Food Inflation Poverty And Urbanization

Author : Derek D. Headey
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Food inflation, poverty, and urbanization written by Derek D. Headey and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2022-09-02 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a long secular decline in the 20th century, food prices spiked sharply in 2007-08, 2010-11 and again in 2021-22. While often termed “food crises”, economists disagree on whether rising food prices increase or decrease poverty: poor people have high food expenditure shares but also produce and sell food, and higher food prices trigger food supply responses and growth in rural wages. One limitation of previous econometric studies is their focus on medium-run multi-year impacts, even though simulation analyses typically find negative impacts in the short run. In this study we therefore construct and analyze a novel short run panel of annual poverty and food price data for 33 middle income countries (MICs) over 2000-2019. Using standard panel data techniques, we find that increases in the real price of food predict reductions in $3.20/day poverty in less urbanized countries but increases in poverty in the most urbanized MICs.

Author : Derek Headey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Food Inflation, Poverty, and Urbanization written by Derek Headey and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marc J. Cohen
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 1843697394
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Food Price Crisis and Urban Food (in)security written by Marc J. Cohen and published by IIED. This book was released on 2009 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maros Ivanic
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book implications of higher global food prices for poverty in low-income countries written by Maros Ivanic and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: In many poor countries, the recent increases in prices of staple foods raise the real incomes of those selling food, many of whom are relatively poor, while hurting net food consumers, many of whom are also relatively poor. The impacts on poverty will certainly be very diverse, but the average impact on poverty depends upon the balance between these two effects, and can only be determined by looking at real-world data. Results using household data for ten observations on nine low-income countries show that the short-run impacts of higher staple food prices on poverty differ considerably by commodity and by country, but, that poverty increases are much more frequent, and larger, than poverty reductions. The recent large increases in food prices appear likely to raise overall poverty in low income countries substantially.

Author : Jesper Stage
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 1843697386
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Is Urbanization Contributing to Higher Food Prices? written by Jesper Stage and published by IIED. This book was released on 2009 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent spike in food prices has led to a renewal of interest in agricultural issues and in the long-term drivers of food prices. Urbanization has been mentioned as one possible cause of higher food prices. In this paper we examine some of the links through which urbanization is considered to be contributing to higher food prices and conclude that in most cases urbanization is being conflated with other long-term processes, such as economic growth, population growth and environmental degradation, which can more fruitfully be seen as related but separate processes. We discuss long- and-short term factors affecting food prices, and conclude that the one important way in which urbanization in poor countries may affect food prices, at least potentially, is that it increases the number of households who depend on commercial food supplies, rather than own production, as their main source and hence are likely to hoard food if they fear future price increases. The best policy option for managing this is larger food reserves. Attempts to curb urbanization, on the other hand, would be ill advised.

Author : Mr.James P Walsh
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1475533306
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inflation and Income Inequality written by Mr.James P Walsh and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an extensive literature noting that high inflation can add to income inequality, and a parallel literature assessing the effect of rising food prices on the poor. This paper attempts to combine these strands by dividing inflation into food and nonfood inflation and assessing whether food inflation affects income inequality differently from nonfood inflation. In an international sample and a sample of Chinese provinces, nonfood inflation exacerbates income inequality while the role of food inflation is more mixed. In a sample of Indian states broken down into urban and rural areas, we find that nonfood inflation adds to income inequality in both areas, while food inflation has a neutral to positive effect on income inequality in rural areas, providing support for the theory that rural wages may respond elastically to food prices.

Author : Jane Battersby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138726758
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities written by Jane Battersby and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to address urban poverty in Africa, and particularly in smaller cities, by examining linkages between poverty, urban food systems and local governance.

Author : Headey, Derek D.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Food inflation and child undernutrition in low and middle income countries written by Headey, Derek D. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 21st Century has been marked by increased volatility in food prices, with global price spikes in 2007-08, 2010-11, and again in 2021-22. The impact of food inflation on the risk of child undernutrition is not well understood, however. This study explores the potential impacts of food inflation on wasting and stunting among 1.27 million pre-school children from 44 developing countries. On average, a 5 percent increase in the real price of food increases the risk of wasting by 9 percent and severe wasting by 14 percent. These risks apply to young infants, suggesting a prenatal pathway, as well as to older children who typically experience a deterioration in diet quality in the wake of food inflation. Male children and children from poor and rural landless households are more severely impacted. Food inflation during pregnancy and the first year after birth also increases the risk of stunting for children 2-5 years of age. This evidence provides a strong rationale for interventions to prevent food inflation and mitigate its impacts on vulnerable children and their mothers.

Author : Michele Ver Ploeg
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437921345
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food: Measuring and Understanding Food Deserts and Their Consequences written by Michele Ver Ploeg and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 directed the U.S. Dept. of Agr. to conduct a 1-year study to assess the extent of areas with limited access to affordable and nutritious food, identify characteristics and causes of such areas, consider how limited access affects local populations, and outline recommend. to address the problem. This report presents the findings of the study, which include results from two conferences of national and internat. authorities on food deserts and a set of research studies. It also includes reviews of existing literature, a national-level assessment of access to large grocery stores and supermarkets, analysis of the economic and public health effects of limited access, and a discussion of existing policy interventions. Illus.

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309151953
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mitigating the Nutritional Impacts of the Global Food Price Crisis written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2007 and 2008, the world witnessed a dramatic increase in food prices. The global financial crisis that began in 2008 compounded the burden of high food prices, exacerbating the problems of hunger and malnutrition in developing countries. The tandem food price and economic crises struck amidst the massive, chronic problem of hunger and undernutrition in developing countries. National governments and international actors have taken a variety of steps to mitigate the negative effects of increased food prices on particular groups. The recent abrupt increase in food prices, in tandem with the current global economic crisis, threatens progress already made in these areas, and could inhibit future efforts. The Institute of Medicine held a workshop, summarized in this volume, to describe the dynamic technological, agricultural, and economic issues contributing to the food price increases of 2007 and 2008 and their impacts on health and nutrition in resource-poor regions. The compounding effects of the current global economic downturn on nutrition motivated additional discussions on these dual crises, their impacts on the nutritional status of vulnerable populations, and opportunities to mitigate their negative nutritional effects.