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| The Economic Research Service Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program (FANRP) offers a Small Grants Program designed to stimulate new and innovative research on food assistance and nutrition issues and to broaden the participation of social science scholars in these issues. ERS created partnerships with five academic institutions and research institutes in administering the program. This report presents a summary of the research findings from the first set of small grants, which were awarded in the summer and fall of 1998. |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food assistance; Nutrition; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/33821 |
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| Simler, Kenneth R.. |
| For effective decision-making, policymakers and program managers often need detailed information about the welfare of the population, including knowledge about which specific areas are most affected by poverty and undernutrition. Household sample surveys are an important source of information, yet because the typical sample size is only a few thousand observations, the information is only useful for inferences at high levels of aggregation, such as the nation or large regional units. In contrast, data sources with wider coverage, such as national censuses, rarely capture detailed information on welfare levels. Recently small-area estimation techniques have been applied to the study of poverty to produce estimates of poverty, or poverty maps, for small... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Nutrition mapping; Malnutrition; Anthropometry; Small area estimation; Tanzania; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55899 |
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| Mason, Nicole M.; Jayne, Thomas S.; Donovan, Cynthia; Chapoto, Antony. |
| The world food and financial crises threaten to undermine the real incomes of urban consumers in eastern and southern Africa. This study investigates patterns in staple food prices, wage rates, and marketing margins for urban consumers in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia between 1993 and 2009. There is high correlation among wage rate series for various government and private sector categories. We find that average formal sector wages rose at a faster rate than retail maize meal and bread prices in urban Kenya and Zambia between the mid-1990s and 2007. Although the 2007/08 food price crisis partially reversed this trend, the quantities of staple foods affordable per daily wage in urban Kenya and Zambia during the 2008/09 marketing season were still... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Africa; Agriculture; Food security; Prices; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Security and Poverty; Labor and Human Capital; Marketing; Q11. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53451 |
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| Zahrnt, Valentin. |
| Policy-makers are quarrelling about the future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). France intends to conclude a CAP reform during its 2008 EU Presidency before a thorough Budget Review is due in 2009 that will revise CAP spending. The Doha Round of WTO negotiations might necessitate further decisions on agricultural tariff cuts at any time. This Policy Brief provides recommendations for agricultural policy reform in the EU. It argues, first, that all measures that distort market prices and production should be abolished. This includes production quotas, land set-asides, storage aids, export refunds, output payments, and area payments. Second, the Single Farm Payment (SFP), which provides income support to farmers independently of their current... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: CAP; EU; Multifunctionality; Subsidies; Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Security and Poverty; Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/47838 |
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| Tschirley, David L.; Staatz, John M.; Donovan, Cynthia. |
| When an emergency occurs, agencies must make quick decisions on how to help people facing severe food insecurity. This paper addresses the challenges of designing appropriate responses that are linked to identified needs of affected households and individuals. The primary goal of any response is to save lives now and protect the food security of households and individuals now and in the future. However, instrumental goals and the specific means of achieving them are varied, and must be responsive to the setting in which the emergency occurs. The paper conceives the costs and benefits of a response as the product of how efficiently a resource is delivered (resource transfer efficiency) and the effectiveness of the resource and its mode of delivery in... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Africa; Food security; Food policy; Food aid; Emergency response; Food Security and Poverty; Q18. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54561 |
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| Benson, Todd. |
| Poverty mapping applies models of household welfare developed from detailed household consumption and expenditure surveys to the extensive but less detailed data from national censuses. A poverty map for Malawi, developed by drawing upon information from the 1997–98 Malawi Integrated Household Survey with the 1998 Malawi Population and Housing Census, provides aggregate estimates of household welfare and poverty at a highly disaggregated level—down to the level of local government wards. Given the close association between welfare and food security in most Malawi households, such a detailed poverty map can be of considerable value to development and relief organizations, as they plan and target activities to improve the ability of poor households to cope... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Poverty mapping; Food security; Malawi; Food relief; Targeting; Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55897 |
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| Sawada, Yasuyuki; Shoji, Masahiro; Sugawara, Shinya; Shinkai, Naoko. |
| Although it is known that access to physical infrastructure enhances household welfare, there are hardly any micro-econometric studies that analyze the role of infrastructure in mitigating chronic and transient poverty. This paper aims to bridge this gap in the existing literature by evaluating the impact of a large-scale irrigation project implemented in Sri Lanka. We extend the seasonal consumption smoothing model of Paxson (1993) by introducing endogenous credit constraints. We collected unique household-level monthly panel data over a period of two years. According to the point estimates, with irrigation accessibility, per capita food and non-food consumption expenditures increase by around 20% and 45%, respectively, on average, and the probability... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Poverty Reduction; Role of Infrastructure; Monthly Panel Data; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Risk and Uncertainty; O16. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51461 |
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