{"id":10144,"date":"2014-05-14T05:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T09:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=10144"},"modified":"2014-05-11T13:09:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T17:09:51","slug":"from-the-latest-issue-of-food-policy-dietary-diversity-in-malawi-farmer-groups-in-nigeria-food-price-shocks-in-kenya-food-security-in-the-arab-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/10144","title":{"rendered":"From the Latest Issue of Food Policy: Dietary Diversity in Malawi, Farmer Groups in Nigeria, Food Price Shocks in Kenya, Food Security in the Arab World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/FoodPolicy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/FoodPolicy.jpg\" alt=\"FoodPolicy\" width=\"198\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I began a three-year term as associate editor over at\u00a0<em>Food Policy<\/em>\u00a0at the end of last year, which means that I handle submissions in my areas of expertise, deciding which manuscripts get reviewed and which ones get desk rejected, selecting reviewers for those manuscripts that do get reviewed, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, I wanted to feature a few articles from the latest issue of the journal. There is nothing special about those articles beyond the fact that I thought they would be of interest to readers of this blog.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Jones et al. (Food Policy, 2014)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0306919214000256\" target=\"_blank\">Farm production diversity is associated with greater household dietary diversity in Malawi: Findings from nationally representative data<\/a><\/strong>, by\u00a0Andrew D. Jones et al.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We model the influence of farm production diversity (FPD) on dietary diversity (DD)<\/li>\n<li>We measure FPD using the Simpson\u2019s Index, a metric of species richness and evenness.<\/li>\n<li>FPD was consistently positively associated with DD.<\/li>\n<li>FPD was especially strongly associated with consumption of legumes and vegetables.<\/li>\n<li>Gender, wealth, and control of decisionmaking influence the FPD\/DD relationship.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Liverpool-Tasie (Food Policy, 2014)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0306919214000086\" target=\"_blank\">Farmer groups and input access: When membership is not enough<\/a><\/strong>, by Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool-Tasie.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We analyze a fertilizer voucher program administered differently in two Nigerian states.<\/li>\n<li>We model the process of participation in the voucher program separately from the extent of participation.<\/li>\n<li>How groups were used to distribute inputs affected the amount of fertilizer participants received.<\/li>\n<li>Better connected farmers received more fertilizer when distribution was done at group level.<\/li>\n<li>Though groups are useful for coordination, input distribution at the individual level is preferred.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Dawe and Maltsoglou (Food Policy, 2014)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0306919214000025\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Marketing margins and the welfare analysis of food price shocks<\/strong><\/a>, by David Dawe and Irini Maltsoglou.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Marketing costs matter for assessing welfare impacts of food price increases.<\/li>\n<li>Assuming proportional marketing costs is biased to finding negative impacts.<\/li>\n<li>The bias from assuming proportional marketing costs is large in many cases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Grace et al. (Food Policy, 2014)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0306919214000244\" target=\"_blank\">Examining the link between food prices and food insecurity: A multi-level analysis of maize price and birthweight in Kenya<\/a><\/strong>, by Kathryn Grace et al.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We model low birth weight as a response to food price.<\/li>\n<li>In the model we incorporate local food production estimates and household data.<\/li>\n<li>Food price increases during pre-pregnancy correlate with reduced low birth weight.<\/li>\n<li>Food prices and production interact to impact birth weight outcomes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Maystadt et al. (Food Policy, 2014)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0306919214000074\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Does food security matter for transition in Arab countries?<\/strong><\/a>, by Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Maystadt et al.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Based on a dataset from 1960 to 2010, we assess the main determinants of conflicts in the Arab world.<\/li>\n<li>Food security, threatened by price shocks, emerges as the main driver of conflicts.<\/li>\n<li>Improving food security is likely to be key for a peaceful transition.<\/li>\n<li>Recommended policy options include establishing safeguard mechanisms against excessive price volatility, supporting pro-poor growth, and the expanding social safety nets and targeted nutrition programs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I began a three-year term as associate editor over at\u00a0Food Policy\u00a0at the end of last year, which means that I handle submissions in my areas<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/10144\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From the Latest Issue of Food Policy: Dietary Diversity in Malawi, Farmer Groups in Nigeria, Food Price Shocks in Kenya, Food Security in the Arab World<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-2DC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10147,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10144\/revisions\/10147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}