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Women, food security and agriculture in a global marketplace: A significant shift
R. Mehra;M. Hill Rojas / International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2008
New directions in development assistance and agricultural investments must recognize and support women's involvement in the full agricultural value chain from production to processing to marketing....
Discrimination and food rights
UN Human Rights Council, 2010
This study on discrimination in the context of the right to food was produced for the fourth session of the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council held in February 2010. The study c...
Will India be compelled to import dairy products in the near future?
V.P. Gandhi;Z. Zhou / AgEcon Search, 2010
With a large population and recent growth in consumer income, India’s demand for food has increased. This study examines the demand for livestock products by Indian consumers, and discusses i...
Malawian farmers'  willingness to allocate funds for input purchase at harvest time
S.T. Holden (ed);R. Lunduka (ed) / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2011
Malawi has implemented a large-scale agricultural input subsidy program since 2005 after a period with severe food shortages and the program has contributed to increased food availability, higher real...
Monitoring price movements during crucial periods of the year to forecast grain crisis in West Africa
C. Araujo;C. Araujo-Bonjean;S. Brunelin / AgEcon Search, 2011
Countries located in the Sahel region of Africa are repeatedly confronted by episodes of rapid increase in grain prices resulting in food crises. This paper aims at exploiting grain price data to d...
Improving markets for fresh food retail in India
N. Singla;S. Singh;P.K. Dhindsa / AgEcon Search, 2011
Linking primary producers with global and national markets through fresh food retail chains is seen as one of the emerging agricultural marketing practices in India to improve small producer’...
Was reducing consumption the only coping mechanism Indian households employed under import competition?
S. Tandon;M. Landes / AgEcon Search, 2011
In the past two decades, India has enacted a number of policies, including a dramatic trade liberalisation, that in part aim to reduce the incidence of both poverty and food insecurity. This study ...
Localised solutions are essential in global land markets
T.W. Hertel / AgEcon Search, 2010
The number of people which the world must feed is expected to increase by 50% during the first half of this century, but will the world’s agricultural resource base be up to the task of meeti...
A huge market potential for organic fruits exists in Ghana
V. Owusu;M.A. Owusu / AgEcon Search, 2010
Organic products are considered worldwide as superior in quality to conventionally produced products in terms of health and environmental benefits. This paper examines the market potential for fresh o...
Markets are well integrated during food –maize shortages in Malawi; trading infrastructure is not sufficiently developed?
Z. Wouter / AgEcon Search, 2010
A higher degree of market integration entails smooth trade flows from surplus areas to deficit areas, less price volatility, and higher welfare. This paper investigates measurement of market integr...

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