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The Impact of Retaliatory Tariffs on Agricultural and Food Trade

Carter, Colin A. - 2020

This paper analyzes the short-run trade effects of retaliatory tariffs against agriculture and food exports from the United States. The results indicate that these tariffs caused a substantial decline in U.S. agriculture and food exports and induced a reorientation of international trade...

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Trade in Technology : A Potential Solution to the Food Security Challenges of the 21st Century

Hertel, Thomas W. - 2020

The recent rise in caloric undernutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) demonstrates the continued relevance of the Malthusian footrace between food availability and population. Sluggish growth in farm productivity in SSA has brought to the fore the key role of agricultural technology in...

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Did COVID-19 Market Disruptions Disrupt Food Security? Evidence from Households in Rural Liberia and Malawi

Aggarwal, Shilpa - 2020

surveys began collection several months before the pandemic and have continued throughout it. The household survey included a … consistent set of internationally accepted and validated questions on food security (the household dietary diversity score, the … household hunger scale, and the food consumption score). In both countries, market activity was severely disrupted and we …

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Long-term Effects of the Targeting the Ultra Poor Program

Banerjee, Abhijit - 2020

This paper studies the long-run effects of a "big-push" program providing a large asset transfer to the poorest Indian households. In a randomized controlled trial that follows these households over 10 years, we find positive effects on consumption (1 SD), food security (0.1 SD), income (0.3...

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The Future of Food : Long-term Prospects for the Agro-food Sector

1998

The agro-food sector in OECD countries is heading towards an era of turbulance and transition. With food demand in developing countries growing, barriers to trade and investment falling, and consumer tastes and preferences rapidly diversifying, the landscape of OECD food markets will be...

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Alternative futures for global food and agriculture

2016 - 1. Aufl.

We face the challenges of developing a global food system that will feed a growing and more affluent population while preserving sensitive ecosystems, competing for limited natural resources, increasing agricultural productivity growth while mitigating and adapting to climate change and other...

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Settlement, Market and Food Security

2013

Settlement dynamics have been reshaping West Africa’s social and economic geography. These spatial transformations – high urbanisation and economic concentration – favour the development of market-oriented agriculture. With the population of West Africa set to double by 2050, agricultural...

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Global Food Security : Challenges for the Food and Agricultural System

2013

This study examines how changes to the functioning of the world’s food and agriculture system can contribute to reduced hunger and the attainment of global food security. The challenge is wide ranging and multi-faceted. While food production will respond to the demands of a rising and more...

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Agricultural Policies for Poverty Reduction : A Synthesis

2012

This book synthesizes the findings of a longer work which sets out a strategy for raising rural incomes. It emphasises the creation of diversified rural economies with opportunities within and outside agriculture. Agricultural policies need to be integrated within an overall mix of policies and...

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Managing Food Insecurity Risk : Analytical Framework and Application to Indonesia

2015

Many of the recent concerns about food security relate to perceived threats to current levels of food security, such as those due to price shocks or natural disasters. These threats concern the risk of food insecurity. This publication develops a risk-management tool to examine the robustness of...

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