Soaring food prices in the last decades have caused the government to introduce interventions (e.g., rice distribution at a subsidized rate, controlled imports, and subsidized production). These interventions are based on good intentions but do not always improve the situation in a sustainable ...
Food security is a social determinant of health and a sustainable development goal (SDG). Goal 2 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development set by the United Nations in 2015 aims to “eradicate hunger” and “ensure access by all people, including the poor and vulnerable people, to safe...
University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Romania I enjoyed attending the conference and was such a pleasure to see other participants from other countries. Your team has been very organized. I hope the COVID-19 situation will finish soon and we can have face to face conferences. I like to be ...
There is widespreadhunger and malnutritionin all parts of India. India ranks 66th on the 2008 Global Hunger Index of 88 countries while Pakistan is slightly better at 61 and Bangladesh slightly worse at 70. The first India State Hunger Index (Ishi) report in 2008 found that Madhya Pradesh ha...
measuring food security (energy intake) worldwide. It highlights three highly undernourished regions—Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean—compared to the global scenario. According to Fig.1, Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest hunger rate at 20.9% in 2020, followed by...
Given seasonal price changes of staple foods, some households buy them when prices are low and store them for the hunger season (not buy high (NBH) households), while others run out of staple foods before the next harvest and therefore buy them when prices are high (buy high (BH) househo...
By contrast, the situation in China improved with the end of the Cold War in the beginning of the 1990s. In the next section, we empirically test the role that NRPTAs play in the patterns we observe in Fig. 1, Fig. 2. 3.2. Regression results 3.2.1. All country groups Table 2 ...
This study aimed to analyze price instability in Bangladesh’s primary staple crops, rice, and wheat, focusing on (1) the effects of food price volati
While the debate continues and uncertainties about the precise influence of climate change on food security linger, the question of whether climate change plays a pivotal role in increased hunger and food insecurity across countries remains unanswered. This study presented new evidence of the role of...
Basine promised to bring food in the night; and as no one had occasion to enter her room, David might defy his enemies one and ...— Lost Illusions • Honore De Balzac Read full book for free! ... under it, it was unsafe either to sell or give food or lodging to a stranger....