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linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large … variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict across the country; surprisingly, food insecurity is not higher in conflict … conflict in the province where the household is located. We find robust evidence that households in provinces with higher …
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We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. We use a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression (UQR) estimator, based on influence functions to examine...
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nutrition (GPN). Foresight studies agree that it will be challenging to transform the agri-food system into one that is …
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security in developing economies and draw out its implications for East Africa and future research. While there is now an …
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deprivation and poverty, and argue against delinking of the two. We analyse poverty nutrition traps, whether child undernutrition …
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relationship between conflict and food insecurity in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large variations in … levels of food insecurity and conflict across the country; surprisingly, high conflict provinces are not the most food … insecure. Using a simple bivariate regression model of conflict (violent incidents and persons killed or injured) on food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014159693
This paper investigates the impact of rising food prices – during the 2007/08 global food crisis – on food security in Afghanistan. Exploiting the temporal stratification of a unique nationally-representative household survey, we find evidence of large declines in real per capita food...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139354
linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large … variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict across the country; surprisingly, food insecurity is not higher in conflict … conflict in the province where the household is located. We find robust evidence that households in provinces with higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104947
We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. We use a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression (UQR) estimator, based on influence functions to examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107472