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Those who study global poverty and ways to reduce it face a perennial set of questions: Do advances in knowledge, research, and technology make a real difference in the lives of poor people? What effect does research have on the poor? Who benefits? The contributors to Agricultural Research,...
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requires urgent actions to improve the productivity and climate resilience of agriculture and to upgrade the food value chains …
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shifted away from agriculture-based strategies toward nutrient supplementation and food fortification programs. Given the … potential benefits resulting from agriculture-based nutrition interventions, this study uses Q methodology to explore the views … fortification, and the degree to which agriculture-based approaches have an impact on nutrition. The findings indicate that there is …
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shifted away from agriculture-based strategies toward nutrient supplementation and food fortification programs. Given the … potential benefits resulting from agriculture-based nutrition interventions, this study uses Q methodology to explore the views … fortification, and the degree to which agriculture-based approaches have an impact on nutrition. The findings indicate that there is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997275
Determining the causality between health measures and both income and labor productivity remains an ongoing challenge for economists. This review paper aims to answer the question: Does improved population health lead to higher rates of agricultural growth? In attempting to answer this question,...
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The fundamental purpose of agriculture is not just to produce food and raw materials, but also to grow healthy, well … require closer collaboration across the sectors of agriculture, nutrition, and health, which have long operated in separate … spheres with little recognition of how their actions affect each other. It is time for agriculture, nutrition, and health to …
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Extreme poverty and chronic malnutrition are widespread in rural Tanzania, where smallholder agriculture dominates the … economy. Given the sector's role as the main source of food and livelihood for many malnourished people, agriculture has …, we explore the links between agriculture and nutrition in Tanzania and review the evidence on how these links can be …
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The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) is one of the main components of the New Partnership …
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The fundamental purpose of agriculture is not just to produce food and raw materials, but also to grow healthy, well … require closer collaboration across the sectors of agriculture, nutrition, and health, which have long operated in separate … spheres with little recognition of how their actions affect each other. It is time for agriculture, nutrition, and health to …
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The second of three books in IFPRI's climate change in Africa series, East African Agriculture and Climate Change: A … contributors of East African Agriculture and Climate Change present plausible future scenarios that combine economic and … biophysical characteristics to explore the possible consequences for agriculture, food security, and resources management to 2050 …
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