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Are determinants of rural and urban food security and nutritional status different?

Garrett, James L.; Ruel, Marie T. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1999

Undernutrition of children 0-60 months old in Mozambique is much higher in rural than in urban areas. Food security is about the same, although substantial regional differences exist. Given these outcomes, we hypothesized that the determinants of food security and nutritional status in rural and...

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Some urban facts of life

Ruel, Marie T.; Haddad, Lawrence James; Garrett, James L. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1999

This review of recent literature explores the challenges to urban food and nutrition security in the rapidly urbanizing developing world. The premise of the manuscript is that the causes of malnutrition and food insecurity in urban and rural areas are different due primarily to a number of...

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Urban challenges to food and nutrition security

Ruel, Marie T.; Garrett, James L.; Morris, Saul Sutkover; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1998

This review of recent literature explores the urban face of food and nutrition security in a more comprehensive, integrated way than most previous efforts. The review is organized around a conceptual framework that identifies food insecurity, inadequate caring behaviors, and poor health as the...

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Urban livelihoods and food and nutrition security in Greater Accra, Ghana:

Maxwell, Daniel G.; Levin, Carol E.; Armar-Klemesu, Margaret - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2000

Accra offers a compelling case study of the contemporary impact of urban life on the livelihoods, food security, and nutritional status of its people. The Accra Urban Food and Nutrition Study was a collaborative effort between IFPRI, the Noguchi Institute of Medical Research, and the World...

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Dietary diversity as a food security indicator

Hoddinott, John; Yohannes, Yisehac - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2002

Household food security is an important measure of well-being. Although it may not encapsulate all dimensions of poverty, the inability of households to obtain access to enough food for an active, healthy life is surely an important component of their poverty. Accordingly, devising an...

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Dietary diversity as a food security indicator

Hoddinott, John; Yohannes, Yisehac - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2002

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Why don't households invest in latrines: Health, prestige, or safety?

Gross, Elena; Günther, Isabel - 2014

70 percent of the rural population in sub-Saharan Africa does not use adequate sanitation facilities. In rural Benin …, as much as 95 percent of the population has no access to improved sanitation. This paper explores why households remain … play the most decisive role for sanitation demand and ownership. At current income levels, sanitation coverage will only …

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Why don’t households invest in latrines : health, prestige, or safety?

Groß, Elena; Günther, Isabel - 2014

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Understanding the rapid reduction of undernutrition in Nepal, 2001 - 2011

Headey, Derek D.; Hoddinott, John - 2014

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Measuring childcare practices : approaches, indicators, and impliations for programs

Ruel, Marie T. (contributor); Arimond, Mary (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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