The Global Food Crisis and Guatemala: What Crisis and for Whom?

被引：36
作者：
de Janvry, Alain [1 ]
Sadoulet, Elisabeth [1 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
来源：
WORLD DEVELOPMENT | 2010年 / 38卷 / 09期
关键词：
food; prices; poverty; Guatemala; Latin America; POVERTY; PRICES;
D O I：
10.1016/j.worlddev.2010.02.008
中图分类号：
F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号：
0201 ; 020105 ; 03 ; 0303 ;
摘要：
International food prices rose sharply during 2006-2008, precipitating the "global food crisis." We analyze the welfare effects of changes in prices over categories of households in Guatemala and find three surprising results. The first is that the transmission of international into domestic prices was quite modest. The second is that most farm households are net buyers of food implying that they lost from rising prices. The third is that farm households represent two-thirds of all poor households losing from rising food prices, stressing the importance of production for home consumption in sheltering the poor from the crisis. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码：1328 / 1339
页数：12
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