Publications
Publications récentes
ESA Working Paper 11-14
Document de travail, 2011
The present paper attempts to identify the groups of households that most likely will face
positive or negative welfare consequences as a result of food price increases. Using data from household surveys and differentiating urban from...
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Comment la volatilité des cours internationaux porte-t-elle atteinte à l'économie et à la sécurité alimentaire des pays?
Publication phare, 2011
L'état de l''insécurité alimentaire dans le monde 2011 met en lumière la diversité des répercussions de la crise alimentaire mondiale de 2006 2008 sur les différents pays, les plus pauvres étant les plus durement touchés....
Produit d’information, 2011
This sample spread sheet accompanies the simple price monitoring tool to assess monthly changes in food prices.
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Manuel/directives, 2011
This paper presents a simple tool that can be used to monitor developments in market prices. The data requirements are relatively simple: all that is needed are monthly data on nominal market prices and the...
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Livre/chapitre d’un livre, 2010
The increasing volume of remittances and public transfers in rural areas of the developing world has raised hopes that these cash inflows may serve as an effective mechanism for reducing poverty in the long term...
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Articles de presse, 2010
World cereal prices have been increasing substantially since 2003. Until 2008, the Asian countries examined in this paper (Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam) had generally been able to contain domestic...
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Articles de presse, 2009
This study examines how different supply chain characteristics impose different coordination costs on vegetable processors. The results provide a basis for understanding the relative importance of four alternative supply chain characteristics to vegetable processors: (1)...
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ESA Working Paper 08-04
Document de travail, 2008
This paper suggests a methodology for estimating the effects of higher food prices on global undernourishment. The paper also presents the results of its implementation. The merits and drawbacks of this methodology are also discussed....
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Note de politique, 2008
During the first three months of 2008, international nominal prices of all major food commodities reached their highest levels in nearly 50 years while prices in real terms were the highest in nearly 30 years...
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Articles de presse, 2008
The extent to which commodity price volatility affects the income of producing households and their vulnerability to poverty and food insecurity depends on household diversification patterns and the degree of their exposure to markets. This...
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