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Global food policy report 2024: Food systems for healthy diets and nutrition

Food systems and diets underpin many critical challenges to public health and environmental sustainability, including malnutrition, noncommunicable diseases, and climate change, but sustainable healthy diets have the unique potential to reshape the ...
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Extended Results from the International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT version 3.2.1) for Sulser et al (2015)

, 2015
Policy makers, analysts, and civil society face increasing challenges to reducing hunger and improving food security in a sustainable way. Modeling alternative future scenarios and assessing their outcomes can help inform their choices. The International
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Effects of Environmental and Health Information on Willingness to Pay for Local and Organic Foods in Taiwan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang, Edward C. Jaenicke, Martina Vecchi, Sheng‐Jang Sheu   +3 more
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Growth of Omnichannel Grocery Retailing and Food Prices

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the effects of the growth of omnichannel grocery retailing on food prices. We first develop a conceptual model of consumer choice and retailer pricing that allows us to evaluate changes in equilibrium prices, quantities, and profits with online channel growth and alternative pricing strategies.
Xiangwen Kong, Metin Çakır, Qingxiao Li   +2 more
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Highlights of recent IFPRI food policy research for the European Commission 2014: Reducing poverty and hunger through food policy research

In the wake of the food crises of the early 1970s and the resulting World Food Conference of 1974, a group of innovators realized that food security depends not only on crop production but also on the policies that affect food systems, from farm to table.
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan, Orkhan Sariyev, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Manfred Zeller   +3 more
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THREATS TO FOOD SECURITY AND COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY

Ekonomika Poljoprivrede (1979), 2012
The aim of this article is presented threats to food security in the context of the CAP after 2013. The main threats to food security are (1) world population growth, (2) the increase demand for food, (3) food price, (4) the disappearance of the variety
Mariola Kwasek
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Addition of beans flour and Mukene (Rastrineobola argentea) powder improves the nutritional, sensory and functional properties of maize flour for porridge

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Malnutrition is a burden among young children in Uganda due to inadequate intake of the required nutrients. Inadequate nutrient intake is partly caused by the use of plant based foods to wean infants.
Gaston Ampek Tumuhimbise, Gerald Tumwine, Agnes Nabubuya, Boniface Mutatina, Atucungwiire Rwebiita, Robert Basaza   +5 more
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Determinants of Profitability Among Agricultural Equipment Fabricators in Oyo State, Nigeria

Journal of Agricultural Extension
The study examined enterprise profitability among agricultural equipment fabricators. It was conducted in Oyo State, Nigeria using a multistage sampling procedure to select the 48 respondents from whom data were collected using a structured questionnaire.
Oyelami, Benjamin Olusegun , Ogunbayo, Iredele, Enya, Effa , Aburime, Peace, yegbile, Adetola, Adekoya, Adegbenga, Akano, Oreoluwa , Osadebamwen, Uyiosa Genesis, Olorunkoya, Olubusayo   +8 more
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Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators: 2019 Global Food Policy Report Annex Table 1

, 2018
Policymakers recognize that increased investment in agricultural research is key to increasing agricultural productivity. Despite this, many low- and middle-income countries struggle with capacity and funding constraints in their agricultural ...
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