The world food crisis has brought about heated discussions on policy responses and actions to achieve future stability and security in food consumption for the poor. While many viewing it as a supply proglem and propose to cope with it by incrasing self-supply, there are also propostitions of...

Replaced with revised version of paper 07/28/11. Former title: Indirect Effects of Microfinance: A Field Experiment on Formal Savings Expansion and Informal Safety Nets of the Ultra-Poor

Replaced with revised version of paper 07/29/11.

There is a strong linkage between the behavior of the rice market and the state of food security in many regions around the world, particularly in Asia, as made evident in the 2007-08 commodity crisis. Rice is a staple for the majority of the population in Asia, where roughly 60% of the close to...

This paper examines the relationship between household food security status, SNAP participation, and time used in food preparation and acquisition. Using the American Time Use Survey linked with the Current Population Survey's Food Security Supplement, we find that food insecurity and SNAP...

Dieser Artikel analysiert das Spektrum der durch den Ukraine-Krieg ausgelösten globalen Risikokaskaden und untersucht, welche Änderungen sich dadurch für die weltweite Risikovorsorgepolitik ergeben. Mit Hilfe des Konzepts "Globaler systemischer Risiken" werden die wichtigsten globalen Folgen...

The objective of this investigation was to analyze the characteristics of the agricultural structures of Brazilian family farming, in its multi-scale forms, as well as its aspects of location and specialization. Therefore, it was observed that the production structure of family farming in Brazil...