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Where Do Urban Households in Zambia Buy their Livestock Products?
Hichaambwa, Munguzwe - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource …
Livestock products and fish form an important component of urban consumers’ diet accounting for about one third of the total monthly budgetary expenditure on food. The budgetary share of livestock products increases with affluence or household income while the opposite is true for fish; 2) The...
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Urban Consumption Patterns of Livestock Products in Zambia and Implications for Policy
Hichaambwa, Munguzwe - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2012
Rapid urbanization in Zambia means that increasingly heavy demands are being placed on urban food marketing systems …
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Implication of Micronutrients in Agriculture and Health with Special Reference to Iron and Zinc
Govindaraj, M.; Kannan, P.; Arunachalam, P. - In: International Journal of Agricultural Management and … 01 (2011) 4
(WHO) has estimated that over 3 billion people in the globe suffer from the micronutrient malnutrition and about 2 billion …
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Better nutrition for children in Uganda: The policy makers role
Ibrahim, Kasirye - Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) - 2012
age of five suffer from severe acute malnutrition About half a million pregnant and lactating women suffer from anaemia …
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Household and environmental factors influencing anthropometric outcomes in pre-school children in a rural Ethiopian community
Okike, I O; Jabbar, Mohammad A. - International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), … - 2005
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Emerging Challenges for Food and Nutrition Policy in Developing Countries
Stamoulis, Kostas G.; Pingali, Prabhu L.; Shetty, Prakash - In: eJADE: electronic Journal of Agricultural and … 1 (2004) 2
As the income and the average caloric intake of developing country populations increase, a relative shift in diets is taking place. The general pattern of change can be described as a shift towards more 'westernized' diets and away from traditional ones. Accompanying this dietary trend are the...
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Nutrition in Central Uganda - An Estimation of a Minimum Cost Healthy Diet
Badirwang, Keeletlhoko Faith; Nakakeeto, Gertrude; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
This study makes use of linear programming methodology to design a minimum cost diet for the Central Ugandan region. We used a set of constraints on recommended levels of daily nutrient intake, recommended proportions of groups of foods, as well as preferences and food availability in Central...
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Fish as a source of (micro)nutrients to combat hidden hunger in Zambia
Nölle, Nils; Genschick, Sven; Schwadorf, Klaus; Hrenn, … - In: Food Security 12 (2020) 6, pp. 1385-1406
Fish is an excellent source of protein, but can also be a good source of micronutrients. In Zambia fish is the main … aquaculture have been identified as key resources in addressing food and nutrition security issues in Zambia, only limited … to give a quantitative description of the nutritional composition of fish and fish products consumed in Zambia, and to …
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Toward an integrated approach for addressing malnutrition in Zambia : a literature review and institutional analysis
Harris, Jody; Drimie, Scott - 2012
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