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A food crisis was brewing even before the Ukraine war – but taking these three steps could help the most vulnerable

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to the disruption, by sanctions or war, of two of the world’s largest grain exporters. This means 2022 is shaping up to be a very difficult year for the global food system...

Violent conflict Food supply Famine
Blog
UNU-WIDER @ 30

2015 marks the 30th anniversary of UNU-WIDER. The Institute opened its doors in 1985. It has been quite a ride ever since. We have had thousands of economists and other social scientists through those Helsinki doors since 1985...

Climate change History of economics Equality and inequality
Book Chapter
Can Food-for-Work Programmes Reduce Vulnerability?

From the book: Insurance Against Poverty

Economic assistance and foreign aid Famine Poverty
Journal Article
Growth and shocks: evidence from rural Ethiopia

Using panel data from rural Ethiopia, the article discusses the determinants of consumption growth (1989–1997), based on a microgrowth model, controlling for heterogeneity...

Famine Risk
Working Paper
Can Food-for-Work Programmes Reduce Vulnerability?

Food-for-work (FFW) programmes have been widely heralded as a means of providing self-targeting transfers coupled with investment in public goods...

Economic assistance and foreign aid Famine Poverty
Book
The Political Economy of Hunger: Selected Essays

Hailed in its initial publication as a work with urgent implications for countless lives, Dréze and Sen's The Political Economy of Hunger is the classic analysis of an extraordinary paradox: in a world of food surpluses and satiety, hunger kills ...

Famine Food security Hunger
Book Chapter
Feeding China: The Experience Since 1949

From the book: The Political Economy of Hunger

Central planning Commune Communist
Book Chapter
The Food Problems of Bangladesh

From the book: The Political Economy of Hunger

Agriculture and state Famine Food security
Book Chapter
Famine Prevention in India

From the book: The Political Economy of Hunger

Agriculture and state Central planning Famine
Book Chapter
Introduction to The Political Economy of Hunger

From the book: The Political Economy of Hunger

Famine Food security Hunger
Book Chapter
The Food Crisis in Africa: A Comparative Structural Analysis

From the book: The Political Economy of Hunger

Agriculture Famine Food security
Working Paper
The Entitlement Approach to Famine: An Assessment

Famine Marketing (Farm produce) Food supply
Working Paper
External Imbalances, Famines And Entitlements: A Case Study

The study proceeded by broadly categorizing the various defects of the economy as manifestations of two disequilibria in the system...

Balance of payments Famine Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
Working Paper
The Ethiopian Famines, Entitlements and Governance

Famine Marketing (Farm produce) Food supply
Book
The Political Economy of Hunger: Endemic Hunger : Volume 3

This book is the third of three volumes...

Famine Food security Hunger
Book
The Political Economy of Hunger: Famine Prevention : Volume 2

This book is the second of three volumes...

Famine Marketing (Farm produce) Food security
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