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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"food prices"”.
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Feeding unrest : food prices, food security and protest participation in Africa and South Africa
Recent food riots throughout much of Africa and the Middle East in the wake of spikes in international food commodity prices have fueled a renewed academic and popular interest in the long-recognized connection between food prices and social unrest. This dissertation addresses the question how do …
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An econometric study of public policy applied to renewable energy, economic growth and taxation
… effect of renewable energy utilization on many food price categories in relation to the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The second chapter investigates the link between public education expenditures and long term economic growth in the context of countries' institutional quality, while the third …
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Price and Income Dynamics in the Agri-Food System: A Disaggregate Perspective
… processes of redistribution in the agri-food sector, with particular reference to the US. It addresses the following questions: How has the rapid rise in food price instability since the turn of the twenty-first century impacted income shifts within the agri-food system? Which groups …
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Decomposition of Food Price Changes: Food-at-Home and Food-Away-From-Home Prices
Significant increases and fluctuations in the food price inflation of food-away- from-home (FAFH) and food-at-home (FAH) have been observed in the last couple of years. Many demand- and supply- driven factors may be responsible for such phenomena. On top of that, the total food price is a weighted …
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Evaluation of Food Assistance Programs and Implications of Patients' Health Information Seeking
… this dissertation evaluates the effectiveness of food assistance by gathering evidence from developing countries and the United States. The first essay applies a multi-market model to three developing countries and simulate recent spikes in staple prices and food aid impacts. Results indicate that …
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A hierarchical and longitudinal analysis of the effects of international food and agricultural commodity price surges on domestic income distribution
… global economic event, the 2006 to 2008 global food price surges, on domestic income distribution in Argentina. The specific purpose of this study was to examine the hypothesis that the surges in the 2006 to 2008 international food prices for corn (maize), rice, soybean, and wheat, impacted …
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Househood demand for comodities in Zambia: an Emperical assessment in context of food insecurity
It is known that Zambia's population has high food poverty and about 82% of the population in most parts of the country are said to be vulnerable to food insecurity (MoFNP, 2006). The extent of food poverty is particularly more prevalent in rural areas and among the poor people. The high food …
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Bringing Urban Agriculture to the University of Cincinnati
<p>Food and shelter are two of the most fundamental aspects of daily human life. With the global population growing at an exponential rate and the distribution of that population rapidly shifting to urban centers these basic needs are becoming more pressing. The paradigm of rural, monoculture …
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Economic shocks, poverty and household food insecurity in urban Zambia: an ethnographic account of Chingola
Research on poverty and food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa has tended to focus on rural households and urban areas known to have concentrations of low-income households. However, consequences and effects of the recent global economic crisis such as retrenchment coupled with increasing food and …
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Economic structural adjustment programmes in the Southern African development community : an analysis of impact and policy considerations with special reference to Zambia and Zimbabwe
… and health standards, ever-skyrocketing food prices, rents, taxes, mass exodus of qualified human resources to greener pastures, big debts, inflation and labour strikes in Zimbabwe and Zambia.
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The contribution of small farms and commercial large farms to the food security of Trinidad and Tobago
… farms coexist to contribute to the country's food security. Food security is defined as when all persons can access sufficient and nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life, and have enough income to access that food in a safe, socially acceptable way. This research uses …
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Essays on international economics
… 3, we analyze the impacts of climate change on food prices across regions and income groups, looking into Brazilian data. As climate change alters comparative advantages in food production across goods and over space, existing trade frictions impede effective adaptation through sourcing …
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Three essays on machine learning and food security
… the interactions between weather shocks, food prices, food policy and food security. Food insecurity has resurfaced to be a vital issue in the past two decades in sub-Saharan Africa. Income and price shocks that endanger food security could from different aspects, including drought, flood, …
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Assessing the contribution of household food production to food security and sovereignty at Nkomazi Local Municipality, Mpumalanga Province in South Africa
Nationally South Africa is assumed to be food secured, whilst many people at household level still face hunger and poverty daily. This has been exacerbated by population growth and food prices that continue to increase, household therefore need to find means to survive. Hence the study aims to …
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Fresh Squeezed: The Dilemma of Local Food Production Along Colorado's Front Range Urban Corridor
… urban/agricultural battlefield. The history of food production and urbanization in this area is similar to many regions throughout the western United States. Originally an extraction based economy, Colorado later became agriculturally/pastorally based, and more recently became a service-based, …
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Three essays on weather shocks, nutrition and forests
… for high rates of undernutrition within food-producing households. In the first essay, using data from Malawi, I find that households allocate labor away from agriculture to forests in the event of a weather shock and that access to forests offsets the negative effect of weather shocks on …
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Implementation of a Fruit and Vegetable Voucher Program in San Francisco
… households in the United States struggle with food insecurity, meaning they do not have sufficient access to food that meets their dietary needs for an active and healthy life. The issue of food insecurity in cities like San Francisco, California is exacerbated by the high cost of living and …
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Essays on Farm Household Decision-Making: Evidence from Vietnam
… to investigate the effects of the 2007-08 global food crisis on the investment, saving and consumption decisions of household producers by using the panel data of the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey (VHLSS), covering 2006 and 2008. The results show that the high food prices had a positive …
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Spatial variation of the food price index in Canada's Northwest Territories: a ridge regression analysis
… investigates the spatial variation in the 1985 Food Price Index (FPI) at destinations in the Northwest Territories (NWT). It follows a conceptual model that assumes the FPI varies directly with the accessibility of a given northern destination to the metropolitan South. Accessibility has been …
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Irrigationalism – the politics and ideology of irrigation development in the Nam Songkhram Basin, Northeast Thailand
… as demographics, changing diets, international food prices, globalization, urbanization, national food and energy policies, and increasingly, climate change. Such standard drivers of change tend to dominate mainstream water resources development discourse, embedded in instrumental and functional …
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