THE EFFECTIVENESS OF FOOD SECURITY DIMENSIONS ON FOOD SECURITY IN LANDLOCKED DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Food Security in Developing Countries

Food security and insecurity are terms used to describe whether or not people have access to sufficient quality and quantity of food. They are affected by factors such as poverty, health, food production, political stability, infrastructure, access to markets, and natural hazards. Improved food security is important for global reduction of hunger and poverty, and for economic development. One a...

Behavioral dimensions of food security.

The empirical regularities of behavioral economics, especially loss aversion, time inconsistency, other-regarding preferences, herd behavior, and framing of decisions, present significant challenges to traditional approaches to food security. The formation of price expectations, hoarding behavior, and welfare losses from highly unstable food prices all depends on these behavioral regularities. ...

Globalization of food systems in developing countries: impact on food security and nutrition.

Food Security in Developing Countries: a Case Study for India

This study provides food security situation in India for the next two decades. As expected, total physical land will remain more or less flat in the next two decade. But net cropped area is projected to increase through higher cropping intensity. More than 70 percent of additional area is likely to switch to horticultural and permanent crops. Among crops, oilseeds such as soybeans, rapeseed, an...

Food Security and Economic Growth

T  his study aimed to examine the relationship between food security, health and economic growth. These three components together form the vertices of a triangle. How much does food security strategies in a country bring more health to its people? Is the  healthy population richer? What is the impact of health on income, and to what extent are income variation am...