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| Wehrheim, Peter; Schoeller-Schletter, Anja; Martius, Christopher; Djanibekov, Nodir; Bobojonov, Ihtiyor; Rudenko, Inna; Lamers, John P.A.; Muller, Marc; Schieder, Tina; Cai, Ximing; Hirsch, Darya; Wall, Caleb. |
| Decades of Soviet rule have left a heritage of environmental and social problems in Central Asia. The demise of an entire ecosystem at unprecedented pace, the "Aral Sea Syndrome", is the most prominent of the undesired outcomes of the focus on agricultural production that has dominated land and resource use and continues till today. The international outcry over this ecological crisis has delegated other – and maybe more urgent – problems to a second pane. Rural livelihoods are rapidly deteriorating, unemployment is high, and rural poverty widespread. Ecological aspects, although strongly affecting everyday life in rural areas – such as water and soil salinity and environmental pollution – are not the fore most concern to the local population, as the... |
| Tipo: Book |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Crop Production/Industries; Industrial Organization; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; International Relations/Trade; Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/92320 |
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| Wehrheim, Peter; Wiesmann, Doris M.. |
| This article explores the characteristics of food security in the context of economies in transition. These special characteristics derive from the “legacies” of socialist systems, both economy-wide ones and others specific to the agriculture and the food sector. Food insecurity in transition countries is considered predominantly “transitory”, while social safety nets dating back to the socialist years provide some cushion. Market failures and other institutional constraints are prevalent, inhibiting the process towards improvement of the food security situation. Conflict takes a heavy toll in terms of hunger and malnutrition in economies in transition and macro level factors are at work to determine food security outcomes. At the same time, socialist... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Poverty; Malnutrition; Transition countries; Agriculture; Agricultural policy; Safety nets; Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/112604 |
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| Wehrheim, Peter; Wiesmann, Doris M.. |
| Most methodological materials and analyses of food security pertain to the classical developing countries of the world. In this paper we discuss the question what pattern of food insecurity has developed across the transition countries? And, are there specific characteristics of food insecurity in the transition economies which can be attributed to the legacy of the socialist era? We argue that various legacies from the socialist system are decisive for today's economic and social environment in which food insecurity in these countries arises and has to be tackled. We discuss how the standard conceptual framework for the analysis of food security has to be adapted to take the specific characteristics of transition countries into account. Furthermore, we... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18760 |
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| Lohlein, Daniela; Jutting, Johannes Paul; Wehrheim, Peter. |
| The objective of the paper is to identify the determinants of access to health care in rural Russia. We started out with the observation that the transition process has affected the provision of social services in the Russian Federation in general, and in rural areas in particular, owing to the overlap with agricultural reforms. Based on this observation we asked how the reduced role of the state and the concomitant decentralization of policy making has affected access of the rural populace to social services. A review of the available literature on this topic resulted in the formulation of the following three hypotheses. Firstly, that income is a determinant of access to health care. Secondly, that informal payments play an important role in determining... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Russia; Transition process; Public goods; Health care; Rural development; Health Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24843 |
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| Muller, Marc; Wehrheim, Peter. |
| This paper provides an overview of the most recent developments on Russian cereal markets. A review of annual statistics on domestic production, trade, consumption, and storage of cereals reveals that the improvement in Russia’s net trade position cannot only be explained by increased productivity of grain producers. Exhausted storage capacities and lowered real trade costs after the devaluation of the Russian rouble in 1998 seem to have contributed to these developments. A computable general equilibrium model for Russia based on 1999 data was used for analyzing various economic developments and policy changes. The model simulations show that market protection in the short run, when the flexibility of labor and capital is restricted, may benefit Russian... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Russia; Agriculture; Cereals; Trade; General Equilibrium Analysis; Crop Production/Industries; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/97439 |
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