Highlights: We collect a sample of more than 50,000 food demand elasticities from 444 studies. The data covers 87 countries and 14 food groups, with 10 animal...
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To sell or store? Assessing smallholder farmers' willingness to pay for potato cold storage in Kenya
Storage of food commodities for some time after harvest can play an important role in alleviating the downside of price fluctuations in developing countries. While storage can...
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) risks rolling back many of the efforts and global successes recorded in reducing poverty and food insecurity. We undertake a systematic search and review...
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We analyze nutrition implications of changing diets in Tanzania 2008–2019.
Rising incomes did not increase the diversity of food consumed at home.
Consumption...
Over the past 50 years, food systems worldwide have shifted from predominantly rural to industrialized and consolidated systems, with impacts on diets, nutrition and health, livelihoods, and environmental...
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This article discusses the following six cross-cutting lessons from the emerging microeconomic literature on changes in food insecurity associated with the COVID-19 pandemic:
Food insecurity increases...
Smallholder farmers in low and middle income countries often sell the bulk of their marketable surplus immediately after the harvest, when prices are at their lowest...
Poor-quality diets are one of the leading causes of malnutrition and common non-communicable disease. In this study, we use nationally representative household survey data and food demand...
The COVID-19 pandemic and the economic policy measures taken to prevent its spread led to a global recession in 2020 that was expected to cause significant increases in poverty and food...
This document presents the estimation methodology for the Income and Price Elasticities of Food Demand (E-FooD) Dataset, Version 1.0. The E-FooD Dataset focuses on developing countries. It will...