Regional differences pose challenges for food security policy : a case study of India
Caste ; Diet ; Economic development ; Economic growth ; Food security ; Health ; Household ; India ; Regional disparities ; Regional economy ; Religion
This paper examines factors affecting the calorie gap by considering the risk of calorie inadequacy or excess at the tails of food intakes. First, the calorie gap was found to respond differently to various socio-economic characteristics, social
assistance programmes, as well as caste and religion. Second, these impacts depended on rural/urban differences and at other times on the development of rural/urban differences and at other times on the development of the states. These findings pose
significant challenges towards achieving a balanced regional food security policy.
Prices of food products in Polish Territory as index of climatic oscillations in the Little Ice Age
The results of studies of three different authors made it possible to plot for Cracow a diagram of prices expressed by a silver equivalent, comprising the period 1369-1914. Besides general tendencies depending on economic conditions, long-term
Drought ; Economic strategy ; Famine;Starvation ; Food ; Food security ; Rural community ; Standard of living ; Sudan
Households are vulnerable not only because their crops fail, livestock die or are sold to meet the rising cost of grain, but also because community cohesion and the resources upon which the cohesive mechanisms depend diminish. The notion of failure
Black Africa ; Caste ; Congo ; Economic dependency ; Fooddependency ; India ; Poverty ; Regional pathology ; Residential segregation ; Town ; Tropical zone ; Urbanization
Contenu : M. Rosciszewski, Geographical space and the contemporary scientific and technical revolution| Z. Siemek, Contemporary trends of world urbanization and the concept of unilinear development| W. Rozlucki, Food systems : conceptual bonds
and spatial extent| P. Szeliga, The concept of economic dependance as a universal phenomenon| F. Szlajfer, The formation of socio-economic space of developing countries in terms of dependent development. The Latin American case| B. Czyz, Economic links
Agricultural policy ; Agricultural resources ; Agriculture ; Cultivated surface ; Fooddependency ; Food production ; India
La réussite économique indienne dépend principalement de l'utilisation appropriée de la terre et de ressources humaines engagées dans l'agriculture. L'agriculture occupe une position-clé dans l'économie du pays et son efficacité reste au centre des
Administration ; Agricultural production ; Development ; Food security ; Geopolitics ; Governance ; Lesotho ; Sustainable development
This paper argues that the search for sustainable development in Lesotho for the 21st century, amongst others, must be sought in the reduction of foreign economic dependence and manpower and administrative inefficiencies. Furthermore
Aborigines ; Adaptation ; Australia ; Exploration ; Food ; Food habit ; Historical geography ; Nineteenth Century ; Self-sufficiency in food
of kangaroo dogs, the willingness to consume even the least appetising animals made explorers less dependent on what they could carry. Such skills were to become largely irrelevant after 1840, as fully mounted expeditions began to penetrate the interior, where
The potato in Ireland’s evolving agrarian landscape and agri-food system
Agribusiness ; Agricultural production ; Consumption ; Cultivated plants ; Economic geography ; Famine ; Food production ; Food security ; Ireland ; Nineteenth Century ; Spatial distribution ; Subsistence agriculture ; Twenty-first century
The time from the introduction of the potato c. 1600 to its catastrophic decline in the mid-1800s, represented a period of Irish agriculture distinctly at odds with what came before and after, involving as it did complete dependence on a single crop
the highly mechanised, specialised, intensive and market-oriented agri-industrial food systems of today. This new high input-high output system was accompanied by an expansion in environmental impacts extending from local to global scales. This article
The objectives of this study was to find out, whether the regional origin of food products has an influence for consumers' decision. The research was undertaken in 1997 in three German regions by a direct consumer survey including attitude measuring
. The data were analysed by means of a factor- and a cluster analysis. The main findings were : the regional product was bought out of preference by the majority of the sample. The intensity of purchase especially depends on the underlying attitude towards
millions are calculated depending on the living standard that is based. Besides the factors food and space that limit the growth of population the problems of pollution are known since industrial times. The growing human population requires a better
technology to supply the demands for food. The technology itself brings about new problems that restrain the growth of population. The zero growth of world population brought above by birth control is regarded as a solution to achieve a longterm population
Innovation and profitability of global food firms. Testing for differences in the influence of the home base
boissons, pays de l'OCDE, période 1969-88 (brevets étrangers et quelques multinationales). Le test donne des résultats satisfaisants. L'impact du pays d'origine n'est pas homogène au sein de la branche. Il dépend de la taille et de l'expérience
Aquaculture ; Aquatic ecosystem ; Development ; Development strategy ; Externalities ; Fish breeding ; Food security ; Mangrove ; Philippines ; Resource management
The A. argues that the discourses of development underpinning aquaculture as a development strategy are flawed because they neglect the impact of fish farming on the local resource base and those social groups dependent upon it. Aquaculture
A connection between respiratory gas-exchange and productivity of Ceratoides eversmanniana (a valuable food plant in Uzbekistan arid zone) has been studied in the dependence on soil moisture regime. An influence of water factor on the change
Appropriation of land ; Consumption ; Cultural identity ; Food trade ; Location choice ; Retail trade ; Social practice ; Territorial identity ; Urban landscape ; Urban practice
The first paper of this issue is on the growth of small independent retailers, their relations of production, and the particularised patterns of consumption on which they depend. The second is on the politics of regulation, retailing and consumption