Food Aid Projections for the Decade of the 1990s.

Food Aid Projections for the Decade of the 1990s.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Staff, National Research Council
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington : National Academies Press, 1900.
Subjects:
Food relief > Forecasting.
Food supply > Forecasting.
Food relief > Forecasting
Food supply > Forecasting
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Table of Contents:
  • ""Food Aid Projections for the Decade of the 1990s""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""PRINCIPAL FINDINGS""; ""DEFINITIONS OF FOOD AID""; ""METHODOLOGIES""; ""DEMOGRAPHIC CONSIDERATIONS""; ""NUTRITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS""; ""ESTIMATES COMPARED""; ""SHOCKS THAT COULD AFFECT FUTURE PROJECTIONS""; ""Weather and Climate""; ""Other External Factors""; ""Food Aid Projections for the 1990s: Workshop Proceedings""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""DEFINITIONS""; ""METHODOLOGY""; ""FOOD COMMODITY TRADE AND AID FORECASTING""; ""OUTPUT OF THE MODELS""
  • ""PRESENTATION OF THE IFPRI FIGURES""""Hannah Ezekiel, International Food Policy Research Institute""; ""PRESENTATION OF FAO FIGURES""; ""Richard Perkins, Commodities and Trade Division""; ""PRESENTATION OF WORLD BANK FIGURES""; ""Ronald Duncan, International Commodity Markets Division""; ""PRESENTATION OF THE FAPRI FIGURES""; ""W. Meyers, Center for Agriculture and Rural Development, Iowa State University""; ""PRESENTATION OF USDA FIGURES""; ""R. Nightingale and R. Trostle, Economic Research Service""; ""PRESENTATION OF IIASA FIGURES""; ""K. Frohberg, OECD, Paris""
  • ""MACROECONOMIC CONTEXT COMMENTARY""""Lawrence Klein, Economics Department, University of Pennsylvania""; ""DEMOGRAPHIC CONSIDERATIONS COMMENTARY""; ""Robert Chen, Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Program""; ""NUTRITIONAL CONTEXT COMMENTARY""; ""Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Food and Nutrition Policy Program, Cornell University""; ""TECHNICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CONTEXT""; ""Donald Plucknett, Senior Scientific Adviser, World Bank""; ""CLIMATIC IMPACT CONTEXT""; ""Norman J. Rosenberg, Climate Resources Program, Resources for the Future""; ""CLIMATE CHANGE""; ""DROUGHT IMPACT""
  • ""AFRICAN REGIONAL CONTEXT""""Christopher Delgado, IFPRI""; ""ESTIMATING FOOD AID""; ""Estimates""; ""USDA Projection to 2000""; ""World Bank Projection""; ""IIASA/BLS Estimate""; ""IFPRI Estimate""; ""Nutritional Need Estimates""; ""FAO Estimate""; ""POINTS OF CONSENSUS REACHED BY THE WORKSHOP""; ""REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""Appendix A Medium Term Estimates of Demand-Based Food Aid Requirements and Their Variability ""; ""1 INTRODUCTION""; ""Scope of Study""; ""Nature of Food Aid""; ""Estimation of Food Aid Requirements""; ""The Basic Model""
  • ""Cereal Exports and Commercial Cereal Imports""""Changes in Scope and Methodology""; ""2 TREND ESTIMATES""; ""High and Low Estimates""; ""The Basic Estimate""; ""Food Aid and Commercial Imports""; ""Food Aid Needs by Country Income Class""; ""Food Aid for Low Income Countries and Commercial Imports""; ""3 VARIABILITY OF FOOD AID REQUIREMENTS""; ""Variability in Individual Countries""; ""Variability in Country Groups""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Appendix B Food Aid Requirements of Developing Countries ""; ""Results of the Reference Run""; ""Impact of Trade Liberalization on Hunger""

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