Impact Of Food Prices Research Articles

The impact of food price and farmer’s income on the food demand in kurau sub-district, Tanah Laut Regency of South Kalimantan

The impact of food price and farmer’s income on the food demand in kurau sub-district, Tanah Laut Regency of South Kalimantan

Price Volatility and Trade: Implications for Food Security in ASEAN

In the context of a globalizing world, economic and trade policies are becoming more integrated than they were before. In spite of the gains that states were able to earn in terms of cooperation, there are issues that still need to be tackled on. One of these is the impact of food prices on food security, and its implications for attaining it. Another is the question on the role of trade as an activity in promoting food security, even if food prices are fluctuating at the global level. Despite the complexity of the situation, this paper posits that cooperation is regarded as one of the possibilities in overcoming food insecurity. In this regard, this paper seeks to probe into the rice trade in ASEAN. To probe into the phenomenon, these questions will be asked in the paper: how does food prices affect trade and food security; how does rice trade in ASEAN affect food security in the region; and who will gain and who will lose in making rice trade more integrated into the region. These questions were asked in the study in order to uncover the patterns of trade at the ASEAN level, to examine how trade affects food security at the regional level, and to understand the implications of a more integrated economy for the individuals belonging to these respective states. To conduct this particular study, the paper will utilize a case study of the ASEAN rice trade from 2013 to 2017. The data that the paper will use will come from available secondary data sources, specifically, data available from the ASEAN Food Security Information System, and available literature on the subject matter, which will be subjected to a content analysis, in order to answer the questions raised in the paper.

Urban shocks: the relationship between food prices and food security in Lesotho

ABSTRACTThe 2008 Food Price Crisis is estimated to have affected millions, forcing households into deeper poverty and food insecurity. However, nationally aggregated surveys demonstrate a remarkable degree of heterogeneity in the food insecurity impacts of high food prices. This investigation uses household survey data collected from the city of Maseru, Lesotho, during the 2008 Food Price Crisis to determine whether the impact of food prices was associated with household food insecurity. The investigation found that, while going without food due to food prices was associated with reduced dietary diversity, there was a much stronger association between food price impacts and reduced food access.

The Impact of Food Prices on Poverty and Food Security

Recent food price fluctuations have sparked renewed interest in the impact of food prices on poverty and food security. This paper reviews the literature and analyzes why different authors often reach different conclusions regarding the welfare impacts of food price changes. We first show that systematic measurement errors in household surveys may seriously affect estimates of the poor's dependence on food purchases at any given point in time. We then turn to the theoretical case for why the rural poor might ultimately benefit from higher food prices, with a particular focus on agricultural supply responses and resultant increases in demand for unskilled farm labor, which raise the wages of the poor. Consistent with these predictions, more sophisticated simulation models and new econometric evidence suggest that sustained increases in food prices have often benefited the poor and likely contributed to faster global poverty reduction from the mid-2000s onward. Conversely, the recent decline in agricultural prices could retard global poverty reduction.

Food Prices and Population Health in Developing Countries: An Investigation of the Effects of the Food Crisis Using a Panel Analysis

High food prices can be an immediate threat to household food security, undermining population health, retarding human development, and lowering labor productivity for the economy in the long term. We employ a panel dataset covering 63 developing countries from 2001 to 2010 to make a comprehensive assessment of the effects of food price inflation and volatility on population health measured by infant mortality rate, child mortality rate, and the prevalence of undernourishment. We find that rising food prices have a significant and adverse effect on all three health indicators in developing countries. Furthermore, the impact of food prices is severer in the least developing countries although the effect is moderated in countries with a greater share of agriculture in gross domestic product.

Impact Of Food Price Increase On Poor Households In Sri Lanka

Food price inflation was one of the major crises mooted in recent past. Marginalized poor people were hammered largely in developing countries including Sri Lanka. The awareness and preparedness for food crisis can reduce the impact as well as the social conflicts up to a certain extent. Hence, this study was designed to find out the awareness and impact of food price inflation among poor householders in rural Sri Lanka. A survey questionnaire was employed over 100 Samurdhi beneficiaries from Gampaha and Matara Districts. Data were analyzed using SPSS package. The results showed a positive relation-ship between education and level of awareness on food crisis (r = 0.325, P= 0.001). The majority of the sample was (77%) aware about the world food crisis and 88% of them has experienced it due to high prices of food commodities. The reasons they have put forwarded were climate change and lack of land for agriculture. There was a significant impact on spending on foods (p = 0.000) where the food ex-penses have increased after 2008 drastically. People have tried out to substitute wheat flour based prod-ucts with rice based products showing a significant association between wheat and rice consumption (χ2= 13.05, P=0.000). The rural poor in Sri Lanka were aware about world food crisis with some valid justifications. Hence, they tend to go for substitutes in order to smooth the negative impact of high food prices. Hence, the government can formulate policies toward import substitutes especially on food items as the perception of rural poor is favourable to lessen the threat of food crisis in future. Tropical Agricultural Research and Extension 15(1): 2012: page 19-23 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/tare.v15i2.5245

The impact of food prices on consumption: a systematic review of research on the price elasticity of demand for food.

In light of proposals to improve diets by shifting food prices, it is important to understand how price changes affect demand for various foods. We reviewed 160 studies on the price elasticity of demand for major food categories to assess mean elasticities by food category and variations in estimates by study design. Price elasticities for foods and nonalcoholic beverages ranged from 0.27 to 0.81 (absolute values), with food away from home, soft drinks, juice, and meats being most responsive to price changes (0.7-0.8). As an example, a 10% increase in soft drink prices should reduce consumption by 8% to 10%. Studies estimating price effects on substitutions from unhealthy to healthy food and price responsiveness among at-risk populations are particularly needed.

Are low food prices pro-poor? Net food buyers and sellers in low-income countries.

There is a general consensus that most of the poor in developing countries are net food buyers and food price increases are bad for the poor. This could be expected of urban poor, but it is also often attributed to the rural poor. Recent food price increases have increased the importance of this issue, and the possible policy responses to these price increases. This paper examines the characteristics of net food sellers and buyers in nine low-income countries. Although the largest share of poor households are found to be net food buyers, almost 50 percent of net food buyers are marginal net food buyers who would not be significantly affected by food price increases. Only three of the nine countries examined exhibited a substantial proportion of vulnerable households. The average incomes (as measured by expenditure) of net food buyers were found to be higher than net food sellers in eight of the nine countries examined. Thus, food price increases, ceteris paribus, would transfer income from generally higher income net food buyers to poorer net food sellers. The analysis also finds that the occupations and income sources of net sellers and buyers in rural areas are significantly different. In rural areas where food production is the main activity and where there are limited non-food activities, the incomes of net buyers might depend on the incomes and farming activities of net food sellers. These results suggest the need for reevaluation of the consensus on the impact of food prices on food needs. Further work on the regional differences, and more important, on the second order effects, are necessary to answer these questions more precisely. Only on the basis of further analysis can we start generating better policy responses.