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    Food price differences across Indian states: patterns and determinants

    Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2016
    The paper examines food price differences across Indian states during 2004-2014 using food consumer prices from household surveys and wholesale/retail prices for selected goods. At the individual product level there are large price differences across states, with prices doubling or trebling across India for a typical case, but with considerable variation across products.
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    Revisiting RP's Hybrid Rice Program

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2005
    The United Nations General Assembly declared 2004 the International Year of the Rice (IYR). The IYR is a venue to promote improved production and development of sustainable rice-based systems that will contribute to environmental conservation and a better life for present and future generations.
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    Food policy: Its role in price stability and food security

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1997
    Due to the increase in prices of basic agricultural commodities in 1995, food price stability and food security emerged as a major policy concern in the Philippines. This paper argues that the sharp increases in prices of rice; largely the choice and management of policy instrument have caused corn and sugar.
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    Common futures: India and Africa in partnership

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    Africa with its 54 countries is over ten times the size of India but has roughly the same population -- just over one billion people. The demographic structures are also very similar. In India more than fifty percent of the population is below the age of twenty five and in most African states, half or more of thepopulation is under twenty five years of age.
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    Food outlook: biannual report on global food markets: FAO/UNDP

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2013
    Food commodity markets are set to be more balanced in 2013/14, in particular cereals. The global food import bill is forecast to reach USD 1.09 trillion in 2013, 13 percent below the record of 2011 but close to the 2012 estimate, as higher bills for fish and livestock products are anticipated to offset lower expenditures on most other commodities, especially sugar.
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    Revisiting the global food crisis: magnitude, causes, impact and policy options

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2010
    The brief period of the 21st century has been marked by a drastic intensification of the global food crisis. The phenomenal surge in fuel and food prices followed by the on-going economic crisis have worked in tandem to increasingly deprive the poor across the world, particularly in the Global South, from their fundamental right to food.
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    Rice self-sufficiency: is it feasible?

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012
    Rice self-sufficiency has long captivated public imagination in the Philippines. This Policy Note assesses whether the rice self-sufficiency target can be attained and sustained at reasonable cost. The assessment is based on two approaches: first is comparison with past trends; second is comparison with projections of demand and supply.
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    Policy coordination for food security: the case of the ASEAN Rice Trade Forum

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012
    Rice is the most important staple crop in Asia. Rice is regarded not merely as a source of food and livelihood, but also a political commodity and barometer of state legitimacy. Intervention in rice markets is therefore the status quo.
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    Food for thought: exploring food security in the Pacific

    Pacific Institute of Public Policy, 2011
    The Pacific faces many challenges in terms food availability and affordability. This paper investigates the current status of food systems in the Pacific and looks at the changes required for achieving a food secure future.The document points that:
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    The differentiated effects of food price spikes on poverty in Uganda

    AgEcon Search, 2012
    The price spike of 2006-08 set off alarm bells that millions of poor households would find themselves pushed below the poverty line or pushed further below it as a result of these higher prices.

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