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The short and medium term impacts of rises in staple food prices (2012)
Journal Article
Dorward, A. (2012). The short and medium term impacts of rises in staple food prices. Food Security, 44(4), 633-645. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-012-0210-3

There is widespread concern about the impact of recent price rises on the welfare and food security of poor people and about future impacts of high prices. Responses to these concerns are, however, sometimes clouded by lack of clarity about the natu... Read More about The short and medium term impacts of rises in staple food prices.

The role of expert opinion in environmental modelling (2012)
Journal Article
Krueger, T., Page, T., Hubacek, K., Smith, L., & Hiscock, K. (2012). The role of expert opinion in environmental modelling. Environmental Modelling and Software, 36, 4-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.01.011

The inevitable though frequently informal use of expert opinion in modelling, the increasing number of models that incorporate formally expert opinion from a diverse range of experience and stakeholders, arguments for participatory modelling and anal... Read More about The role of expert opinion in environmental modelling.

Conceptualising seasonal financial market failures and credit rationing in applied rural household models (2012)
Journal Article
Dorward, A. (2012). Conceptualising seasonal financial market failures and credit rationing in applied rural household models. Zeitschrift für ausländische Landwirtschaft, 51(1), 113-133

A wide variety of farm household models have provided a valuable theoretical basis for empirical and conceptual analysis of interactions between production and consumption resource allocations of poor rural people. A weakness of common applications o... Read More about Conceptualising seasonal financial market failures and credit rationing in applied rural household models.

Policies to promote healthy eating in Europe: a structured review of policies and their effectiveness (2012)
Journal Article
Capacci, S., Mazzocchi, M., Brambila-Macias, J., Shankar, B., Traill, B., Perez-Cueto, A., Verbeke, W., Niedźwiedzka, B., Koziol-Kozakowska, A., Kijowska, V., Piorecka, B., D'Addesa, D., Saba, A., Turrini, A., Aschemann-Witzel, J., Bech-Larsen, T., Strand, M., Smillie, L., & Wills, J. (2012). Policies to promote healthy eating in Europe: a structured review of policies and their effectiveness. Nutrition Reviews, 70(3), 188-200. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-4887.2011.00442.x

This review provides a classification of public policies to promote healthier eating as well as a structured mapping of existing measures in Europe. Complete coverage of alternative policy types was ensured by complementing the review with a selectio... Read More about Policies to promote healthy eating in Europe: a structured review of policies and their effectiveness.

Can Public–Private Partnerships Leverage Private Investment in Agricultural Value Chains in Africa? A Preliminary Review (2012)
Journal Article
Poulton, C., & Macartney, J. (2012). Can Public–Private Partnerships Leverage Private Investment in Agricultural Value Chains in Africa? A Preliminary Review. World Development, 40(1), 96-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.05.017

Public–private partnerships (PPPs) may be one way of increasing the level of private sector investment into poorly performing agricultural value chains. This paper considers a range of PPP mechanisms that respond to different market failures affectin... Read More about Can Public–Private Partnerships Leverage Private Investment in Agricultural Value Chains in Africa? A Preliminary Review.

Policy interventions to promote healthy eating: What works, what does not and what is promising: A review (2011)
Journal Article
Brambila-Macias, J., Shankar, B., Traill, B., Mazzocchi, M., Capacci, S., Perez-Cueto, A., & Verbeke, W. (2011). Policy interventions to promote healthy eating: What works, what does not and what is promising: A review. Food and nutrition bulletin (Tokyo. Print), 32(4), 365-375. https://doi.org/10.1177/156482651103200408

Unhealthy diets can lead to various diseases, which in turn can translate into a bigger burden for the state in the form of health services and lost production. Obesity alone has enormous costs and claims thousands of lives every year. Although diet... Read More about Policy interventions to promote healthy eating: What works, what does not and what is promising: A review.

Assessment of evaluations made to healthy eating policies in Europe: a review within the EATWELL Project (2011)
Journal Article
Perez-Cueto, A., Aschemann-Witzel, J., Shankar, B., Brambila-Macias, J., Bech-Larsen, T., Mazzocchi, M., Capacci, S., Saba, A., Turrini, A., Niedźwiedzka, B., Kijowska, V., Piorecka, B., Wills, J., Traill, B., & Verbeke, W. (2012). Assessment of evaluations made to healthy eating policies in Europe: a review within the EATWELL Project. Public Health Nutrition, 15(8), 1489-1496. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980011003107

OBJECTIVE:
To identify and assess healthy eating policies at national level which have been evaluated in terms of their impact on awareness of healthy eating, food consumption, health outcome or cost/benefit.

// DESIGN:
Review of policy document... Read More about Assessment of evaluations made to healthy eating policies in Europe: a review within the EATWELL Project.

The Economic Prospects of the ‘Arab Spring’: A Bumpy Road Ahead (2011)
Journal Article
Hakimian, H. (2011). The Economic Prospects of the ‘Arab Spring’: A Bumpy Road Ahead. Development Viewpoint, 1-2

This Development ViewPoint underscores the underlying importance of the economic conditions facing the new republics, such as Egypt and Tunisia, which are emerging as a result of the ‘Arab Spring’ in the Middle East and North Africa. His analysis sug... Read More about The Economic Prospects of the ‘Arab Spring’: A Bumpy Road Ahead.

The Malawi Agricultural Input Subsidy Programme: 2005-6 to 2008-9 (2011)
Journal Article
Dorward, A., & Chirwa, E. (2011). The Malawi Agricultural Input Subsidy Programme: 2005-6 to 2008-9. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 9(1), 232-247. https://doi.org/10.3763/ijas.2010.0567

Malawi’s implementation of a large scale agricultural input subsidy programme in 2005/6 and subsequent years has attracted significant international interest. This paper reviews the background, processes, achievements and outcomes of the programme ov... Read More about The Malawi Agricultural Input Subsidy Programme: 2005-6 to 2008-9.