Working Paper

Food marketing is one of the fields where structural adjustment has been implemented throughout the Sub-Saharan Africa. This study analyses the impact of reform on the functioning and efficiency of food marketing. It is based on a comparative...

• Agriculture and state
• Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
• Food industry and trade

Working Paper

• Agriculture and state
• Central planning
• Famine

Working Paper

Liberalization of food marketings has been implemented as a part of structural adjustment programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this study we assess the i) the aims of the reform policy, ii) the implementation of specific reform measures, iii) the...

• Agriculture and state
• Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
• Food industry and trade

Working Paper

• Agricultural innovations
• Agriculture and state
• Farm produce

Working Paper

The effects of climate change in Turkey are expected to be significant. The aim of this paper is to quantify the effects of climate change on the overall economy by using an integrated framework incorporating a computable general equilibrium model...

• Agriculture
• Economic equilibrium
• Food security

Working Paper

Understanding the relationship between food insecurity and subjective evaluation of well-being is critical in designing social welfare policies, especially in developing countries. Surprisingly, literature on the topic is scarce. This study adopted...

• Food security
• Quality of life
• Welfare economics

Working Paper

This study examines the role of women's intra-household status relative to men in children's food security in Pakistan. Data from the 1991 Pakistan Integrated Household Survey (PIHS) yield a measure of evidence of a positive relation between women's...

• Children
• Equality and inequality
• Food security

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Bioenergy in Southern Africa

• Biofuel
• Computable general equilibrium
• Food security

Working Paper

The substantive role that vitamin and mineral deficiencies play in shaping crisis-related morbidity and mortality was not widely understood when Amartya Sen elaborated his arguments about moral rights of the hungry, entitlements, and public action...

• Food security
• Food supply
• Humanitarian assistance

Working Paper

Over the past decade, a series of events in India have brought the question of food security into sharp focus. Vast famine-affected areas versus surplus production and stocks of grains, the impact of globalization and World Trade Organization laws on...

• Food security
• Government accountability
• Human rights

Working Paper

The food security scenario in South Asia has witnessed rapid progress over the last few decades, yet nutrition outcomes, especially those related to women and children, have failed to keep pace. This paper contends that the role of women in providing...

• Agricultural labourers
• Food security
• Poverty

Working Paper

Agriculture contributes substantially to output and employment in South Asian countries. Therefore, any change, like trade liberalization, that impacts on the agriculture sector has widespread ramifications in terms of employment, nutrition...

• Agriculture
• Food security
• International trade

Working Paper

Food insecurity at the household level has become unacceptable in India where the economy is growing at high rates and food sufficiency is already achieved at the macro-level. Food security has always been an important issue in the Indian political...

• Consumption
• Food security
• Households

Working Paper

Basic human rights recognize the intrinsic value of freedom, only not for the value of freedom itself, but also for its instrumental role enabling an individual to choose a bundle of commodities and wellbeing. The role of food, a basic necessity of...

• Agriculture and state
• Food security
• Food supply

Working Paper

This paper offers an economic assessment of the opportunities and challenges provided by the WTO’s Doha Development Agenda, particularly through agricultural trade liberalization, for low-income countries seeking to trade their way out of poverty...

• Agriculture
• Food security
• Poverty

Working Paper

The consequences of climate change for agriculture and food security in developing countries are of serious concern. Due to their reliance on rain-fed agriculture both as a source of income and consumption, many low-income countries are generally...

• Agriculture
• Climate change
• Farm produce