This guide sets out the main issues and significant challenges, and suggests solutions and guidelines for viable NTFP-based SMFEs. Government, nongovernmental agencies and their business partners have important roles to play in developing this sector f…
Archive for March, 2013
Factor endowments, wage growth, and changing food self-sufficiency
Asian countries have witnessed a sharp increase in real wage as a result of rapid economic growth and structural transformation in recent years. Using a country level panel data from 1980 to 2010, this paper examines the effects of real wage increase o…
Experts on Hidden Hunger to meet in Hohenheim
The University of Hohenheim in Germany will be holding the International Congress Hidden Hunger, From Assessment to Solutions, from March 6-9, 2013.
Impact of food price changes on household welfare in Ghana
In the wake of the global food crisis of 2007–08 and additional price spikes since then, greater attention has been given to the welfare impact of food price increases in developing countries. The standard approach in this type of analysis, proposed …
Parametric decomposition of the malmquist index in an output-oriented distance function
The paper extends the methodology of parametric decomposition of the Malmquist productivity index using an output distance function. This approach addresses common methodological issues in total factor productivity estimation to produce credible and re…