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ESA Working Paper 02-08
Working paper, 2002
The policy reforms introduced in Latin America in the 1980s and 1990s have induced profound and beneficial changes in the overall productive structure of most Latin American countries, and particularly concerning the increased competitiveness and...
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ESA Working Paper 02-07
Working paper, 2002
Poverty and food security in most countries are highly heterogeneous phenomena. Both types and depth of poverty, measured in a variety of ways, vary between and within countries, regions or other geographic and administrative units....
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Book/book chapter, 2002
For the third edition, we have doubled the number of countries for which production-related information is provided. This is due to help from Foreword the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), which...
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ESA Working Paper 02-06
Working paper, 2002
The objective of this research is to analyze the food consumption patterns and to conduct econometric analysis of food demand structure in Japan. In this study, we pay special attention to the questions on whether...
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Journal articles, 2002
The paper clarifies the “meso-economy” concept by defining it as comprising both the market mechanisms and administrative procedures through which policy decisions and market signals trickle down to the household level. Three main bodies of...
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Country case study, 2002
This publication contains four in-depth reviews on current and emerging issues in the economic analysis of food, agriculture and rural development, written by well-known scholars in the field. The selection of the issues for in-depth...
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Journal articles, 2002
Golden rice (GR) is a new rice variety that has been genetically modified to contain beta-carotene, a source of vA. This modification was undertaken as a strategy to address VAD, which is widespread in less...
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Journal articles, 2002
In recent years, there has been increasing emphasis in the rural development literature
on the multiple income-generating activities undertaken by rural households and the
importance of assets in determining the capacity to undertake these activities.
Controlling for endogeneity...
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Food insecurity – when people live with hunger and fear starvation
Major report, 2002
This fourth edition of The State of Food Insecurity in the World (SOFI) provides the latest estimates of the number of chronically hungry people in the world and reports on global and national efforts to...
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Country case study, 2002
Evidence from developing countries points towards the growing importance of non-farm activities in the income-generating portfolio of rural households (Lanjouw and Stern, 1993; Estudillo and Otsuka, 1998). From an extensive review of the literature, Reardon...
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