Food Prices And Rural Poverty

Author : Centre for Economic Policy Research
Publisher : CEPR
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781907142130

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Food Prices and Rural Poverty by Centre for Economic Policy Research Pdf

The impact of price developments on world food markets on poor households in developing countries is an important policy question. Who gains and who loses from agricultural commodity price changes depends on the specific circumstances of households, and, at the level of nations, on the structure of production and trade. The contributions to this volume review trends in international prices and trade patterns of key food commodities, and assess the incidence of food price changes in a number of developing countries using household level data on sources of incomes and consumption patterns.

Author : Headey, Derek D.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Food prices and poverty reduction in the long run by Headey, Derek D. Pdf

Standard microeconomic methods consistently suggest that, in the short run, higher food prices increase poverty in developing countries. In contrast, macroeconomic models that allow for an agricultural supply response and consequent wage adjustments suggest that the poor ultimately benefit from higher food prices. In this paper we use international data to systematically test the relationship between changes in domestic food prices and changes in poverty. We find robust evidence that in the long run (one to five years) higher food prices reduce poverty and inequality. The magnitudes of these effects vary across specifications and are not precisely estimated, but they are large enough to suggest that the recent increase in global food prices has significantly accelerated the rate of global poverty reduction.

Author : Marc J. Cohen,Melinda Smale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317979074

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Global Food-Price Shocks and Poor People by Marc J. Cohen,Melinda Smale Pdf

This book examines the effects of high and volatile food prices during 2007-08 on low-income farmers and consumers in developing, transition, and industrialized countries. Previous studies of this crisis have mostly used models to estimate the likely impacts. This volume includes actual evidence from the field as to how higher prices affected access to food and farm income among poor people. In addition to country and regional case studies, the book presents discussions of cross-cutting themes, including gender, risk management, violence, the importance of subsistence farming as a coping strategy, and the role of governments and markets in addressing higher prices. With 2011 witnessing an unprecedentedly high level of food prices, the findings and policy recommendations presented here should prove useful to both scholars and policy makers in understanding the causes and consequences, as well as the policies needed to ensure food security in light of the skyrocketing cost of food. This book was published as a special double issue of Development in Practice.

Author : Maros Ivanic
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Food commodities
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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implications of higher global food prices for poverty in low-income countries by Maros Ivanic Pdf

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 : Fabrizio Bresciani,Alberto Valdés
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9251055343

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Beyond Food Production by Fabrizio Bresciani,Alberto Valdés Pdf

The importance of agricultural growth to poverty reduction is well known, but the specific channels through which the poor can take advantage of growth require further research. Bresciani and Valdâs investigate four important channels: rural labour markets, farm incomes, food prices, and linkages to other economic sectors. Part 1 looks at the synthesis and theoretical background and part 2 is country case studies

Author : Marcel Fafchamps
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 925104371X

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Rural Poverty, Risk and Development by Marcel Fafchamps Pdf

All men and women are subject to risk: illness, accident, death. Some shocks affect their ability to feed and support themselves properly, either temporarily: unemployment, crop failure, and loss of property; or permanently: disability, and skill obsolescence.This report summarises what is known and also what is not known about the sources of risk faced by the rural poor and their coping strategies. It examines the impact of risk and risk-coping strategies on development and the way in which governments and international organisations can assist in dealing with risk and overcoming poverty.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264112902

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Agricultural Policies for Poverty Reduction by OECD Pdf

This volume sets out a strategy for raising rural incomes which emphasises the creation of diversified rural economies with opportunities within and outside agriculture.

