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This paper examines the patterns of food consumption in Sri Lanka from 1985 to 2009 using the food disappearance data … published by the Food and Agriculture Organization. Trends in per capita daily calorie, protein and fat supply have been … examined. The study finds that grain food products are the main source of calories and protein, while fat-calories were mainly …
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.g. trade of food and forest products) and their interactions with each other and with other factors. The socioeconomic and … products and other ecosystem services such as food and water continues to rise, telecouplings will become even more important … for sustainable forests, food security, water security, human well-being and environmental sustainability in the future …
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interventions to reduce beggar-thy-neighbor unilateral trade policy responses to food price fluctuations. …
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Food security is an important social objective and relying on international food markets to meet the needs of Indonesia …'s growing population is precarious. The policy of restricting food imports through tariffs or quantitative restrictions promotes … the goal of food self-sufficiency, but does so at the cost of reducing the food security of the most vulnerable people â …
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competitiveness, for example by obtaining off-farm employment, the farm-nonfarm household income gap may increase. A decline in food … self-sufficiency may be perceived as undermining national food security, and a persistent farm-nonfarm income gap as … consider for ensuring adequate long-term food security and less income inequality? This paper evaluates China's historical …
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the growth rates of China and India are lower by one-quarter, and the other in which this slowdown in emerging economies …
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Food security in Asia and the Pacific presents a frustrating paradox. At one level, huge progress has been made in the … past half century in bringing most of the population out of poverty and hunger. Measured by the key determinants of food … security—improved availability, access, utilisation and stability—food security has never been at higher levels. Large pockets …
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Economic growth and integration in Asia is rapidly increasing the global economic importance of the region. To the extent that this growth continues and is strongest in natural resource-poor Asian economies, it will add to global demand for imports of primary products, to the benefit of...
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What are the root causes of Africa's current state of under-development? Is it the long history of slave trade, or the legacy of extractive colonial institutions, or the fallout of malaria? We investigate the relative contributions of these factors using an instrumental variable approach. The...
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