IFPRI--training material

Economía de los Alimentos (Food Economics)
Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina and IFPRI Course. October 15-26, 2001.

Reading Materials -- Condensed List
    1. Timmer, C, W. Falcon, and S. Pearson. 1983. "Chapter 1: Introduction to Food Policy Analysis," in Food Policy Analysis. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.
    2. Lipsey, Courant, Ragan. 1999. "Chapter 4: Demand, supply, and Price," in Economics 12th ed. Addison Wesley Longman, Inc.
    3. Lipsey, Courant, Ragan. 1999. "Chapter 5: Elasticity," in Economics 12th ed. Addison Wesley Longman, Inc.
    4. Waterfield, C. 1985. "Disaggregating Food Consumption Parameters: Designing Targeted Nutritional Interventions. Food Policy. 10(4):337-351.
    5. Schneider, R. 1988. "A Framework for Analyzing Food Subsidies". World Development. 16(7):835-845.
    6. Kumar, S. and H. Alderman. 1988. "Food Consumption and Nutrition Effects of Consumer-Oriented Food Subsidy Programs" in Food Subsidies in Developing Countries: Costs, benefits and Policy Options. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
    7. Babu, S.C. and W. Reidhead. 2000. Poverty, Food Security, and Nutrition in Central Asia: A Case Study of the Kyrgyz Republic. Food Policy. 25(6):647-660.
    8. Datt, G., D. Jolliffe, and M. Sharma. 1998. A Profile of Poverty in Egypt: 1997. Food Consumption and Nutrition Division Discussion Paper No. 49. Washington DC: International Food Policy Research Institute.
    9. Ahmed, A. 2000. "Targeted Distribution," in Out of the Shadow of Famine, ed. R. Ahmed, S. Haggblade, and T. Chowdhury. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
    10. Haddad, L., C. Peña, C. Nishida, A. Quisumbing, and A. Slack. 1996. Food Security and Nutrition Implications of Intrahousehold Bias: A review of the literature. Food Consumption and Nutrition Division Discussion Paper 19. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute.
    11. von Braun, J. and M. D.C. Immink. 1994. "Nontraditional Vegetable Crops and Food Security Among Smallholder Farmers in Guatemala," in Agricultural Commercialization, Economic Development, and Nutrition. ed. J. von Braun, E. Kennedy Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
    12. Mexico: "Is PROGRESA Working? Summary of the Results of an Evaluation by IFPRI, September 1, 2000.
      English (PDF 119K)  |  Spanish (PDF 123K)
    13. De Janvry, A. and S. Subramanian. 1993. "Political Economy of Food and Nutrition Policies," in The Politics and Economics of Food and Nutrition Policies Program: An Interpretation. ed. P. Pinstrup-Andersen. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.
    14. Pinstrup-Andersen, P. 1988. "Macroeconomic Adjustment and Human Nutrition". Food Policy. 13(1):37-46.
    15. Hammer, W. C. K., 1999. Food Trade and Implementation of the SPS and TBT Agreements: Current Status of Food Trade, including Food Quality and Safety Problems. Paper presented at the Conference on International Food Trade Beyond 2000: Science-Based Decisions, Harmonization, Equivalence and Mutual Recognition, October 11-15, 1999, Melbourne, Australia. FAO, Rome. (accessed July 2001).

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