participation in rural economies. This is based on the premise that participation in the market is an important channel through which the global economy impacts on the rural areas and can have...

• Marketing (Farm produce)
• Poverty measurement
• Rural development

Book

This book is the second of three volumes. Every year millions of people are losing their lives around the world, undeterred by the widespread opulence and remarkably higher per capita income, because of sporadic famines, endemic undernourishment, and...

• Famine
• Marketing (Farm produce)
• Food security

Book

This book is the first of three volumes. Every year millions of people are losing their lives around the world, undeterred by the widespread opulence and remarkably higher per capita income, because of sporadic famines, endemic undernourishment, and...

• Famine
• Marketing (Farm produce)
• Food security