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

Working Paper

The consequences of climate change for agriculture and food security in developing countries are of serious concern. Due to their reliance on rain-fed agriculture both as a source of income and consumption, many low-income countries are generally...

• Agriculture
• Climate change
• Farm produce

Working Paper

Using data from a survey of Bangladeshi households, this paper investigates the link between female status and food security. Employing three different indicators of female status – husband’s and wife’s assets brought at marriage, female share of...

• Food security
• Households
• Women

Working Paper

We investigate if financial inclusion leads to improved nutrition in rural Rwanda, using Rwandan Integrated Household Living Conditions surveys (2013/14 and 2016/17). Our empirical evidence shows a robust positive impact of financial inclusion...

• Financial inclusion
• Food security
• Nutrition

Research Brief

Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa, poor in natural resources, and with low levels of human development. Its economy remains agricultural and focused on food crops and cotton production. Over the last twenty years it has experienced...

• Agriculture
• Equality and inequality
• Food security

Research Brief

Evidence obtained from detailed household surveys in Mozambique during the 2008-09 food price shock reveals just how pronounced the impact of food price inflation can be on children’s overall nutrition status. Moderate and severe underweight...

• Agriculture
• Children
• Food security

Research Brief

The Egyptian food system has been affected by both global food markets and domestic factors. During the recent global food price crisis, an estimated 30–40 percent of the price fluctuations in the global food market were transmitted to Egypt’s food...

• Agriculture
• Fiscal policy
• Food industry and trade

Research Brief

The global food crisis in 2007–08 raised concerns everywhere, including in China. However, despite China’s highly-integrated domestic and international markets for many agricultural commodities, the effect of the crisis in China was only moderate...

• Agriculture
• Food industry and trade
• Food security

Research Brief

Global food price hikes during 2007-08 resulted in a sharp rise in staple food prices in Bangladesh, which in turn led to a significant rise in the number of households falling below the poverty line. On the political front, Bangladesh was run by an...

• Agriculture
• Food security

Blog

by Luc Christiaensen August 2009

Luc Christiaensen Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER At the G8 July summit in Aquila, Italy, US$ 20 billion was pledged to support farmers in poorer...

• Agriculture
• Agriculture and state
• Food security

Working Paper

The effects of climate change in Turkey are expected to be significant. The aim of this paper is to quantify the effects of climate change on the overall economy by using an integrated framework incorporating a computable general equilibrium model...

• Agriculture
• Economic equilibrium
• Food security

Policy Brief

World hunger is prevalent yet receives relatively less attention compared to poverty. The MDGs have taken a step to address this with the resolution of halving the number of starving people in the world by 2015. A substantial and sustainable...

• Food security
• Human rights
• Hunger

Working Paper

Understanding the relationship between food insecurity and subjective evaluation of well-being is critical in designing social welfare policies, especially in developing countries. Surprisingly, literature on the topic is scarce. This study adopted...

• Food security
• Quality of life
• Welfare economics

Working Paper

• Food industry and trade
• Food security
• Humanitarian assistance

Working Paper

• Families
• Food security
• Malnutrition

Working Paper

• Equality and inequality
• Food security
• Life expectancy

Working Paper

The objective of this paper is to develop a Model that integrates the biologically determined human need for food energy and the economic activity (most) people Bust engage in to be able to eat. The optimal work effort and the optimal body size of...

• Food security
• International agencies
• Women

Working Paper

A large part of Africa is chronically affected by a severe food crisis which threatens the food security of many of her inhabitants. A peculiarity of this continent is that food production is not only a source of food but also a source of incomes for...

• Agriculture
• Famine
• Food security

Working Paper

The way markets respond to anti-hunger policies can have considerable bearing on their effectiveness. This paper investigates market responses to various policies, including direct transfer payments, relief work, food pricing policies, public grain...

