Hector E. Maletta

Universidad del Pacífico

Associate Research Scholar

Av Salaverry 2020

Lima, 11

Peru

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Scholarly Papers (34)

1.

From Hunger to Food Security: A Conceptual History (2024 revision)

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 22 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2024
Hector E. Maletta
Universidad del Pacífico
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food security, food insecurity, hunger, food, poverty, vulnerability, agriculture, nutrition, malnutrition

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La Evolución del Homo Economicus: Problemas del Marco de Decisión Racional en Economía (The Evolution of Homo Economicus: Problems of the Rational Decision Framework in Economics)

Economia, Vol. 33, No. 65, pp. 9-68
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 19 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2011
Hector E. Maletta
Universidad del Pacífico
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economic rationality, Homo economicus, utility, Neoclassical Economics, Evolutionary Economics, Behavioural Economics, Institutional Economics

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Bread of the Future: Climate Change, Agriculture and Food in Latin America (El Pan Del Futuro: Cambio Climático, Agricultura Y Alimentación En América Latina)

Debates en Sociología (Lima, Peru), No. 34, pp. 117-176, 2011
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 27 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2014
Hector E. Maletta
Universidad del Pacífico
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climate change, environment, agriculture, food, food security, Latin America, Latin America and Caribbean

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Food and Agriculture in Afghanistan: A Long Term Outlook

AFGHANISTAN - HOW MUCH OF THE PAST IN THE NEW FUTURE, A. Palmisano and G. Ricco, eds., Gorizia, Italy: ISIG, 2007
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 08 Jan 2005
Hector E. Maletta
Universidad del Pacífico
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Afghanistan, agriculture, food production, food security

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Facts and Debates on the Future of the Amazon Forest

Parcerias Estrategicas, (Brasilia, Brazil), No. 30, pp. 77-128 July 2010
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 20 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2012
Hector E. Maletta
Universidad del Pacífico
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Amazon, rainforest, forest, climate change, deforestation, environment, ENSO, El Niño, Brazil, South America, dieback, tipping point

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Sources of Household Income in Rural Afghanistan

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 13 Nov 2006
Hector E. Maletta
Universidad del Pacífico
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Afghanistan, income, monetization, household, rural

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Land and Farm Production: Availability, Use, and Productivity of Agricultural Land in the World

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 22 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 05 Oct 2020
Hector E. Maletta
Universidad del Pacífico
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land, land productivity, agriculture, agricultural productivity, agricultural frontier, arable land, crop land suitability, land use

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A Catastrophe Foretold: Economic Reform, Crisis, Recovery and Employment in Argentina

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 19 May 2006
Hector E. Maletta
Universidad del Pacífico
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Argentina, employment, labor, workfare, economic reform, crisis

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Women at Work: Gender, Wealth, Wages and Employment in Rural Afghanistan, 2002-2003

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 12 Aug 2004
Hector E. Maletta
Universidad del Pacífico
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Gender, women, labour participation, rural economy, Afghanistan

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La Pequeña Agricultura Familiar en el Perú: Una Tipología Microrregionalizada (Small Family Farming in Peru: A Micro-Regionalized Farm Typology)

La Pequeña Agricultura Familiar en el Perú: Una Tipología Microrregionalizada, 2017. Published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Number of pages: 220 Posted: 02 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2023
Hector E. Maletta
Universidad del Pacífico
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smallholders, family farming, farm typology, agroecological micro-regions, Peru

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Trends in World Food Security (Tendencias Mundiales En La Seguridad Alimentaria)

Debate Agrario, Vol. 37, pp. 109-160, 2004
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 15 Oct 2004 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2009
Hector E. Maletta
Universidad del Pacífico
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food security, food supply, food consumption, nutrition, poverty, undernutrition, undernourishment, malnutrition

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Arable Land Tenure in Afghanistan in the Post-Taliban Era

African and Asian Studies, Vol. 6, 2007
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 04 Aug 2006
Hector E. Maletta
Universidad del Pacífico
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Afghanistan, Agriculture, Land tenure, Agrarian structure

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What We Eat: Changing Patterns of Food Consumption Around the World

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 02 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 05 Oct 2020
Hector E. Maletta
Universidad del Pacífico
Downloads 329 (192,309)
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food, food consumption, diet, dietary energy, food security, agriculture, food supply

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Whither the Amazon Forest? A Cold Look at the Impacts of Deforestation and Climate Change

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2017
Hector E. Maletta
Universidad del Pacífico
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environment, forest, Amazon, deforestation, tipping point, Brazil, climate change

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The Economic Importance of Crop Residues in Afghanistan Wheat-Based Farming Systems

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 20 Apr 2006
Hector E. Maletta
Universidad del Pacífico
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Afghanistan, Agriculture, Wheat, Farming systems, Crop residues, Cost of production

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The Grain and the Chaff: Crop Residues and the Cost of Production of Wheat in Afghanistan in a Farming-System Perspective

