Showing papers by "International Food Policy Research Institute published in 1980"
TL;DR: In this paper, the relative merits of alternative national and international intervention schemes for food security problems in Asia, Africa and Latin America are assessed, and a quantitative assessment of national food insecurity for a sample of LDCs is presented.
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TL;DR: The two consumption questions address the issue of how to utilize a gross increase in food supply to improve quickly nutritional status and the longrange effects of food aid on total supplies, consumption, and nutrition.
Abstract: Four questions should be considered when discussing improving human nutrition through food aid. What is the effect of increased food supplies and the corresponding decline in food prices on food consumption and the nutritional status of low income people? Can market interventions increase the efficiency of a given addition to food supplies for these purposes? What is the effect of reduced prices on food production? And, can market interventions decrease the unfavorable supply effects of consumption-oriented policies? The two consumption questions address the issue of how to utilize a gross increase in food supply to improve quickly nutritional status. The two production questions deal with longrange effects of food aid on total supplies, consumption, and nutrition.
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