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Investigating Food Self-Sufficiency Challenges in Haiti

2011
Agriculture is the primary activity for about one million (1,000,000) small farm households holding an average of 1.5 hectares under various land tenure systems. In the past two decades, agricultural production growth has stagnated and food imports have escalated. Imported rice has virtually replaced domestically produced and preferred rice.
Jolly, C. M., Bayard, Budry, Nguyen, G., Jolly, C. M., Bayard, Budry, Nguyen, G.   +5 more
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India—A Drive Towards Self‐Sufficiency in Food Grains

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1978
Achievement of self-sufficiency in food grains has been one of the principal objectives of economic development in India.1 Though government-sponsored efforts for increasing production of food grains started under the Grow More Food Campaign in 1943, to meet the shortage of food caused by the stoppage of imports of rice from Burma, self-sufficiency as ...
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Politics and policies of food self-sufficiency in Tanzania

Social Science & Medicine, 1986
Since independence, Tanzania has stated her food production goals in many national declarations and indicated how the policies were to be met. Implementation of policies has not produced more food because the political ends were not consistent with economic directions. This paper discusses both.
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ASSESSING THE SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF FOOD STAMP LEAVERS

2002
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 dramatically altered the welfare system. Among the changes: work-related requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs) and tighter limitations on their participation in the Food Stamp Program.
Dagata, Elizabeth, Dagata, Elizabeth
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About food self sufficiency

1986
La problematique de la notion d'autosuffisance alimentaire se definit par rapport a des notions voisines: autarcie, securite alimentaire, lutte contre le deficit alimentaire. L'urgence de la question alimentaire en Afrique oblige a considerer le developpement du secteur agroalimentaire comme une priorite.
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Uncertainty in China's food self-sufficiency: A dynamic system assessment

Sustainable Production and Consumption, 2023
Xiaobin Jin, Xiaoxiao Xu
exaly  

Assessing food self-sufficiency of selected European Functional Urban Areas vs metropolitan areas

Landscape and Urban Planning, 2022
Marta Sylla, José Luis Vicente-Vicente
exaly  

Regional self-sufficiency: A multi-dimensional analysis relating agricultural production and consumption in the European Union

Sustainable Production and Consumption, 2022
Lisa Kaufmann, Andreas Mayer, Sarah Matej   +2 more
exaly  

Japan in the International Food Regimes: Understanding Japanese Food Self-Sufficiency Decline

2017
Japan’s food self-sufficiency rate was 79% in 1960, but it fell down rapidly and reached 39% in 2011, the lowest among major industrialized countries. The mechanisms of this decline have been mostly explained as the result of the drastic change of dietary habits under a rapid economic growth, since the 1960s: as the economy grew steadily, the ...
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Food and electricity self-sufficiency trade-offs in Reunion Island: Modelling land-use change scenarios with stakeholders

Land Use Policy, 2023
Valentin Russeil
exaly