Number of pages: 86 Posted: 09 Aug 2004
Hector E. Maletta
Universidad del Pacífico
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Wheat, Afghanistan, farming system, cost of production, agriculture

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Hunger Amidst Plenty: World Trends in Undernourishment and Malnutrition

University of the Pacific Discussion Paper
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 01 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 13 May 2021
Hector E. Maletta
Universidad del Pacífico
Downloads 230 (277,473)
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hunger, food security, food, poverty, agriculture, food production, distribution, undernourishment, malnutrition, nutrition

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Condiciones De Vida En La Pequeña Agricultura Familiar Del Perú (Living Conditions in Peru's Smallholder Family Farming)

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 04 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2015
Hector E. Maletta
Universidad del Pacífico
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family farming, Peru, living conditions, agriculture, rural poverty, José María Caballero, LASA

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Rural Poverty and Rural Development in Bolivia (in Spanish)

Number of pages: 84 Posted: 24 Jan 2003
Hector E. Maletta
Universidad del Pacífico
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Latin America, rural poverty, rural development, Bolivia

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Tendencias y Perspectivas de la Agricultura Familiar en América Latina (Trends and Prospects of Family Farming in Latin America)

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 21 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2012
Hector E. Maletta
Universidad del Pacífico
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agriculture, Latin America, family farming, peasant, smallholder

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household, standard of living, measurement, poverty, household assets, livelihood

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true cost of living index, consumer substitution, superlative index, consumer price index, substitution bias, Argentina, PPP, exchange rate

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Sitting Height Ratio, Metabolic Rates, Energy Needs and Undernourishment: A Modelling Approach

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 20 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 07 Nov 2014
Hector E. Maletta
Universidad del Pacífico
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BMI; body mass index; BMR; basal metabolic rate; undernourishment; Sitting Height Ratio; Cormic index; sitting height; nutritional status; dietary energy; Schofield equations

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Wages of War, Wages of Peace: Food Prices and Unskilled Labour Pay in Afghanistan, 1996-2002

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 21 Apr 2003
Hector E. Maletta
Universidad del Pacífico
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Afghanistan, food aid, labor market, wages, food prices

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International Food Price Volatility: Transmission to Domestic Prices and Policy Response in Bolivia and Peru

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 16 Nov 2013
Hector E. Maletta
Universidad del Pacífico
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food, food security, food price, food commodities, food price volatility

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Trends in World Agricultural and Food Trade

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 22 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2020
Hector E. Maletta
Universidad del Pacífico
Downloads 164 (378,330)
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agriculture, trade, food, food commodities, agricultural trade, food security

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household, standard of living, measurement, poverty, household assets, livelihood

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Cereal Self-Sufficiency in Afghanistan Farms (2024 revision)

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 08 May 2006 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2024
Hector E. Maletta
Universidad del Pacífico
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Afghanistan, agriculture, cereal, cereal production, self-sufficiency, food, staple food

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household, standard of living, measurement, poverty, household assets, livelihood

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Recent Latin American Developments in Irrigation

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 10 Nov 2003 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2010
Hector E. Maletta
Universidad del Pacífico
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Latin America, agriculture, irrigation, natural resources, privatisation

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Consumer Substitution, Cost of Living Indices and Exchange Rate in Argentina - First Part: 1960-1995

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 28 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 13 May 2021
Hector E. Maletta
Universidad del Pacífico
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CPI, true cost of living index, consumer substitution, Argentina, purchasing power parity exchange rate, superlative index, Tornqvist index, Vartia index

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La Ciencia Entre Dos Pandemias (1918-2020): Cambios En La Organización De La Actividad Científica Y Su Integración En La Enseñanza (Science Between Two Pandemics (1918–2020): Changes in the Organization of Scientific Activity and Its Integration Into Teaching)

Book published by: Fondo Editorial de la Universidad del Pacifico (University of the Pacific Press], Lima, Peru) and Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica (CONCYTEC), [National Council for Science, Technology and Technological Innovation], Lima, Peru, 2023
Number of pages: 429 Posted: 17 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2024
Hector E. Maletta
Universidad del Pacífico
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science, history of science, science education, 20th century, 21st century, pandemic, institutional organization of research, peer review

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Towards the End of Hunger

"Towards the End of Hunger", by Hector E. Maletta (2016), first ebook edition. Universidad del Pacifico Press. Available through Amazon.
Posted: 10 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 07 Jan 2021
Hector E. Maletta
Universidad del Pacífico

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hunger, food security, agriculture, climate change, poverty

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Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security in Latin America

CLIMATE CHANGE, AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY IN LATIN AMERICA , Multi-Science Publishing, Brentwood, Essex, UK, 2011
Posted: 02 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2014
Hector E. Maletta and Emiliano Maletta
Universidad del Pacífico and Center for Energy, Environment and Technology Research, Madrid, Spain

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climate change, food security, hunger, agriculture, Latin America, Caribbean, impact, adaptation, IPCC, Ricardian models, Integrated Assessment Models