• Food security
• Poor
• Government policy (Poor)

Working Paper

Our aim in this paper was to seek illumination on three questions pertaining to the food problems of Bangladesh: first, what are the processes perpetuating the food deprivation of great majority of the masses; secondly, has Bangladesh achieved over...

• Agriculture and state
• Famine
• Food security

Working Paper

• Children
• Food security
• Health

Blog

by Tony Addison March 2012

Tony Addison With the ice floes now gone from the harbour outside the UNU-WIDER building, and with the snow replaced by an icy hail, there is a...

• Agriculture
• Budget
• Nationalism

Working Paper

India’s policy responses to the food price crisis were strong. Exports of basic staples were banned. Domestic support prices of wheat and rice were raised substantially. The urea price increases in global markets were absorbed through enhanced...

• Agriculture
• Food industry and trade
• Food security

Working Paper

Food marketing is one of the fields where structural adjustment has been implemented throughout the Sub-Saharan Africa. This study analyses the impact of reform on the functioning and efficiency of food marketing. It is based on a comparative...

• Agriculture and state
• Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
• Food industry and trade

Working Paper

• Agriculture and state
• Central planning
• Famine

Working Paper

Liberalization of food marketings has been implemented as a part of structural adjustment programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this study we assess the i) the aims of the reform policy, ii) the implementation of specific reform measures, iii) the...

• Agriculture and state
• Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
• Food industry and trade

Working Paper

• Agricultural innovations
• Agriculture and state
• Farm produce

Journal Article

This paper evaluates the impact of an intervention to improve farming techniques and food security in the Gaza area of rural Mozambique. We examine the impact of a group-based approach to technology adoption in subsistence agriculture, using panel...

• Agriculture
• Food security
• Technological innovations

Blog

Tony Addison and Finn Tarp More than 200 researchers and policymakers came together in Helsinki in mid-May to celebrate UNU-WIDER's 25th anniversary...

• Climate change
• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Financial crisis

Policy Brief

• Agricultural industries
• Food security
• Food supply

Working Paper

• Public finance
• Food security
• Natural disasters

Working Paper

The focus of this paper is the role played in rural contexts by contract farming agreements between smallholders and private investors. These contracts can take different forms, but in general are agreements under which producers commit to supply...

• Contract farming
• Food security
• Mozambique

Working Paper

The predominant perception is that the world's food problems are now concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa. Declining food production and recurrent famine in many African countries are the focal points of much recent work on food problems. This paper...

• Children
• Food security
• Life expectancy

Working Paper

• Consumption
• Food security
• Health

Working Paper

After the devastating famine of 1974, Bangladesh has successfully avoided any further disaster of its kind, surviving two close calls in 1979 and 1984 and a succession of floods in the recent years. Welcome as it, this success raises for the analyst...

• Agricultural innovations
• Agriculture
• Agriculture and state

Working Paper

• Agriculture and state
• Food industry and trade
• Food security

Book Chapter

Book chapter in: P. Dorosh and S. Rashid (eds) Food and Agriculture in Ethiopia: Progress and Policy Challenges.Ethiopia’s economy has experienced rapid growth in recent years. Although growth in agricultural gross domestic product (GDP) from 1998 to...

• Agriculture
• Economic growth
• Food security

Book Chapter

Book chapter in: Fan, S., and R. Pandya-Lorch (eds.), Reshaping Agriculture for Nutrition and Health.In recent times, many countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, have been left puzzled by their failure to improve...

• Agriculture
• Food security
• Poverty

Journal Article

Rapid economic growth does not appear to have significantly improved poverty and nutrition outcomes in Tanzania. We link recent production trends to household incomes using a regionalized, recursive dynamic computable general equilibrium and...

• Economic growth
• Economic equilibrium
• Food security

Book Chapter

Part of Book Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability

• Sustainable development
• Foreign aid
• Agriculture

Book Chapter

Part of Book Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability

• Agriculture
• Sustainable development
• Food security

Working Paper

• Food security
• Malnutrition
• Methodology (Poverty)

Working Paper

This paper uses econometric methods and case-study evidence to examine the political economy of complex humanitarian emergencies, multidimensional crises characterized by warfare, disease, hunger, and displacement. We find that stagnation and decline...

