. In a similar vein, public food procurement has also been used to promote a number of positive outcomes. There is growing … interest among countries and international institutions in using public food purchases to promote the integration of … smallholders into markets and strengthen rural livelihoods. Despite the expansion of public food procurement from smallholder …

This paper replicates and extends the study of Zhang et al. (2010): „Food versus fuel: What do prices tell us?" Energy … and food commodities in the period between March 1989 and July 2008. In addition, we extend that study and examine the … and the USA in the three separate periods before, during, and after the food crisis of 2007 and 2008, we show that …

Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia …, a region characterized by a high level of malnutrition. The review finds that the level and stability of food prices … play a critical part in food consumption, with rising prices affecting poor households the most. Although public food …