Search Results - subject:"micronutrients"

Entitlement Failure from a Food Quality Perspective: The Life and Death Role of Vitamins and Minerals in Humanitarian Crises

Webb, Patrick; Thorne-Lyman, Andrew - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006

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Micronutrients in Emergencies

Webb, Patrick; Thorne-Lyman, Andrew - Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition … - 2005

empowering beneficiaries with knowledge related to the importance of micronutrients, food sources of those micronutrients, and …

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Recent developments in modifying crops and agronomic practice to improve human health

Zhao, Fang-Jie; Shewry, Peter R. - In: Food Policy 36 (2011) S1, pp. 94-94

Malnutrition of micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) affects more than two billion people worldwide, especially in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011051597

Recent developments in modifying crops and agronomic practice to improve human health

Zhao, Fang-Jie; Shewry, Peter R. - In: Food Policy 36 (2011) Supplement 1, pp. 94-94

Malnutrition of micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) affects more than two billion people worldwide, especially in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008861411

Did Indonesia's Cries of 1997/98 Affect Child Nutrition? A Cohort Decomposition Analysis of National Nutrition Surveillance Data

Block, Steven A.; Keiss, Lynnda; Webb, Patrick; Kosen, S.; … - Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition … - 2002

This study uses a new survey of households in rural Central Java to assess the nutritional impact of Indonesia’s drought and financial crisis of 1997/98. Applying an econometric approach that distinguishes between time, age, and cohort effects to a data set with more frequent time observations...

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Intrahousehold Dimensions of Micronutrient Deficiencies: A Review of the Evidence

Webb, Patrick - Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition … - 2002

assessing deficiencies need to be re-examined in light of multiple interactions among micronutrients, on the one hand, and among …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622881

Can food-based strategies help reduce vitamin A and iron deficiencies?

Ruel, Marie T. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001

Micronutrient malnutrition is still a problem of unacceptable proportions in developing countries. Iron and vitamin A deficiencies are the most widespread nutrition deficiencies in the world today, affecting perhaps as many as 3.5 billion people..... Food-based approaches are essential to the...

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Modelling variety in consumption expenditure on food in India

Jha, Raghbendra; Gaiha, Raghav; Sharma, Anurag - In: International review of applied economics 23 (2009) 4, pp. 503-519

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The impact of conditional cash transfer programmes on child nutrition: a review of evidence using a programme theory framework

Leroy, Jef; Ruel, Marie; Verhofstadt, Ellen - In: Journal of Development Effectiveness 1 (2009) 2, pp. 103-129

The authors reviewed the evidence regarding the impact of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes on child nutrition outcomes, using a programme theory framework. They developed a programme impact model and synthesised evidence regarding the pathways through which CCTs may improve child...

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Modelling variety in consumption expenditure on food in India

Jha, Raghbendra; Gaiha, Raghav; Sharma, Anurag - In: International Review of Applied Economics 23 (2009) 4, pp. 503-519

micronutrients (calcium, thiamine, riboflavin, carotene and iron) using an all-India sample of rural households for 1994. We show …

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