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FAO ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT PAPER
153
Food Security in the Russian Federation
David Sedik
Economist
FAO Regional Office for Europe
Sergey Sotnikov
Research Fellow
Economics Department
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
United States of America
and
Doris Wiesmann
Research Fellow
Center for Development Research
University of Bonn
Germany
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Rome, 2003
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Table of Contents
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ISSN 0259-2460
ISBN 92-5-105041-4
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Foreword and
acknowledgements
Executive
summary
CHAPTER 1
FOOD SECURITY
Food security and the Russian
transition
Literature on food security and
nutrition and the Russian Federation
CHAPTER 2
FOOD AVAILABILITY
Changes in food availability in the
transition period
Food availability measured by per
capita dietary energy supply
The structure of commodity supply and
use, 1992-1999
The structure of food use,
1992-1999
Russian dietary energy supply in
international comparison
Comparison with other transition
economies
Estimates of food inadequacy from DES
data
Changes in import dependency in the
transition period
Interregional
comparisons
CHAPTER 3
FOOD CONSUMPTION AND INADEQUACY
Sources of food
consumption
Biases of the Goskomstat Household
Survey
Limitations of the AA
survey
Comparison of Goskomstat HBS and AA
survey estimates
Mean income and food
consumption
Food consumption of the
poor
The reasons for food
inadequacy
Food inadequacy by
location
Food inadequacy by family
type
A model of household food
inadequacy
CHAPTER 4
NUTRITION AND FOOD SECURITY
Nutritional status of different
subpopulations in the Russian population
Children
Adults
Indicators of micronutrient
deficiencies
Comparison with nutritional indicators
in other countries
Anthropometric indicators and
poverty
Children
Adults
Public health and diet in the Russian
Federation
Nutrition and health
Trends and determinants of mortality
patterns
Dietary intakes
CHAPTER 5
IMPROVING FOOD SECURITY
REFERENCES
APPENDIX FOOD AVAILABILITY AND
SUPPLY
GLOSSARY OF
TERMS
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