The Impact of Rising Food Prices on the Poor
This paper is a shorter, more recent version of an earlier working paper, and uses RIGA data to describe participation in and income shares from the different income generating activities across rural households in different developing countries.This paper analyzes the household level impact of a price increase in major tradable staple foods in a cross section of developing countries, using nationally representative household surveys from the RIGA database.
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Author: Alberto Zezza
Other authors: Benjamin Davis, Carlo Azzarri,
Katia Covarrubias, Luca Tasciotti and Gustavo Anriquez
Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Year: 2008
Type: Technical paper
Full text available at: http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/riga/pdf/aj284e00.pdf
Content language: English