Author : M. Ataman Aksoy,Aylin Isik-Dikmelik,World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Agricultural activity
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Are Low Food Prices Pro-poor? by M. Ataman Aksoy,Aylin Isik-Dikmelik,World Bank Pdf

Abstract: There is a general consensus that most of the poor in developing countries are net food buyers and food price increases are bad for the poor. This could be expected of urban poor, but it is also often attributed to the rural poor. Recent food price increases have increased the importance of this issue, and the possible policy responses to these price increases. This paper examines the characteristics of net food sellers and buyers in nine low-income countries. Although the largest share of poor households are found to be net food buyers, almost 50 percent of net food buyers are marginal net food buyers who would not be significantly affected by food price increases. Only three of the nine countries examined exhibited a substantial proportion of vulnerable households. The average incomes (as measured by expenditure) of net food buyers were found to be higher than net food sellers in eight of the nine countries examined. Thus, food price increases, ceteris paribus, would transfer income from generally higher income net food buyers to poorer net food sellers. The analysis also finds that the occupations and income sources of net sellers and buyers in rural areas are significantly different. In rural areas where food production is the main activity and where there are limited non-food activities, the incomes of net buyers might depend on the incomes and farming activities of net food sellers. These results suggest the need for reevaluation of the consensus on the impact of food prices on food needs. Further work on the regional differences, and more important, on the second order effects, are necessary to answer these questions more precisely. Only on the basis of further analysis can we start generating better policy responses.

Author : Derek D. Headey,Kalle Hirvonen
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Food inflation, poverty, and urbanization by Derek D. Headey,Kalle Hirvonen Pdf

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 : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 925102488X

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The Dynamics of Rural Poverty by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Author : Marc J. Cohen,James L. Garrett
Publisher : IIED
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Food prices
ISBN : 9781843697398

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The Food Price Crisis and Urban Food (in)security by Marc J. Cohen,James L. Garrett Pdf

Author : M.L. Narasaiah
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Food supply
ISBN : 8183560628

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Poverty and Food Security by M.L. Narasaiah Pdf

Will there be enough food to feed 8 billion people who will live on earth in 25 years times? Surprisingly few people, at least in the industrial countries, seems to be overly concerned with this question. Whereas the world conferences on the environment, on women, human rights or social issues, which were held in recent years were preceded and accompanied by intensive public debate, food does not seem to be a burning issue. Don t we have mountains of surplus food, people ask. Do we not have to pay our farmers to leave their land idle in order not to add to the glut on the world markets? And hasn t the Green Revolution ended famine even in countries like India which used to be a synonym for hungry people? So where is the problem? The advance made in agricultural production since beginning against a background of imminent crisis are indeed remarkable. In only 20 years, yields of major crops like rice, maize and wheat in developing countries went up by 80 per cent, outpacing even the rapid increase in population. But this growth in yields has slowed down in recent years, and the aim of food for all is once again becoming elusive. About 800 million people still do not have access to enough food to meet their basic daily needs, nearly 200 million children suffer from protein and energy deficiencies, 88 countries 44 or them in Africa have a deficit in food production.

Author : Fabrizio Bresciani,Alberto Valdés
Publisher : Edward Elgar and Food and Agriculture Organization of United
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9251055351

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Beyond Food Production by Fabrizio Bresciani,Alberto Valdés Pdf

The importance of agricultural growth to poverty reduction is well known, but the specific channels through which the poor can take advantage of growth require further research. This publication takes on this challenge, investigating four important channels: rural labor markets, farm incomes, food prices, and linkages to other economic sectors. Using six developing country cases (Chile, Mexico, India, Indonesia, Ghana, South Africa), this study elucidates the mechanisms linking agriculture growth to economic development and the wellbeing of the poor. The evidence shows that governments should view the sector's contribution in wider terms, recognizing both its interaction with other economic sectors, and that labor markets and trade policies can play a critical role in mediating agriculture's impact on poor households' incomes. To achieve effective rural poverty strategies the book calls for a broad economy-wide perspective on the role of agriculture in the overall growth process.--Publisher's description.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9251032114

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Rural Poverty Alleviation by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Author : Peter Hazell,Lawrence James Haddad
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896296398

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Agricultural Research and Poverty Reduction by Peter Hazell,Lawrence James Haddad Pdf

The nature and extent of poverty; How agricultural research can help the poor; On-farm productivity impacts; Impact on Inter-regional migration; Impact on the nonfarm economy; Impact on food prices and diet quality; Targeting agricultural research to benefit the poor; Strategies for pro-poor agricultural research; Research strategies for smallholder farmers, for landless laborers and for more nutritious foods; The role of public research and extension systems.