Showing papers in "Food Policy in 1990"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the level of influence environmentally conscious or green consumers are placing on food manufacturers and retailers, and consider some of the broader issues that have arisen from the general growth in environmental concern and look at their implications for food product development across the board.

TL;DR: The food situation in Africa can be expected to become increasingly serious as the end of the century approaches as mentioned in this paper, and the gap between domestic supply and food needs is rapidly widening, and yield-increasing technology becomes essential in view of land scarcity in high-potential areas and sustainability problems in marginal zones.

TL;DR: The International Food Policy Research Institute has conducted re search to identify the key factors in this process, and in March 1989 conducted a workshop in Guatemala for researchers and policy makers as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: A review of the recent major research findings concerning the effect of household behavior on food consumption and nutrition can be found in this article, where the authors focus on the impact of economic changes and government actions on the nutritional status of the population.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined maize pricing, marketing, and trade in the East and Southern African region, and pointed out that despite an objective of maize self-sufficiency, many countries in the region continue to face erratic supplies.

TL;DR: The authors discusses the significance of different types of voluntary agencies vis-a-vis the public sector and examines in what roles they can be expected to perform well, focusing on non-government organizations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a grand strategy or policy for agricultural biotechnology, which can have impacts on farm structure and production methods, the regional balance of agriculture, the markets for many agricultural commodities, and the environment.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the major nutritional consequences of urbanization with special reference to the urban poor and discuss measures and policies which are needed both to alleviate its impact on urban poor, and to improve their nutritional status.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how commercialization of agriculture, especially the production of sorghum as a cash crop, has affected household economic strategies and child nutritional status in four agrarian reform communities in Mexico.

TL;DR: A review of the current state of plant biotechnologies, the crop plants and characteristics towards which they are aimed, and the institutional frameworks developing to implement them suggests that impacts on hunger will be minimal in the 1990s, but that institutional developments will probably shape their impact on hunger over the longer term.

TL;DR: The evidence suggests that the Indian seed industry will not be overwhelmed by foreign imports or taken over by multinational seed companies (MNCs), and even in these crops Indian firms should be able to compete if they invest in research as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that part of the solution to the problem of growing food imports lies in concentrating more effort and resources on the traditional food sector, particularly on what are described as the starchy staples.

TL;DR: The effects on food availability and nutritional status will probably continue into the 1990s if policy measures to increase the access of the poor to food and to check population growth are not put in place.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss three cases where nutrition has played a role in setting agricultural research directions, without evident nutritional impact, and conclude that the personal, political and ideological factors that seriously limit the effectiveness of nutrition as a parameter for research planning.

TL;DR: The history of community food law is briefly traced in this paper and the changes in policy which followed the difficulties encountered in vertical harmonization and the Cassis de Dijon case are described.

TL;DR: This article reviewed the global hunger situation in the 1980s and discussed food shortage, food poverty and food deprivation, including estimates of numbers affected by insufficient aggregate food supply, inadequate entitlement and assorted nutrient deficiencies.

TL;DR: The acquisition of commodities in developing countries for food aid operations through triangular transactions, local purchases and exchange or swap arrangements has increased significantly during the 1980s, particularly for use in sub-Saharan Africa as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used an 11-region, 22-commodity world net trade model to study the economic implications of agricultural policy reform in industrial market economies, and they found that elimination of protectionist agricultural policies would drive up world prices for most commodities and that the increases would be related to the levels of government assistance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the roles of local institutions in food production and examine the mechanisms for coping with food shortages in two Tanzanian villages, and examine how to cope with food shortage.

TL;DR: The trend is fuelled by three factors, say the authors: the increasing use of chemicals and fertilizers, the emergence of a two-tiered international structure of environmental regulation, and the pressures for protectionism in the developed world as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: There is a prospect of overcoming temporary food insecurity through a regional food reserve, though not every member country can contribute to it at present, and it should be accompanied by bilateral and multilateral efforts to harmonize food and agricultural policies.

TL;DR: In this article, the main preoccupations of earlier authors who have often seen food manufacturing as simply an extension of agriculture were outlined, and long-term macroeconomic analysis demonstrates that developments in the food industry are not dissimilar to those in other industries, and that the farming base for raw material supplies does not determine the industry's development.

TL;DR: In this article, a historical overview of the research and development (R&D) of semi-dwarf and hybrid wheats in the US is used to determine what the role of the public sector should be.

TL;DR: The GATT round does not need 1992, but it could act as a counterweight to these protectionist tendencies as mentioned in this paper, and three aspects of the CAP seem particularly vulnerable to 1992 pressures: quotas, monetary compensatory amounts, and the cosy relationship between agriculture and the food industry.

TL;DR: In this paper, a positive contribution to the debate on nutrition and agricultural research, discussed in the preceding article by Robert Tripp, is made, where the authors argue that there are oppurtunities for enhancing the nutrition effects associated with a given investment in agricultural research.

TL;DR: In this article, preliminary empirical findings on the size, structure and corporate characteristics of these sectors in the UK are discussed along with possible future trends along with some possible future future trends.