• Conflict management
• Food security
• Humanitarian assistance

Journal Article

Many low-income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels will both reduce dependence on imported fossil fuels and stimulate economic development, particularly in poorer rural areas. Conversely, skeptics view biofuels as a threat to...

• Environment and economic development
• Food security
• Poverty

Book Chapter

Part of Book The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa

• Food security
• Political settlements
• Process tracing

Working Paper

Food insecurity and hunger have traditionally been measured by aggregate food supplies or by variables correlated with food insecurity. Because these measures often poorly reflect individuals’ true deprivation, economists have turned to surveys with...

• Equality and inequality
• Food security
• Poverty measurement

Working Paper

Food security is a complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon. As such, its measurement may entail and benefit from the combination of both ‘qualitative-subjective’ and ‘quantitative-objective’ indicators. Yet, the evidence on the external validity of...

• Food security
• Household survey
• Qualitative research methodology

Working Paper

India accounts for 16.7 per cent of the world’s food consumers. With the exception of China, India’s size in terms of food consumers is many times larger than the average size of the rest of the countries. At the time of independence in 1947, India...

• Agriculture
• Food security
• Marketing

Working Paper

This paper analyses the status of food security in selected South Pacific Island countries, namely Cook Islands, Fiji Islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu at the national and household levels during the period 1991...

• Agriculture and state
• Food industry and trade
• Food security

Working Paper

Analysing the performance of ten developing countries, Hoddinot and Yohannes (2002) find a strong association between two measures of food security (calorie intake and mostly dietary diversity) and the increase in expenditures per capita. Using...

• Consumption
• Food security
• Household survey

Working Paper

This paper considers to what extent the human right to food has been recognized by countries in the world, by analysing international obligations and constitutional provisions, bearing in mind that the right to food may be either explicitly or...

• Food security
• Human rights
• International law

Working Paper

The paper examines the state of food security in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), based on an analysis of a selection of indicators of food security and nutritional wellbeing during the period 1990-2002 within the context of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture...

• Agriculture and state
• Food industry and trade
• Food security

Working Paper

The paper examines the underlying political economy motivations of the government’s policy responses to food price increases in 2007/08 focusing particularly on maize as the main staple crop. The main government policy responses to the food price...

• Agriculture
• Food security
• Prices

Working Paper

Whilst traditional food security analysis offers an ex post view on who the food insecure are and why they are so, looking at food insecurity from a vulnerability perspective provides a dynamic and forward looking way of analysing causes and more...

• Food security
• Poverty
• Risk

Blog

by Tony Addison April 2013

30 April 2013 Tony Addison As April closes, our thoughts turn to UNU-WIDER’s spring/summer programme. And it’s a busy one. June sees us back in...

• Economic development
• Conflict management
• Economic assistance and foreign aid

Blog

by Tony Addison May 2014

28 May 2014 Tony Addison One indispensible part of modern life is the mobile phone. The communications revolution continues to surprise almost...

• Ecology
• Food security
• Methodology (Economics)

Blog

by Tony Addison June 2013

29 June 2013 Tony Addison The June-July summer issue of Angle comes to you amid the 19 hours daylight of the Finnish mid-summer. Last week UNU-WIDER’s...

• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Agriculture
• Children

Blog

by Tony Addison March 2013

Tony Addison This month saw UNU-WIDER in Stockholm for the ReCom results meeting on ‘aid and the social sectors’, which took place at Sida on 13 March...

• Decision making (Finance, Public)
• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Agriculture

Blog

by Roger Williamson December 2014

18 December 2014 Roger Williamson At the UN headquarters in New York on 18 November 2014, Peter Timmer, emeritus professor from Harvard, showed how...

