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The Economic Impacts of Pollinator Declines: An Approach to Assessing the Consequences

Kevan, Peter G.; Phillips, Truman P. - 2001

pollination systems in many areas of agriculture are threatened by the inadequacy or lack of sustainable managed, indigenous, or …

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People have to eat

Davies, Phil - In: Fedgazette (2004) Mar, pp. 15-19

Food processing in the district is doing surprisingly well. But its future-and that of rural areas that attract food plants-depends on economic forces that run much deeper than the recent downturn

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The quiet revolution in staple food value chains: Enter the dragon, the elephant, and the tiger

Reardon, Thomas (contributor); Chen, Kevin Z. (contributor); … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

requires urgent actions to improve the productivity and climate resilience of agriculture and to upgrade the food value chains …

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Food Security and Poverty in Asia and the Pacific: Challenges and Policy Issues

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2012

Ensuring a secure supply of food is essential, given the world’s (and especially Asia’s) growing population, high and volatile food prices, increasingly scarce resources, and changing environment. This paper discusses the drivers behind food insecurity in Asia and points to ways to mitigate...

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Dietary Patterns and Non-Communicable Diseases in Selected Latin American Countries

Bonilla-Chacin, Maria Eugenia; Vazquez, Luis T Marcano; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

To raise awareness among policymakers and health practitioners about unhealthy diets, this document examines dietary patterns in selected Latin American countries using household surveys. The analysis shows that a large percentage of households in the countries examined have inadequate diets....

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Modeling the Impact of Drought on Agriculture and Food Security in Sudan

Siddig, Khalid - Moroccan Association of Agricultural Economics (AMAEco) - 2011

particularly important in a country like Sudan, where agriculture contributes over 31% to GDP and the bulk of agricultural …

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Seeds of contention: World hunger and the global controversy over genetically modified crops

Pinstrup-Andersen, Per (contributor); … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

The authors assess the role various strategies can play in augmenting global food supplies and combating hunger.They attempt to defuse the contentious debate surrounding the development and spread of genetically modified (GM) foods, which, they argue, can help meet the needs of the poor.The...

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Agriculture, food, and health perspectives on a long relationship: understanding the links between agriculture and health

Lang, Tim - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

"Agriculture produces food fundamental for human health. It therefore seems obvious that agriculture, food, and health … are related! Agriculture affects whether people have enough food to eat, whether it is of sufficient nutritional value … different ways of looking at the relationships between agriculture, food, and health. Agricultural connections to food and …

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America's Eating Habits: Changes and Consequences

Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1999

agriculture. …

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Food Subsidies and Inflation in Developing Countries: A Bridge Between Structuralism and Monetarism

Parkin, Vincent; Srinivasan, T G; Vines, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1989

This paper examines the efficacy of food consumption subsidies as anti-inflation policy in developing countries characterized by rigidities of food supply. First a standard structuralist model is utilized to show that though a policy of food consumption subsidies brings down inflation in the...

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