Blog

by Patricia Justino October 2020

Professor Patricia Justino is a leading expert on the links between political violence and economic development. Her work has greatly expanded...

• Conflict
• Peace
• Hunger

Blog

Danielle Resnick and Regina Birner In recent years, there has been renewed emphasis on promoting agricultural production and food security in sub...

• Agriculture
• Agriculture and state
• Food security

Blog

Tony Addison and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa China and India are making immense strides in development. Growth in both countries has been impressive. But...

• Economic development
• Economic growth
• Poverty measurement

Blog

by Duncan Green November 2012

Duncan Green Updating a book on contemporary events can be unnerving. In the intervening years, events and new thinking combine to expose the...

• Democracy
• Ecology
• Economic development

Research Brief

The recent food price crisis and the responses of the policy makers in developing countries provide an unprecedented opportunity to analyse the policy processes in these countries. Policy responses differed depending on the nature and magnitude of...

• Accounting
• Aeronautics
• Agriculture

Working Paper

The substantive role that vitamin and mineral deficiencies play in shaping crisis-related morbidity and mortality was not widely understood when Amartya Sen elaborated his arguments about moral rights of the hungry, entitlements, and public action...

• Food security
• Food supply
• Humanitarian assistance

Working Paper

Over the past decade, a series of events in India have brought the question of food security into sharp focus. Vast famine-affected areas versus surplus production and stocks of grains, the impact of globalization and World Trade Organization laws on...

• Food security
• Government accountability
• Human rights

Working Paper

The food security scenario in South Asia has witnessed rapid progress over the last few decades, yet nutrition outcomes, especially those related to women and children, have failed to keep pace. This paper contends that the role of women in providing...

• Agricultural labourers
• Food security
• Poverty

Working Paper

Agriculture contributes substantially to output and employment in South Asian countries. Therefore, any change, like trade liberalization, that impacts on the agriculture sector has widespread ramifications in terms of employment, nutrition...

• Agriculture
• Food security
• International trade

Working Paper

Food insecurity at the household level has become unacceptable in India where the economy is growing at high rates and food sufficiency is already achieved at the macro-level. Food security has always been an important issue in the Indian political...

• Consumption
• Food security
• Households

Working Paper

Basic human rights recognize the intrinsic value of freedom, only not for the value of freedom itself, but also for its instrumental role enabling an individual to choose a bundle of commodities and wellbeing. The role of food, a basic necessity of...

• Agriculture and state
• Food security
• Food supply

Working Paper

This paper offers an economic assessment of the opportunities and challenges provided by the WTO’s Doha Development Agenda, particularly through agricultural trade liberalization, for low-income countries seeking to trade their way out of poverty...

• Agriculture
• Food security
• Poverty

Working Paper

This study examines the role of women's intra-household status relative to men in children's food security in Pakistan. Data from the 1991 Pakistan Integrated Household Survey (PIHS) yield a measure of evidence of a positive relation between women's...

• Children
• Equality and inequality
• Food security

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Bioenergy in Southern Africa

• Biofuel
• Computable general equilibrium
• Food security

Working Paper

• Famine
• Marketing (Farm produce)
• Food security

Working Paper

The 2008 episode of food price explosion, political turmoil, and human suffering revealed important flaws in the current global food architecture. This paper argues that to safeguard the strengths of the current system, four failures in market...

• Agriculture
• Agriculture and state
• Food security