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Where are Food Prices Heading

Author: 
Claire Schaffnit-Chatterjee

Food prices are reaching record highs, which raises concerns about spending capacity, hunger, political turmoil and global growth. The current surge in food prices is due to the combination of short-term supply shocks and longer-term structural factors leading to a tight demand-supply balance. In this paper we review the main considerations regarding food price movements and include a discussion on the impact of speculation.

Organization: 
Deutsche Bank Research
Publication Date: 
2011
Online Location: 
http://www.dbresearch.com/
Number of Pages: 
15
Language: 
English
Region: 
Global
Country: 
Global
Document: 
application/pdf iconWhere are Food Prices Heading.pdf


Horn of Africa Risk Transfer for Adaptation (HARITA) quarterly report: October 2010–December 2010

Author: 
Oxfam America

In its two years of delivery in five villages in Ethiopia, HARITA has shown promising results for replication. More than 1,300 households currently participate in HARITA, up from 200 in its first year. In large part, the success in uptake is due to a critical design element that allows the poorest farmers to pay for their insurance premiums through their labor.

Type of Risk: 
All
Type of Risk management option: 
Risk Transfer
Organization: 
Oxfam America
Publication Date: 
2011
Online Location: 
http://www.oxfamamerica.org/publications/horn-of-africa-risk-transfer-for-adapta...
Number of Pages: 
20
Language: 
English
Region: 
Africa
Country: 
United States
Document: 
application/pdf iconharita-quarterly-report-oct-dec-2010-screen.pdf


Modernizing Extension and Advisory Services project

Image: 
image/jpeg iconMEAS-painting_larger.JPG
Organization’s Acronym: 
MEAS
Web Address: 
http://www.meas-extension.org
Address: 
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign College of ACES MEAS Project 213 Mumford Hall, MC 710
State: 
Illinois
Zip: 
61801
Country: 
Global
Areas of Work: 
Capacity building/training/research
Contact information to be listed with profile: 

Andrea Bohn

Email address: 
[email protected]


aWhere, Inc.

Organization’s Acronym: 
aWhere
Web Address: 
http://www.awhere.com
Address: 
Wheat Ridge
State: 
Denver, CO
Zip: 
80033
Country: 
Global
Areas of Work: 
Weather risk management
Areas of Work: 
Other
Brief summary of organization’s risk management work: 

aWhere, Inc. is a data management company who has created a web based location intelligence platform, which provides visualization and data analysis tools to help organizations manage risk. Additionally, the Platform offers free, interactive access to weather data, which enables agricultural practitioners to better manage risk and make evidence-based decisions based on historical, current day, and forecasted weather data and weather alerts.

Contact information to be listed with profile: 

Lizzy Leighty
Communications and Marketing, aWhere, Inc.
[email protected]

Email address: 
[email protected]


Validation and promotion of rice ShB management

Region: 
South Asia
Country: 
Bangladesh
Website Link: 
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/9007/Default.aspx
Description: 

Validation and promotion of te

Project Date: 
Sun, 01/02/2005
Organization: 
Natural Resources Institute
Warwick Horticultural Research International


Water and Food Challenge Programme

Region: 
Global
Country: 
Brazil
Country: 
Japan
Country: 
Philippines
Country: 
Sweden
Country: 
Uganda
Country: 
United States of America
Website Link: 
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/60685/Default.aspx
Description: 

In developing countries, wa

Project Date: 
Tue, 04/01/2008
Organization: 
Challenge Program on Water and Food Secretariat


Under what circumstances and conditions does adoption of technology result in increased agricultural productivity?

Region: 
Global
Country: 
Global
Website Link: 
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/60857/Default.aspx
Description: 

New technology that enables

Project Date: 
Sat, 05/07/2011
Organization: 
Africa Rice Center (formerly West Africa Rice Development Association)
Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex


To investigate the opportunities and constraints faced by resource-poor farmers in the humid lowlands of West Africa (HULWA) in investing in the planting and improvement of indigenous trees for income generation.

Region: 
Africa
Country: 
Cameroon
Country: 
Ghana
Country: 
Nigeria
Website Link: 
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/Project/2088/Default.aspx
Description: 

Povery of the rural resource-p

Project Date: 
Mon, 01/12/1998
Organization: 
Campden and Chorleywood Food Research Association
Center for International Forestry Research, Cameroon
Institut de Recherche Agricole pour le Developpment de Cameroun
Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, Cameroon
Natural Resources International Limited
Overseas Development Institute