Implications of Transgenic Rice for Farm Households' Nutritional Vulnerability: Projections for Bangladesh

Yan Liang, Dixie Watts Reaves and George Norton
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Dixie Watts Dalton

No 9748, 2007 Annual Meeting, July 29-August 1, 2007, Portland, Oregon from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: This paper employs multivariate regression to forecast the calorie intake of Bangladeshi farm households in the hunger season based on the household income, production, and demographic composition in the current (post harvest) season. Nutritional vulnerability profiles are derived from the estimation of ex ante mean and variance of future consumption. The results show the income increase induced by introducing transgenic rice will reduce each individual household's probability of suffering a future consumption shortfall and its vulnerability. The overall vulnerability profile of farm households improves in Bangladesh.

Keywords: Food; Security; and; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.9748

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