• Agriculture
• Climate change
• Structural adjustment (Economic policy)

Blog

by Malokele Nanivazo June 2014

25 June 2014 Malokele Nanivazo After a long series of conflicts and apparent macroeconomic mismanagement, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) seems...

• Children
• Government policy (Poor)
• Education

Research Brief

Review shows that global agricultural production must be increased by about 70 per cent by 2050 in order to provide sufficient nourishment for the world’s growing population. Focusing on tropical climates to 2050, climate change is likely to reduce...

• Agriculture
• Climate change
• Public expenditure

Working Paper

Following an overview on the fast changing global context of agriculture, and food and nutrition security, this paper provides a framework for identifying the set of essential international public goods for a well-functioning world agriculture and...

• Economic development
• Food security
• International economic relations

Working Paper

Agricultural development is facing great challenges in meeting global food security and is expected to face even greater difficulties under climate change. The overall goal of this paper is to examine how foreign aid in particular can be used to...

• Agriculture
• Climate change
• Public expenditure

Working Paper

The Brazilian Ministry of Social Development’s co-operation with sub-Saharan Africa has shifted from an initial engagement in cash transfers to a recent engagement in food and nutritional security. This paper aims at understanding the main drivers...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Food security
• International economic relations

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid, Social Policy and Development

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Food security
• International economic relations

Blog

by Tony Addison January 2015

We are now into 2015, and the year is already gathering speed. 2015 is of course the 70th anniversary of the United Nations, and a major year in...

• Agricultural industries
• Balance of payments
• Children

Working Paper

Dramatically increased international agricultural commodity prices from 2007 to mid-2008 brought food inflation and greater incidence of poverty and malnutrition to developing countries. Higher food prices in 2011 threaten to repeat that crisis. The...

• Agriculture
• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Food security

Book Chapter

Part of Book The Political Economy of Hunger

• Equality and inequality
• Food security
• Welfare economics

Book Chapter

Part of Book Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure

• Agricultural labourers
• Food security
• Poverty

Research Brief

Current international agricultural development and food security systems are ill-prepared to address the global agriculture, food and nutrition problems. Structural reforms are necessary to deliver the essential international public goods for...

• Economic development
• Food security
• International economic relations

Working Paper

Many developing nations, especially the least developed countries, are subjected to recurrent spells of food insecurity. In order to understand food insecurity in these countries it is necessary to consider not only immediate or trigger-causes of...

• Agriculture and state
• Food security
• International economic relations

Working Paper

A comparative study of the public distribution systems of foodgrains in India and China is expected to reveal lessons and experiences that are valuable to policymakers. This is particularly important for developing countries in their endeavour to...

• Food security
• Poverty
• Public administration

Working Paper

Safety nets have often been controversial instruments, condemned in some circles as short-term palliatives or even a waste of money. Much recent evidence shows that safety nets not only support poverty reduction but also economic growth. The...

• Economic development
• Food security
• Poverty

Working Paper

HIV/AIDS has a severe impact on food security, affecting all of its dimensions: availability, stability, access, utilization. FAO recognizes that HIV/AIDS is a determining factor for, as well as a consequence of, food insecurity. Although the...

• Food security
• Health
• Households

Working Paper

The importance of supermarkets in the world food economy has increased radically since the early 1990s. They are now major sellers and buyers of food items not only in developed but also in developing countries. Urbanization and the liberalization of...

• Food industry and trade
• Food security
• Retail trade

Working Paper

This study aims to help identify how the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) could potentially constrain government action to achieve food security in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The paper considers the proposed tariff and subsidy...

• Agriculture and state
• Food security
• International agencies

Working Paper

This paper presents findings from two rounds (2020 and 2021) of a study on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on informal workers in 11 cities across five regions of the world (Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and North America). The study...

• Informal economy
• Economic impact
• COVID-19

Working Paper

This paper focuses on gender aspects upon children’s food security. Using data from the 1995/1996 Nepal Living Standards Survey, this study attempts to find evidence to whether children are heavier for their age, taller for their age or heavier for...

