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  Understanding the determinants of structural change in world food markets

  Global Trade Analysis Project, 1998

  Uses a modified version of the GTAP model to analyze the relative role of different forces underlying the compositional changes in world agriculture and food trade in the last 15 years. Attempts to isolate the effects of supply and demand factors as well as changes in transportation costs and trade policy.
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  Famine in North Korea: causes and cures

  Institute for International Economics, USA, 1999

  Paper starts from incomplete data ridden with gross measurement errors to construct the underlying data base for a computable general equilibrium model (CGE) of the North Korean economy using cross-entropy estimation techniques. This model incorporates fragmentary information in a rigorous way and allows authors to examine the implications of a number of alternative scenarios.
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  Agriculture, food and nutrition for Africa: A resource book for teachers of agriculture

  Food and Nutrition Division, FAO, 1997

  Resource book for use in sub-Saharan Africa by teachers of agriculture who wish to introduce into their training programmes aspects of the food chain that are related to food consumption and to nutrition. Designed for use by trainers in preparing their teaching material, it is not intended for direct use by students.
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  Failed Magic or Social Context?: Market Liberalization and the Rural Poor in Malawi

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1996

  One of the key questions in the debates swirling around structural adjustment programs in Africa is their effects on the poor. Have these programs "benefited ... the rural poor disproportionately", as concluded in Adjustment in Africa (World Bank 1994)? The answer for rural families studied over a period of years in Malawi is no.
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  Can China feed itself?: A System for Evaluation of Policy Options

  International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 1999

  Decision-support application for planners and policymakers.
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  Concept of a food security policy

  European Food Security Network / Réseau Européen de Sécurité Alimentaire, 1999

  The paper defines a concept for a food security framework policy encompassing all related sector policies.First, this concerns the structural food security policies and its elements: macroeconomic policy: monetary policies, fiscal deficits, exchange rates, balance of paymentsfood security policy – supply side: agricultural policy (support policies to the development of the domestic
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  Validating operational food insecurity indicators against a dynamic benchmark: evidence from Mali

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  This article attempts to validate operational food insecurity indicators against a dynamic benchmark, using evidence from Mali.The article suggests that indicators of household food insecurity are typically static and thus ignore a key dimension of food insecurity.
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  The environmental and social impacts of economic liberalization on corn production in Mexico

  Oxfam, 2001

  Examines Mexico’s effort to liberalise and “modernise” its agricultural sector, and in particular its domestic production of corn.Conclusions:liberalisation has failed to achieve the environmental and social improvements it promised.
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  Evaluation of EC food aid, food security policy, food aid management and programmes in support of food security

  European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 2000

  This reports on an evaluation of EC food aid, food security policy, and food aid management.Summary of main findings:the Regulation stipulates the policy of the European Commission as far as it concerns its food aid (other than for humanitarian and emergency reasons) and the Food Security Programme. This policy is defined within the international policy environment on food security.
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  Trends in real food prices in six sub-Saharan African countries

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996

  The objectives of this research were to assess the direction and magnitude of food prices since the implementation of food sector policy reforms, to identify the major factors affecting such changes, and to assess the resulting effects of food system reforms on household-level food security in East Africa, Southern Africa, and West Africa.The report highlights several conclusions: grain and gra

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