Subsistence farming as a safety net for food-price shocks

@article{Janvry2011SubsistenceFA,
  title={Subsistence farming as a safety net for food-price shocks},
  author={Alain de Janvry and E. Sadoulet},
  journal={Development in Practice},
  year={2011},
  volume={21},
  pages={472 - 480}
}
  • Alain de Janvry, E. Sadoulet
  • Published 2011
  • Economics
  • Development in Practice
    • Governments need the capacity to manage price instability and its social consequences; but in countries where people suffer most, they are least able to respond, because of limited fiscal and institutional resources. This article argues that policies used by middle- and high-income countries are unsuitable for poorer, agricultural countries; it recommends instead that these nations promote broader access to land and raise land productivity. The authors explain why instruments used by richer… CONTINUE READING
    View on Taylor & Francis
    are.berkeley.edu
    39 Citations
    Highly Influencial Citations
    1
    Background Citations
    16
    39 Citations
    Citation Type

    Citation Type

    Underwriting Food Security the Urban Way: Lessons from African Countries
    • 10
    • PDF
    Factors Contributing to Low Productivity and Food Insecurityin Bungoma County, Kenya
    • 1
    • PDF
    A Case for Institutional Demand as Effective Social Protection: Supporting Smallholders Through Procurement and Food Assistance Programmes
    • PDF
    Bearing risk is hard to do: crop price risk transfer for poor farmers and low-income countries
    • 4
    Explaining low yields and low food production in Cameroon: a farmers’ perspective
    • 2
    Mining, rural livelihoods and food security: A disaggregated analysis of sub-Saharan Africa
    • 3
    • PDF
    COMMERCIALIZATION EFFECTS ON HOUSEHOLD INCOME, POVERTY, AND DIVERSIFICATION: A COUNTERFACTUAL ANALYSIS OF MAIZE FARMERS IN KENYA
    Best practice for rural food security projects in Southern Africa?
    • 7
    Framing the food poverty question: Policy choices and livelihood consequences in Indonesia
    • 9
    Commercial agriculture for food security? The case of oil palm development in northern Guatemala

    References

    SHOWING 1-10 OF 15 REFERENCES
    Stabilizing food markets in eastern and southern Africa
    • 137
    How Far Has Africa Come in Reducing its Anti-agricultural Policy Bias?
    • 3
    • PDF
    Food price methodology-1-Methodological Note : Estimating the Effects of the Food Price Surge on the Welfare of the Poor
    • 15
    • PDF
    Development Dimensions of High Food Prices
    • 69
    • PDF
    Risk Rationing and Wealth Effects in Credit Markets: Theory and Implications for Agricultural Development
    • 252
    • PDF
    World development report 2008 : agriculture for development
    • 3,567
    • PDF
    Speech at the World Food Security Summit, in Rome, June 6, 2008
    • 3
    • Highly Influential
    • PDF
    World Bank Group President's Speech to Rome World Food Security Summit
    • 2008
    World Bank Group President's Speech to Rome World Food Security Summit The authors
    • World Bank Group President's Speech to Rome World Food Security Summit The authors
    • 2008
    Sadoulet are professors of agricultural and resource economics at the University of California at Berkeley. ,alain@berkeley.edu. ,esadoulet@berkeley.edu. 480 Development in Practice
    • Sadoulet are professors of agricultural and resource economics at the University of California at Berkeley. ,alain@berkeley.edu. ,esadoulet@berkeley.edu. 480 Development in Practice
    • 2011