Publications

On July 20, 2011, the United Nations declared a famine in Somalia.  Although a major crisis had been predicted in the Horn of Africa for nearly a year, it took the Declaration to mobilize a large-scale response. 2011 was the [...]

Ethiopia has experienced high food prices, especially since 2005. This paper examines the welfare impacts of rising food prices in rural Ethiopia using Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System (QUAIDS) approach controlled for expenditure endogeniety and zero consumption expenditure. The elasticity [...]

Price uncertainty is a major constraint to a sustained increase in staple food production. This paper reviews the trends and patterns of addressing this age-old problem over the course of the past several decades. Farmers in most developed countries and [...]

Como un componente esencial en los esfuerzos por superar la inseguridad alimentaria y el hambre, organizaciones de desarrollo y gobiernos abocados a este esfuerzo necesitan sistemas de evaluación y monitoreo válidos y confiables para así establecer qué intervenciones tienen un [...]

The proposal to develop a Response Analysis Framework for food security in emergencies was grounded in the understanding that whilst situation analysis of food security has improved in recent years,  this has not been systematically translated into more appropriate and [...]