• Children
• Education
• Food security

Working Paper

The paper considers the impact of livelihoods oriented agricultural service provision for smallholder farmers on gender relationships and food security. The paper contents that the democratization and liberalization of agricultural services towards...

• Farm produce
• Food security
• Rural development

Working Paper

Using data from the 1995 Malawi Financial Markets and Food Security Survey, this study seeks to discover if women’s relative control over household resources or intra-household bargaining power in rural Malawi, gauged by their access to microcredit...

• Food security
• Households
• Microfinance

Working Paper

This paper addresses the economic impact of forest management on gender and food security of rural poor in Africa. The analyses reveal that deforestation places major demands on women and children’s time, limiting their opportunities to obtain an...

• Food security
• Forests and forestry
• Poor

Working Paper

During the recent food crisis, developing countries responded with a wide variety of policy responses to protect their population. Understanding the policy-making process in developing countries is important to know why such policy responses are made...

• Agriculture
• Public (Decision making)
• Food security

Working Paper

The food price crisis revealed contradictions in creating food policy. Much of the common policy response can be explained by a benevolent, unitary government. To understand the variance between countries, however, requires understanding fractured...

• Food security
• Decision making (Public administration)
• Public - private sector cooperation

Working Paper

The overall goal of this paper is to analyse the political economy of food price policies in China during the global food crisis. The results show that given China’s unique economic and political context and the nature of its agricultural markets...

• Agriculture
• Food security
• Decision making (Public administration)

Working Paper

The 2007-09 price shocks affected in particular the prices of food commodities and fuel. As a consequence, Mozambique experienced reduced exports, more expensive imports and increased food and oil prices, contributing to the stagnant poverty rates...

• Agriculture
• Food security
• Prices

Working Paper

India did not experience any food price spikes during 2007–08 when global food prices erupted. It was partly due to India’s ban on exports of wheat and common rice. But the fiscal stimulus that the government provided in 2009 in the wake of G8...

• Agriculture
• Food security
• Inflation

Working Paper

Many low income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels domestically will not only reduce their dependence on imported fossil fuels, but also stimulate economic development, particularly in poorer rural areas. Skeptics, on the...

• Environment and economic development
• Food security
• Poverty

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Climate Change and Economic Development

• Agriculture
• Climate change
• Farm produce

Working Paper

The food crisis of 2008 in Nigeria was influenced by price changes in the world market and the escalation of the price of imported fuel into Nigeria which led to sharp increases in the prices of agricultural inputs and transportation cost. The...

• Agriculture
• Economic policy
• Food security

Working Paper

Global food price hikes during 2007 and 2008 resulted in a sharp rise in staple food prices in Bangladesh. The poor and marginalized households were particularly vulnerable to such an adverse situation as their real purchasing power eroded. Several...

• Agriculture
• Public expenditure
• Food security

Working Paper

Food prices increased significantly in 2007–08 in Ethiopia due to several supply- and demand-side factors. The Ethiopian government released emergency food grain reserves, imported and distributed wheat at subsidized price, banned the export of...

• Agriculture
• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Food security

Book Chapter

Part of Book Vulnerability in Developing Countries

• Food security
• Humanitarian assistance
• Institutional economics

Book Chapter

Part of Book Vulnerability in Developing Countries

• Credit
• Economic equilibrium
• Food security

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Health and Development

• Children
• Food security
• Malnutrition

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Health and Development

• Equality and inequality
• Food security
• Index numbers (Economics)

Working Paper

While the nutritional status of individuals became in recent years a central issue in development economics, relevant and reliable data are often scarce. Available living standard surveys provide a wide set of information about household food...

• Children
• Food security
• Households

Working Paper

Using data from a 2004 household-based survey of children, we examine differences between boys and girls in self reports of food insecurity in Zimbabwe. Previous studies have taken only the views of the household head into consideration in...

