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Impact of domestic food prices on access to food in developing areas in the world

Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development

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Title Impact of domestic food prices on access to food in developing areas in the world
 
Creator Mathini, Selvarasan
Edirisinghe, Jagath Chaminda
Kuruppu, Virajith
 
Description Food security is a condition related to the supply of food and individuals’ access to it. Food access and availability highly depend on price of food products. Therefore, this research looks at the impact of food price and other impediments over past years on access to food. We use a panel data set from 71 countries covering the period from the year 2000-2011. We employ a Generalized Least Squares procedure to overcome problems of heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation commonly observed in panel data. There is a clear case of the detrimental effect of domestic food prices and its volatility on access to food and thereby on food security. Findings also show that food loss at retail level critically determines depth of food deficit, more than that of the impact from national income.
 
Publisher Italian Agency for Development Cooperation
 
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Date 2017-06-29
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion


 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.iao.florence.it/ojs/index.php/JAEID/article/view/542
10.12895/jaeid.20171.542
 
Source Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development; Vol 111, No 1 (2017); 63-73
Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development (JAEID); Vol 111, No 1 (2017); 63-73
2240-2802
1590-7198
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.iao.florence.it/ojs/index.php/JAEID/article/view/542/209
 
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