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Reclaiming the Right to Food as a Normative Response to the Global Food Crisis

Narula, Smita - 2015

The number of hungry in the world has crossed the one billion mark, a dubious milestone that has been attributed in … world. Ironically, a great majority are involved in food production as small-scale independent food producers or … agricultural laborers. These facts and figures signal a definitive blow to efforts to reduce global hunger and lift the world …

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Food prices and population health in developing countries : an investigation of the effects of the food crisis using a panel analysis

Lee, Suejin; Lim, Jae-young; I, Hyeon hun; Park, Cyn-Young - 2013

High food prices can be an immediate threat to household food security, undermining population health, retarding human development, and lowering labor productivity for the economy in the long term. We employ a panel dataset covering 63 developing countries from 2001 to 2010 to make a...

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International transmission of food prices and volatilities : a panel analysis

I, Hyeon hun; Park, Cyn-Young - 2013

High and volatile food prices pose a significant policy challenge around the world, and an understanding of the …

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India's political economy responses to the global food price shock of 2007 - 08 : learning some lessons

Gulati, Ashok; Saini, Shweta - 2015

robust production and stock levels, rice exports surged when India freed up its exports in September 2011, making it a world …

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Food production versus population from food security perspective

Raluca, Andreea Ion; Petre, Ionut Laurentiu - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : trends and …, (pp. 116-121). 2023

The food-population ratio has two determinants: population and agricultural production. The population is constantly growing, putting pressure on existing resources, which are becoming insufficient. Globally, agricultural production has grown at the same rate as population growth, but at...

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Food aid and violent conflict : a review of literature

Koppenberg, Maximilian; Mishra, Ashok K.; Hirsch, Stefan - 2023

We decompose the relationship between food aid and conflict into the channels through which food aid can affect conflict. We address questions of methodological choice and estimation techniques for empirical studies. Our review of the empirical evidence on the effect of food aid on conflict...

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Thoughts on how trade, and WTO rules, can contribute to the post-2015 development agenda

Roberts, Michael - 2014 - Manuscript date: 13 June 2014

date. Indeed, sustainable development is recognized as an objective in the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade …

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Institutionalizing Inequality : The WTO Agreement on Agriculture, Food Security, and Developing Countries

Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2009

The article examines the food security implications of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture. It places the Agreement in historical context, examines its key provisions, and argues that the Agreement systematically favors industrialized country agricultural producers at the expense of farmers in...

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Trade Liberalization, Food Security and the Environment : The Neoliberal Threat to Sustainable Rural Development

Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2011

developing world. It chronicles the patterns of trade and production that contribute to this problem from the colonial period … International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) exacerbate hunger and environmental … earnings needed to finance the import of food and other necessities to fluctuating world market prices for agricultural …

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Climatic Shocks and Food Security : The Role of Foreign Aid

Kinda, Somlanare - 2016

Little is known about the role that foreign aid can play in dampening the effect of climate change. This paper investigates the role of aid in mitigating the adverse effect of climatic shocks on food security in developing countries. Because foreign aid is an important source of revenue for...

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