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Is There a Link Between Poverty and Food Security?
Social Indicators Research, 2015This paper addresses the gap in economic theory underlying the multidimensional concept of food security and observed data by deriving a composite food security index using the latent class model. The link between poverty and food security is then examined using the new food security index and the robustness of the link is compared with two ...
Viet Ngu Hoang, Renuka Mahadevan
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2016
Poverty and malnutrition in the rural areas of Mizoram state is a common phenomenon. Our study shows that about 33 % population lives below poverty line and 17 % population suffers from chronic poverty. As agrarian practices—agricultural and livestock farming—are the main occupation of the rural people and output from it insufficient to carry ...
Vishwambhar Prasad Sati +1 more
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Poverty and malnutrition in the rural areas of Mizoram state is a common phenomenon. Our study shows that about 33 % population lives below poverty line and 17 % population suffers from chronic poverty. As agrarian practices—agricultural and livestock farming—are the main occupation of the rural people and output from it insufficient to carry ...
Vishwambhar Prasad Sati +1 more
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2012
Different organisations, authors and researchers have defined food security differently. In general, the food security refers to availability and affordability of food. An individual or a household is said to be secure in food when they have access to sufficient and quality food at all times: have physical and economic access to enough safe and ...
Motiur Rahman +2 more
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Different organisations, authors and researchers have defined food security differently. In general, the food security refers to availability and affordability of food. An individual or a household is said to be secure in food when they have access to sufficient and quality food at all times: have physical and economic access to enough safe and ...
Motiur Rahman +2 more
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The Impact of Food Prices on Poverty and Food Security
Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2016Recent food price fluctuations have sparked renewed interest in the impact of food prices on poverty and food security. This paper reviews the literature and analyzes why different authors often reach different conclusions regarding the welfare impacts of food price changes.
Derek D. Headey, William J. Martin
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COVID-19 and Global Poverty and Food Security
Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2022The impacts of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on food systems, poverty, and nutrition have been caused by generalized economic recession and disruptions in agrifood supply chains. This article reviews a growing empirical literature assessing those impacts.
Rob Vos, John McDermott, Johan Swinnen
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Poverty, Food Security, and Nutrition
2017The poor who tend not to benefit from rapid agricultural growth represent a difficult context for poverty reduction. There are substantial geographic areas that have a high proportion of their population in poverty but which are not suitable for the application of the improved technologies that drive agricultural income growth and its transfer to the ...
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Trade liberalization, poverty, and food security in India: [PDF]
, 2008 This paper attempts to assess the impact of trade liberalization on growth, poverty, and food security in India with the help of a national level computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. It shows that GDP growth and income poverty reduction that might occur following trade liberalization need not necessarily result in an improvement in the food ...
Manoj Panda, A. Ganesh-Kumar
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Poverty and Food Security in Gujarat, India [PDF]
The European Journal of Development Research, 2010 This article analyses poverty, in the light of the prevailing methodological and definitional debates, in Gujarat, one of the fastest growing states in India. We examine the divergence between the official and nutrition-based poverty lines (PLs) and analyse its possible causes.
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Poverty and Food Security in India [PDF]
, 2013 This paper is an attempt to analyze the impact of two of India's largest food security interventions - the Public Distribution System (PDS) and the Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDM) - on poverty outcomes and on nutritional intake. This paper offers a simple methodology to take into account the impact of food-based transfers by including the implicit transfers ...
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