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Food choices at a client choice food pantry: Do low-income pantry users respond to changed opportunity costs? 客户选择食品储藏室的食品选择：低收入食品储藏室使用者会对机会成本的变化做出反应吗？

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2024-06-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102653

Himani Vardhan Sharma , Tammy Leonard

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Agricultural commodities’ price transmission from international to local markets in developing countries 发展中国家农产品价格从国际市场传导到当地市场的情况

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102652

Lotanna E. Emediegwu , Marco Rogna

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Who values urban community gardens and how much? 谁重视城市社区菜园，重视程度如何？

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2024-05-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102649

Liqing Li , Dede Long

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Citizens’ perceptions of agricultural policy goals—evidence from Switzerland 公民对农业政策目标的看法--来自瑞士的证据

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102643

Nadja El Benni , Judith Irek , Robert Finger , Gabriele Mack , Jeanine Ammann

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Crises, prices, and poverty – An analysis based on the Mozambican household budget surveys 1996/97–2019/20 危机、价格与贫困--基于 1996/97-2019/20 莫桑比克家庭预算调查的分析

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102651

Vincenzo Salvucci, Finn Tarp

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The role of heterogenous implementation on the uptake and long-term diffusion of agricultural insurance in a pastoral context 牧区农业保险的异质性实施对其吸收和长期推广的作用

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102644

Nathaniel Jensen , Nils Teufel , Rupsha Banerjee , Diba Galgallo , Kelvin Mashisia Shikuku

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An emerging food policy domain: The effects of autonomous transport technologies on food access and consumption 一个新兴的粮食政策领域：自动运输技术对食品获取和消费的影响

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102647

Simone Pettigrew , Leon Booth , Victoria Farrar , Prof Julie Brown , Branislava Godic , Jason Thompson

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Influencing the nutritional quality of grocery purchases: A randomized trial to evaluate the impact of a social norm-based behavioral intervention with and without a loss-framed financial incentive 影响购买食品的营养质量：一项随机试验，评估基于社会规范的行为干预措施在有和没有损失经济激励的情况下的影响

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102646

Soye Shin , Mihir Gandhi , Jyotika Puri , Eric Finkelstein

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Impact of municipality-run discount stalls on price formation across the food supply chain 市营折扣摊位对整个食品供应链价格形成的影响

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102645

Yusuf Emre Akgunduz , Elif Ozcan-Tok

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Food prices and the wages of the poor: A cost-effective addition to high-frequency food security monitoring 粮食价格和穷人的工资：对高频率粮食安全监测的成本效益补充

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Food Policy Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102630

Derek Headey, Fantu Bachewe, Quinn Marshall, Kalyani Raghunathan, Kristi Mahrt

{"title":"Food prices and the wages of the poor: A cost-effective addition to high-frequency food security monitoring","authors":"Derek Headey, Fantu Bachewe, Quinn Marshall, Kalyani Raghunathan, Kristi Mahrt","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102630","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The affordability of nutritious food for “all people, at all times” is a critically important dimension of food security. Yet surprisingly, timely high-frequency indicators of food affordability are rarely collected in any systematic fashion despite price volatility emerging as major source of food insecurity in the 21st Century. The 2008 global food crisis prompted international agencies to invest heavily in monitoring domestic food prices in low and middle income countries (LMICs). However, food price monitoring is not sufficient for measuring changes in diet affordability; for that, one must also measure changes either in income or in an income proxy. We propose using the wages of unskilled workers as a cheap and sufficiently accurate income proxy, especially for the urban and rural non-farm poor. We first outline alternative measures of “food wage” indices, defined as wages deflated either by consumer food price indices or novel healthy diet cost indices. We then discuss the conceptual strengths and limitations of food wages. Finally, we examine patterns and trends in different types of real food wage series during well-known food price crises in Ethiopia (2008, 2011 and 2022), Sri Lanka (2022) and Myanmar (2022). In all these instances, food wages declined by 20–30%, often in the space of a few months. In Myanmar, the decline in real wages during 2022 closely matches declines in household disposable income. We strongly advocate tracking the wages of the poor as a timely, accurate and cost-effective means of monitoring food affordability for important segments of the world’s poor.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":"125 ","pages":"Article 102630"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306919224000411/pdfft?md5=5ee1ad1acff47488b7330f6911dee7fb&pid=1-s2.0-S0306919224000411-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140824273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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