Food Production Income Distribution And Prices
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Food Production Income Distribution And Prices
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Author : Gervasio Castro de Rezende
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Food Production Income Distribution And Prices written by Gervasio Castro de Rezende and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Agriculture categories.
What Price Food
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Author : Paul Streeten
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-01-03
What Price Food written by Paul Streeten and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-03 with Business & Economics categories.
The starting point of Paul Streeten's book is the dilemma, faced by policy makers in many developing countries: should the price of food be high, in order to stimulate production, or low, in order to prevent poor food buyers from starving? The author goes on to discuss the role of prices in the light of these and other objectives. 'It is the work of one of our wisest scholars on what I consider to be the key policy issue for economic development in the 1980s...this provocative essay will be required reading for anyone working on agricultural price policy.' C.Peter Timmer 'It provides solid and practical guidance to scholars and decision-makers. It is lucid, balanced and, above all, useful.' Robert Klitgaard 'Paul Streeten is well known for his gift of explaining the pros and cons of difficult policy issues in a clear, simple and realistic way, appealing to policy-makers, students and the wider development community, as well as to academic colleagues. This gift is fully displayed in his new book, and readers are bound to emerge with a better awareness of the conflicts and policy reforms which are involved.' H.W.Singer
Food Price Policy And Income Distribution In Low Income Countries
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Author : John Williams Mellor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Food Price Policy And Income Distribution In Low Income Countries written by John Williams Mellor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with categories.
Abstract: The component parts of a general equilibrium analysis relating price policy to income distribution is delineated. Data relative to the effects of price change on a variety of these component parts are presented. Discussion is focused on five major topics: direct effects of foodgrain price changes on distribution of income among consumers; direct effects of foodgrain price changes on distribution of income among producers; effect of relative changes in agricultural prices on agricultural production; effects of agricultural price policy on equipment; and major policy implications
Food Production Income Distribution And Prices
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Author : Gervasio Castro de Rezende
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Food Production Income Distribution And Prices written by Gervasio Castro de Rezende and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Agriculture categories.
Are Low Food Prices Pro Poor
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Author : M. Ataman Aksoy
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2008
Are Low Food Prices Pro Poor written by M. Ataman Aksoy and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Agricultural activity categories.
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.
Agricultural Price Distortions Inequality And Poverty
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Author : Kym Anderson
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2010-03-17
Agricultural Price Distortions Inequality And Poverty written by Kym Anderson and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-17 with Political Science categories.
The prices of farm products are crucial determinants of the extent of poverty and inequality in the world. The vast majority of the world s poorest households depend to a considerable extent on farming for their incomes, while food represents a large component of the consumption of all poor households. For generations, food prices have been heavily distorted by government policies in high-income and developing countries. Many countries began to reform their agricultural price and trade policies in the 1980s, but government policy intervention is still considerable and still favors farmers in high-income countries at the expense of many farmers in developing countries. What would be the poverty and inequality consequences of the removal of the remaining distortions to agricultural incentives? This question is of great relevance to governments in evaluating ways to engage in multilateral and regional trade negotiations or to improve their own policies unilaterally. 'Agricultural Price Distortions, Inequality, and Poverty' analyzes the effects of agricultural and trade policies around the world on national and regional economic welfare, on income inequality among and within countries, and on the level and incidence of poverty in developing countries. The studies include economy-wide analyses of the inequality and poverty effects of own-country policies compared with rest-of-the-world policies for 10 individual developing countries in three continents. This book also includes three chapters that each use a separate global economic model to examine the effects of policies on aggregate poverty and the distribution of poverty across many identified developing countries. This study is motivated by two policy issues: first, the World Trade Organization s struggle to conclude the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations, in which agricultural policy reform is, again, one of the most contentious topics in the talks and, second, the struggle of the developing countries to achieve their Millennium Development Goals by 2015 notably the alleviation of hunger and poverty which depends crucially on policies that affect agricultural incentives.
Food Statistics
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Author : Gerald R. Campbell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Food Statistics written by Gerald R. Campbell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Food prices categories.
Exploring Health And Environmental Costs Of Food
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Author : National Research Council
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2012-12-28
Exploring Health And Environmental Costs Of Food written by National Research Council and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-28 with Medical categories.
The U.S. food system provides many benefits, not the least of which is a safe, nutritious and consistent food supply. However, the same system also creates significant environmental, public health, and other costs that generally are not recognized and not accounted for in the retail price of food. These include greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, soil erosion, air pollution, and their environmental consequences, the transfer of antibiotic resistance from food animals to human, and other human health outcomes, including foodborne illnesses and chronic disease. Some external costs which are also known as externalities are accounted for in ways that do not involve increasing the price of food. But many are not. They are borne involuntarily by society at large. A better understanding of external costs would help decision makers at all stages of the life cycle to expand the benefits of the U.S. food system even further. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the National Research Council (NRC) with support from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) convened a public workshop on April 23-23, 2012, to explore the external costs of food, methodologies for quantifying those costs, and the limitations of the methodologies. The workshop was intended to be an information-gathering activity only. Given the complexity of the issues and the broad areas of expertise involved, workshop presentations and discussions represent only a small portion of the current knowledge and are by no means comprehensive. The focus was on the environmental and health impacts of food, using externalities as a basis for discussion and animal products as a case study. The intention was not to quantify costs or benefits, but rather to lay the groundwork for doing so. A major goal of the workshop was to identify information sources and methodologies required to recognize and estimate the costs and benefits of environmental and public health consequences associated with the U.S. food system. It was anticipated that the workshop would provide the basis for a follow-up consensus study of the subject and that a central task of the consensus study will be to develop a framework for a full-scale accounting of the environmental and public health effects for all food products of the U.S. food system. Exploring Health and Environmental Costs of Food: Workshop Summary provides the basis for a follow-up planning discussion involving members of the IOM Food and Nutrition Board and the NRC Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources and others to develop the scope and areas of expertise needed for a larger-scale, consensus study of the subject.
Contemporary Economic Issues
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Author : Y. Mundlak
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1998-03-15
Contemporary Economic Issues written by Y. Mundlak and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-03-15 with Political Science categories.
An overview of many currently topical issues around food and agriculture, with particular emphasis on their implications for development. These include Nobel Laureate Robert Fogel's discussion of nutritional standards and the implications of new theories of evolution in assessing the extent of malnutrition. Historical analysis informs contemporary surveys, including Yair Mundlak's comparison of the postwar record of 130 countries in agricultural technology and outputs. The important implications of labour markets, income distributions and the impact of welfare states on these issues are considered by a number of papers. The contributors include many leading academics from North America, Europe, Africa, Australia and Israel.
Food Prices In Perspective
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Author : United States. Department of Agriculture. Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Food Prices In Perspective written by United States. Department of Agriculture. Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Agriculture categories.
Abstract: A USDA report summarizes the causes of food price inflation. Retail food prices in the United States rose over90% annually from 1973 to 1979. Increases in prices result from higher farm-level commodity prices and higher marketingcosts. Food production costs, trade policies, food marketing costs, and structural changes are controllable in varying degrees. Control of fluctuations due to weather and the biological nature of food production processes is unlikely. Consumers are partially responsible for food priceincreases through rising incomes and changing lifestyles. Reduction of the upward movement in food prices will requirea long-term effort. The Government, food industry, and consumers can slow price increases by 1) supporting programsto reduce inflation rate; 2) encouraging price competition; 3) encouraging consumer nutrition education; 4) stabilizing trade flows; 5) reviewing regulations; 6) eliminating labor practices and policies that limit savings; 7) encouraging new technology, especially packaging, adoption.