Stored food production is critical to food security. Food security refers to the physical availability of, the economic and physical access to, and the ability to utilize food (FAO, 2008, available at; http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/al936e/al936e00.pdf). Stored food production is a vital link in...
Publisher
Julius Kühn Institut, Bundesforschungsinstitut für Kulturpflanzen, Quedlinburg, Germany
Citation
Julius-Kühn-Archiv, 2018, No.463, pp 18-20
Papua New Guinea has 19 provinces, 89 districts and around 284 local-level governments, covering 5747 council wards. Thus, delivery of the recently endorsed National Food Security and Nutrition Policy from the national government through districts and local governments is a long and critical...
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Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), Canberra, Australia
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Food security for Papua New Guinea. Proceedings of the Papua New Guinea Food and Nutrition 2000 Conference, PNG University of Technology, Lae, Papua New Guinea, 26-30 June 2000, 2001, pp 54-60
State level data on food environment variables for the period 2000 through 2013, gathered from the Food Environment Atlas and various other government sources are used to model a panel VAR to capture specific state-level fixed and random effects. The set of food environment variables can be broadly ...
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Senarath Dharmasena; Bessler, D. A.; Todd, J.; Capps, O., Jr.
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Agribusiness, Food and Consumer Economics Research Center, Department of Agricultural Economics, College Station, USA
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Report - Agribusiness, Food and Consumer Economics Research Center, Department of Economics, Texas A & M University, 2014, No.CM-13-14, pp 1-7
This paper describes the characteristics of food insecurity in net food-importing developing countries (NFIDCs), highlighting their low supply of calories and proteins, their dependence on cereal imports and the increased cost of these imports. Specific measures (including trade policies) that LDCs ...
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy
Citation
FAO Food Outlook, 2012, No.May, pp 61-66
In the context of this chapter, drivers are considered to be natural or anthropogenic developments affecting forests and tree-based systems for food security and nutrition. They can improve and contribute to food security and nutrition, but they can also lead to food insecurity and malnutrition....
Author(s)
Basnett, B. S.; Martin, A.; Rai, N. D.; Smith-Hall, C.
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IUFRO (International Union of Forestry Research Organizations) Secretariat, Wien, Austria
Citation
IUFRO World Series, 2015, 33, pp 87-111
This article examines the pathways and impacts of rapidly rising agricultural input prices, especially those of energy derived from fossil fuels, which can have detrimental effects on the global food economy in terms of their influence on food prices and future price developments, as well as their...
Author(s)
Schmidhuber, J.; Qiao Bing
Publisher
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy
Citation
FAO Food Outlook, 2021, November, pp 11-21
This paper outlines the modern challenges for the Commission for Agricultural Meteorology of the World Meteorological Organization in contributing to food security, in context of rapid population growth and climate change. Food security has been a theme of development for the Commission since it...
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World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Geneva, Switzerland
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Bulletin - World Meteorological Organization, 2010, 59, 2, pp 82-86
The high altitude and harsh environment of Tibet renders crop cultivation impossible in most areas. As a result, the land can only be used for extensive grazing. Rangeland degradation, together with poor transportation and infrastructure construction, has caused pastoralists to face the prospect of ...
Author(s)
Cui, G.; Zhang, W.; Long, R.
Publisher
Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan
Citation
JIRCAS Working Report, 2013, No.79, pp 69-72
The Australian and New Zealand joint food regulation system is a complex bi-national system that involves all levels of the Australian and New Zealand governments. Food policy is developed cooperatively by ministers from the 10 Australian and New Zealand government jurisdictions that make up the...
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Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, Kingston, Australia
Citation
AgriFutures Australia Publication, 2022, 22-087, pp 76-76
This report estimates historical indicators of food security and evaluates the effectiveness of food aid in improving food security in low-income countries since 1990. Regional summaries are presented for North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Commonwealth...
Author(s)
Shapouri, S.; Rosen, S.
Publisher
US Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service (ERS-NASS), Washington, USA
Citation
Agricultural and Trade Reports, USDA Economic Research Service, 2004, No.GFA-15, pp 1-11