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The functioning of the Egyptian food-subsidy system during food-price shocks

22/06/2011

12 pages long

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Egypt has an extensive system of food subsidies which provides bread and other basic staples to the population at low prices. This article examines the functioning of the food-subsidy system during two recent periods of rapid food-price inflation to evaluate its effectiveness as a social safety net. Three aspects are considered: the difference in rural […]

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High global food prices – crisis or opportunity for smallholder farmers in Tanzania?

19/06/2011

13 pages long

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The recent food-price crisis has contributed towards a huge increase in the number of hungry people in the world. The main purpose of this article is to use empirical data collected from food-surplus and food-deficit study districts to assess to what degree, and how, high food prices have affected smallholder farmers in Tanzania when it […]

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Agro-food market policy and food security in South Africa

18/06/2011

9 pages long

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South Africa experienced two waves of rapid food inflation in 2001–02 and 2007–08. During both periods the surge in the cost of food undermined the food-security status of low-income families. Belated state reactions to the food-price crises pay scant attention to the fact that poor net food buyers rely on agro-food markets for their food […]

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Can inflation be a good thing for the poor? Evidence from Ethiopia

17/06/2011

12 pages long

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In 2006–08, Ethiopia experienced high food and non-food inflation. This study shows that the recent inflationary spell is likely to have significantly worsened poverty in urban areas, given the reliance on the market for most consumption needs. In rural areas the distributive impact of inflation is less easy to measure. In Ethiopia’s rural areas, many […]

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Characteristics and strategies favouring sustained food access during Guinea’s food-price crisis

16/06/2011

15 pages long

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This study examines household food-access status in rural areas of Guinea, a poor, net food-importing West African state, during the height of the food-price crisis. Linking a household’s food-access status with specific household characteristics and strategies, the article provides evidence on those unique characteristics and strategies favouring sustained food access during the price crisis. The […]

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Lessons from the 2008 global food crisis: agro-food dynamics in Mali

15/06/2011

8 pages long

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High food prices in 2008 sparked food riots around the world, with urban West Africa suffering many of these disturbances. Urban Mali appears to have been spared the worst of this crisis as consumers shifted from rice to sorghum, a grain whose production increased steeply as cotton production collapsed in the wake of lower global […]

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The effects of changing food prices on welfare and poverty in Guatemala

13/06/2011

11 pages long

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This study analyses the welfare and poverty effects of the 2007–08 food-price crisis on households in Guatemala. Estimates reveal that the price increases negatively affected 96.4 per cent of households and resulted in a 1.1 per cent increase in the national poverty rate. On average, households lose 2.3 per cent of their expenditure capacity, and […]

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Food crisis, small-scale farmers, and markets in the Andes

12/06/2011

11 pages long

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In the Andean region, national policy responses to the 2007–08 food-price crisis emphasised reducing pressures on consumers, and particularly on urban populations. In Bolivia, the prices of all domestic and imported food tubers and grains rose dramatically in major markets. Unexpectedly, evidence from focus groups and field research demonstrates that even in remote regions where […]

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The Mexican tortilla crisis of 2007: the impacts of grain-price increases on food-production chains

11/06/2011

15 pages long

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This article examines the case of the Mexican ‘tortilla crisis’ of 2007. Drawing on reviews of literature and the media, key-informant interviews, and secondary databases, the authors explore the response of the Mexican maize–tortilla chain to a price shock. Price increases should theoretically be passed on to the consumer as a progressively less significant percentage […]

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Bearing risk is hard to do: crop price risk transfer for poor farmers and low-income countries

10/06/2011

13 pages long

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This article takes the food crisis that began in 2007 as an occasion to draw attention to the deleterious impact of agricultural market volatility on poor farmers and food importing low-income countries. The article presents a menu of mechanisms that may reduce volatility or farmer and low-income country exposure to it. This is followed by […]

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