Country and regional staple food price indices for improved identification of food insecurity

Brown, M. E.; Tondel, Fabien; Essam, Timothy; Thorne, Jennifer A.; Mann, Bristol F.; Leonard, Kenneth L.; Stabler, Blake; Eilerts, Gary

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.03.005

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“…Lack of food access is caused by the cost of food being greater than the available disposable income of an individual or family Konandreas, 2012;VerPloeg et al, 2012). The variability of local food prices is extremely important to the food security of the very poor, particularly when local prices change rapidly over short periods (Bellemare, 2015;Brown et al, 2012). Rapid changes in food affordability affect human well-being by increasing poverty, reducing educational attainment, affecting health services, and reducing the productive assets held by the poor (Grosh, Ninno, Tesliuc, & Ouerghi, 2008).…”

Section: Food Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Global prices have only a limited connection to local food insecurity, however (Baffes & Gardner, 2003). Although the FAO food price index reflects changes in the price of cereals, vegetable oil, dairy, meat, and sugar at capital cities and on the international markets, the poor in developing countries tend to eat millet, sorghum, manioc, cassava, banana, cowpeas, and other locally grown foods that are not included in these indices (Brown et al, 2012).…”

Section: Remote Sensing Approaches For Estimating Changes In Food Avamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Local food prices in food insecure regions do not immediately follow international export market price trends due to imperfect market integration, prices for local products moving between the export and import parity price bounds, an absence of imported products grown elsewhere, and other barriers to trade (Brown et al, 2012;Conforti, 2004;Minot, 2011). Given these challenges, changes in land use to or away from locally grown agricultural products that are widely consumed by the poor will change access to these products and may result in food insecurity due to changes in access to them.…”

Section: Remote Sensing Approaches For Estimating Changes In Food Avamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Remote sensing technology and land use analysis in food security assessment

Brown

2016

Journal of Land Use Science

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Climate change and a rapidly growing human population have put ever greater strains on the global food system. Although the number of food insecure people in the world has reached a record low, changing land use and climate variability will threaten our ability to maintain this progress. Profound changes in the structure of economies around the world have affected agricultural production and how food is delivered to the consumer. This paper explores connections between land use, environmental change and food availability, access, and utilization. Each of these elements of food security has vulnerabilities to changing environmental conditions and land use that can be explored using satellite remote sensing observations. Technology is a key way environmental changes can be quantified and used in food security assessment. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Food Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Remote Sensing Approaches For Estimating Changes In Food Avamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Remote Sensing Approaches For Estimating Changes In Food Avamentioning

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Remote sensing technology and land use analysis in food security assessment

Brown

2016

Journal of Land Use Science

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“…At some point it will happen that, to meet their own demand, water-rich countries will have to reduce their exports, thereby causing the emergence of water limitations in tradedependent countries. For instance, during the 2008 food crisis some exporting countries panicked and banned the exports of food crops (27). Unless new freshwater resources become available or investments for a more water-efficient agriculture are made, these populations will have to decrease.…”

Section: Demographic Growth and Water Availabilitymentioning

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Water-controlled wealth of nations

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Rinaldo

Maritan

et al. 2013

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Population growth is in general constrained by food production, which in turn depends on the access to water resources. At a country level, some populations use more water than they control because of their ability to import food and the virtual water required for its production. Here, we investigate the dependence of demographic growth on available water resources for exporting and importing nations. By quantifying the carrying capacity of nations on the basis of calculations of the virtual water available through the food trade network, we point to the existence of a global water unbalance. We suggest that current export rates will not be maintained and consequently we question the long-term sustainability of the food trade system as a whole. Water-rich regions are likely to soon reduce the amount of virtual water they export, thus leaving import-dependent regions without enough water to sustain their populations. We also investigate the potential impact of possible scenarios that might mitigate these effects through (i) cooperative interactions among nations whereby water-rich countries maintain a tiny fraction of their food production available for export, (ii) changes in consumption patterns, and (iii) a positive feedback between demographic growth and technological innovations. We find that these strategies may indeed reduce the vulnerability of water-controlled societies.

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“…Recent spikes in key agricultural food commodity prices in 2008-09 and 2010-11 affected the livelihoods and food security of millions of people (Akter and Basher, 2014;Brown et al, 2009;FAO, 2008) and led to riots (Berazneva and Lee, 2013). Studies indicate that country and regional agricultural food prices behave differently from international food prices (Brown et al, 2012;Minot, 2014) due to low integration of local and regional markets into international markets. Data on forest food prices appear very limited; it is difficult to collect, due to the high number of products and the frequency of informal trading, and thus not systematically monitored.…”

Section: Absolute and Relative Food Pricesmentioning

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1. Forests, Trees and Landscapes for Food Security and Nutrition

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Jamnadass³

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Forests and Food: Addressing Hunger and Nutrition Across Sustainable Landscapes

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PrefaceConnecting the dots W ith the establishment of the Global Forest Expert Panels (GFEP) initiative in the year 2007, the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) created an international mechanism which effectively links scientific knowledge with political decision-making on forests. The GFEP responds directly to key forest-related policy questions by consolidating available scientific knowledge and expertise on these questions at a global level. It provides decision-makers with the most relevant, objective and accurate information, and thus makes an essential contribution to international forest governance.This report entitled "Forests, Trees and Landscapes for Food Security and Nutrition" presents the results of the fourth global scientific assessment undertaken so far in the framework of GFEP. Previous assessments addressed the adaptation of forests and people to climate change; international forest governance; and the relationship between biodiversity, carbon, forests and people. All assessment reports were prepared by internationally recognised scientists from a variety of biophysical and social science disciplines. They have all been presented to decision-makers across relevant international policy fora. In this way, GFEP supports a more coherent policy dialogue about the role of forests in addressing broader environmental, social and economic challenges.The current report reflects the importance of policy coherence and integration more than any previous GFEP assessment. It comes at a time when the United Nations General Assembly seeks to adopt a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which build upon the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and converge with the post-2015 development agenda. In this context, the eradication of hunger, realisation of food security and the improvement of nutrition are of particular relevance. By 2050, the international community will face the challenge of providing 9 billion people with food, shelter and energy. Despite impressive productivity increases, there is growing evidence that conventional agricultural strategies will fall short of eliminating global hunger and malnutrition. The assessment report in hand provides comprehensive scientific evidence on how forests, trees and landscapes can be -and must be -an integral part of the solution to this global problem. In other words, we must connect the dots and see the bigger picture.The review of the International Arrangement on Forests by the member states of the United Nations Forum on Forests provides a unique opportunity to integrate forests into the SDGs in a holistic manner and to promote synergies in the implementation of the post-2015 development agenda across multiple levels of governance. It is my hope that those with a responsibility for forests, food security and nutrition at all levels will find this report, and its accompanying policy brief, a useful source of information and inspiration.

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Country and regional staple food price indices for improved identification of food insecurity

Cited by 31 publications

References 31 publications

Remote sensing technology and land use analysis in food security assessment

Remote sensing technology and land use analysis in food security assessment

Water-controlled wealth of nations

1. Forests, Trees and Landscapes for Food Security and Nutrition

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