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Poverty and food security in rural Bangladesh

open access: yesPoverty and food security in rural Bangladesh
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Trade liberalization, poverty, and food security in India: [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Food Security and Poverty

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 Food Security

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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COVID-19 and Global Poverty and Food Security

Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2022
The 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

2017
The 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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Poverty and Food Security in Gujarat, India [PDF]

open access: possibleThe 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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Productivity, Poverty Alleviation, and Food Security

1998
Most observers agree that, barring catastrophe, the global population will number more than 8 billion by 2025. There is, however, less agreement about the consequences for food security. Some, for example, Brown and Kane of the World Watch Institute (Brown and Kane, 1994), argue that there will be widespread shortages of foodstuffs, accompanied by ...
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