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El Niño and cereal production shortfalls

Policies for resilience and food security in 2016 and beyond

By: Dorosh, Paul A.,Kennedy, Adam,Torero, Máximo

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El Niño and cereal production shortfalls

Policies for resilience and food security in 2016 and beyond

By: Dorosh, Paul A.,Kennedy, Adam,Torero, Máximo

The current El Niño episode may be among the strongest on record (Earth Institute 2015). This year again, serious localized production shortfalls have occurred or are expected, creating an urgent need for policy actions to ensure adequate food supply and food mobility from surplus to deficit regions. Although global cereal production is not expected to decline significantly, complacency is not warranted: The situation calls for careful monitoring of production and prices, promotion of transparent international and domestic trade policies, and expanded coverage of safety nets and nutrition programs for the households most severely affected, all while working toward long-term improvements in resilience and agricultural production.

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Intl Food Policy Res Inst

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0896299880

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Privatization for the Public Good?

Welfare Effects of Private Intervention in Latin America

By: Felipe Barrera-Osorio,Virgilio Galdo,Ernesto Schargrodsky,Sebastián Galiani,Martín González Rozada,Eduardo Nakasone,Alberto E. Chong,Elizabeth Coombs,Martín Gonzalez-Eiras,Máximo Torero,Lorena Alcázar,Mauricio Olivera,Paul E. Carrillo,Martín Rossi,Orazio J. Bellettini Cedeño

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Privatization for the Public Good?

Welfare Effects of Private Intervention in Latin America

This book provides a detailed microeconomic analysis of the impact of various privatizations in different countries in the region. Its central message is that in many cases, contrary to popular belief, society as a whole and in particular the poor have benefited from privatization. The book presents a careful analysis of the various mechanisms through which privatization has an impact on welfare, an analysis that by and large has been missing from the debate. Case studies of water sector privatization in Argentina and Colombia, and also the telecom industry in Peru are included.

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Inter-American Development Bank

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1597820601

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9781597820608

Synopsis, Innovation for inclusive value-chain development

Successes and challenges

By: Devaux, André,Torero, Máximo,Donovan, Jason,Horton, Douglas

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Synopsis, Innovation for inclusive value-chain development

Successes and challenges

By: Devaux, André,Torero, Máximo,Donovan, Jason,Horton, Douglas

With roughly three-quarters of the world’s poor living in rural areas, addressing global poverty requires paying attention to rural populations, especially smallholder farmers in developing countries. Millions of smallholders and others among the developing world’s poor, including a large proportion of women, participate as producers, laborers, traders, processors, retailers, or consumers in agricultural value chains. A value chain refers to the set of interlinked agents that produce, transform, and market the products that consumers are prepared to purchase (see Figure 1 for an outline of a stylized value chain). Improving the performance of agricultural value chains has the potential to benefit large numbers of low-income and poor people. Innovation for Inclusive Value-Chain Development: Successes and Challenges assesses how to improve agricultural value chains, particularly value chains that include smallholders.

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Intl Food Policy Res Inst

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0896299775

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9780896299771

Promoting competition in the fertilizer industry in Africa: A global and local approach

By: Hernandez, Manuel A.,Torero, Maximo

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Promoting competition in the fertilizer industry in Africa: A global and local approach

By: Hernandez, Manuel A.,Torero, Maximo

Given the central role that agriculture plays in the rural economy of Africa, several countries have implemented supply– and demand-driven policies and programs to promote sustainable fertilizer use, with mixed results. However, not much has been said about the market structure or competitive behavior along the supply chain in the highly concentrated fertilizer industry, nor about how this affects fertilizer uptake in the region. Globally, the industry has only a few producers, and African countries are highly and increasingly dependent on imported fertilizer. Locally, fertilizer distribution channels are also characterized by a limited number of market actors, often with a poor dealer network.

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El Niño and cereal production shortfalls

El Niño and cereal production shortfalls

Privatization for the Public Good?

Privatization for the Public Good?

Synopsis, Innovation for inclusive value-chain development

Synopsis, Innovation for inclusive value-chain development

Promoting competition in the fertilizer industry in Africa: A global and local approach

Promoting competition in the fertilizer industry in Africa: A global and local approach

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