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A food crisis was brewing even before the Ukraine war – but taking these three steps could help the most vulnerableRussia’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 FamineWorking Paper
Income and price elasticities of demand in South Africa: An application of the linear expenditure systemThis paper investigates the expenditure patterns of South African households using detailed cross-sectional expenditure and price data...
Aeronautics Consumption Food supplyJournal Article
The Rise of a Middle Class in East and Southern Africa: Implications for Food System TransformationPart of Journal Special Issue The Political Economy of Africa's Emergent Middle Class
Food supply UrbanizationBlog
The Political Economy of Food Price Policy - An Interview with Per Pinstrup-Andersen
In this interview, Per Pinstrup-Andersen talks about the international project which has culminated in the book Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability . (Oxford University Press, 2015) More about the project ...
Agricultural industries Food security Food supplyBlog
From the Editor's Desk (May 2015)
May is always a hopeful month. With 18 hours of daylight we are all perky—especially the seagulls who swarm around Helsinki harbour. Here at UNU-WIDER the communications team is busy with the new website which will roll out later in the year...
Agricultural industries Economic assistance and foreign aid Food securityPolicy seminar
Food price policy in an era of market instability - a political economy analysis
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From the Editor’s Desk (February 2015) February found UNU-WIDER busy sending out Calls for Papers on topics ranging from social protection to clean energy to discrimination and affirmative action. You can find them here . There are more to come...
Agricultural industries Climate change Economic assistance and foreign aidBlog
UNU-WIDER @ 302015 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 inequalityPolicy Brief
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From the Editor’s Desk (January 2015) We are now into 2015, and the year is already gathering speed. 2015 is of course the 70th anniversary of the United Nations, and a major year in global development with the conclusion of the MDG process, and the start of a new chapter with the SDGs...
Agricultural industries Balance of payments ChildrenWorking Paper
The Impact of Food Price Volatility on Consumer Welfare in CameroonThe objective of this paper is to analyse the welfare effects of food price volatility on Cameroonian consumers...
Food supply Households PricesBlog
WIDER Annual Lecture 18: Managing Structural Transformation 18 December 2014 Roger Williamson At the UN headquarters in New York on 18 November 2014, Peter Timmer, emeritus professor from Harvard, showed how the three transformations (structural, agricultural, and dietary) relate to development...
Agriculture Climate change Structural adjustment (Economic policy)Book
Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability: A Political Economy AnalysisThis book is Open Access and available here . Food price volatility is one of the major challenges facing current and future global food systems...
Agricultural industries Food security Food supplyWorking Paper
The Economywide Impacts and Risks of Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy ProgrammeWe estimate the impact of Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Programme using an economywide approach. We find potentially substantial net benefits with indirect benefits accounting for about two-fifths of total benefits...
Agriculture Food supplyBook Chapter
The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in EgyptFrom the book: Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability
Agriculture Economic policy Food supplyBook Chapter
The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in South AfricaFrom the book: Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability
Food supply