• Children
• Food security
• Poverty

Working Paper

This paper investigates the economic conditions of rural households in China. Historical survey data indicate that over 80 per cent of rural households earn less than 4,500 yuan in net disposable income each year, that for the vast majority of rural...

• Credit
• Economic equilibrium
• Food security

Book Chapter

Part of Book COVID-19 and the Informal Economy

• Informal economy
• Economic impact
• COVID-19

Book Chapter

Part of Book COVID-19 and the Informal Economy

• Informal economy
• Economic impact
• COVID-19

Working Paper

Households in developing countries use a variety of informal mechanisms to cope with risk, including mutual support and risk-sharing. These mechanisms cannot avoid that they remain vulnerable to shocks. Public programs in the form of food aid...

• Food security
• Households
• Insurance

Working Paper

The paper examines the imperative for improved classification and analysis of food crises in different fragile contexts. Recognizing the persistence and protracted nature of food crises, the paper questions how prevention and response mechanisms...

• Food security
• Humanitarian assistance
• Institutional economics

Working Paper

Phenomenal increases in food prices in 2007 and 2008 caused governments around the globe to panic. During the chaos which ensued, most developing countries responded to the crisis with a convoluted array of policies intended to stabilize domestic...

• Agriculture
• Decision making (Finance, Public)
• Food security

Working Paper

This paper evaluates Kenya’s food price crisis over 2002–11 using a political economy approach. Kenya’s food prices have been high and volatile relative to world food prices. Moreover, domestic food markets are highly integrated while about 30 per...

• Agriculture
• Food security
• Macroeconomics

Book Chapter

Part of Book Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability

• Agriculture
• Food security
• Prices

Book Chapter

Part of Book Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability

• Agriculture
• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Food security

Book

This book is Open Access and available here. Food price volatility is one of the major challenges facing current and future global food systems. Since 2006, global food prices have fluctuated greatly around an increasing trend and price spikes were...

• Agricultural industries
• Food security
• Food supply

Book Chapter

Part of Book Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability

• Agricultural industries
• Food security
• Food supply

Book Chapter

Part of Book Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability

• Agriculture
• Decision making (Finance, Public)
• Food security

Book Chapter

Part of Book Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability

• Agriculture
• Public (Decision making)
• Food security

Book Chapter

Part of Book Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability

• Food security
• Decision making (Public administration)
• Public - private sector cooperation

Book Chapter

Part of Book Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability

• Agricultural industries
• Food security
• Food supply

Book Chapter

Part of Book Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability

• Agriculture
• Food security
• Decision making (Public administration)

Book Chapter

Part of Book Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability

• Agriculture
• Food security
• Inflation

Book Chapter

Part of Book Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability

• Agriculture
• Economic policy
• Food security

Book Chapter

Part of Book Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability

• Agriculture
• Public expenditure
• Food security

Book Chapter

Part of Book Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability

• Agriculture
• Food security
• Prices

Book Chapter

Part of Book Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability

• Agriculture
• Food security
• Macroeconomics

Blog

by Christian Friis Bach March 2013

Christian Friis Bach We need to unite the world in a strong effort to eradicate extreme poverty, promote sustainable development and ensure the right...

• Equality and inequality
• Food security
• Human rights

Book Chapter

Part of Book The Prevention of Humanitarian Emergencies

• Food security
• Humanitarian assistance
• National security

Book Chapter

Part of Book The Political Economy of Hunger

• Children
• Food security
• Life expectancy

Book Chapter

Part of Book Nutrition and Poverty

• Children
• Food security
• Health

Book Chapter

Part of Book Food Security

• Food security
• Household survey
• Qualitative research methodology

Book Chapter

Part of Book Food Security

• Food industry and trade
• Food security
• Retail trade

Book Chapter

Part of Book The WTO, Developing Countries and the Doha Development Agenda

• Agriculture
• Food security
• Poverty

Book Chapter

Part of Book Insurance Against Poverty

• Food security
• Households
• Insurance

Book Chapter

Part of Book Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure

• Agriculture and state
• Food security
• Food supply