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"The Global Food Crisis: Identification of the Vulnerable and Policy Responses."

de Janvry, Alain and Elisabeth Sadoulet.

from ARE Update, Vol. 12, No. 2, Nov/Dec, 2008

Abstract:

Seventy-five percent of the world poor are rural people. Half a billion of them are located in countries both vulnerable to rising food prices and with weak capacity to provide social safety nets. For them, agriculture must be the main instrument to respond to the food crisis and escape poverty.

Keywords:

global food crisis, food prices, poverty

Citation:

de Janvry, Alain and Elisabeth Sadoulet. "The Global Food Crisis: Identification of the Vulnerable and Policy Responses." Agricultural and Resource Economics Update 12(2)(2008):18-21.

http://giannini.ucop.edu/media/are-update/files/articles/v12n2_7.pdf

 

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