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This study on food consumption demand in poverty-stricken areas was based on the household data obtained from surveys on six poor counties of Zhen’an and Luonan of Shaanxi Province, Wuding and Huize of Yunnan Province, and Pan and Zheng’an of Guizhou Province, which sponsored by the United Nations – Spain MDG Achievement Fund Joint Programme. Own-price elasticities, cross-price elasticities, expenditure elasticities, and other factors’ impacts to food consumption were estimated with an AIDS model. Wealth Index and Livelihoods clusters were creatively put into the model. Eggs and milk are own-price elastic. Foods substitution due to relative price change is small, except in the case of grain. Most of Foods are expenditure-elastic, and expenditure elasticity of fish is the highest. Household size, education years of labors, whether suffering from disasters or other shocks, economic conditions, regional differences are all more or less influence the food consumption of households.
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Nie, F., Huang, J., Bi, J. (2014). Food Consumption of Households in Poverty-Stricken Areas of West China: The Case of Shaanxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou. In: Xu, S. (eds) Proceedings of 2013 World Agricultural Outlook Conference. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54389-0_7
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