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Sinopsis: Informe De La Nutricion Mundial 2014: Fortalecer la accion y la responsabilidad para acelerar los progresos en nutricion en el mundo
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); … - 2014
Una buena nutrición es fundamental para promover vidas saludables, medios de subsistencia sólidos y resistentes, y economías prósperas. Sin ella, estos empeños se asientan sobre terreno inestable. Los niños con retraso de crecimiento no pueden crecer ni desarrollarse adecuadamente, y...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132599
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Links between tenure security and food security: Evidence from Ethiopia:
Hagos, Hosaena Ghebru; Holden, Stein - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
This study uses five rounds of household panel data from Tigray, Ethiopia, collected in the period 1998–2010 to assess the impacts of a land registration and certification program that aimed to strengthen tenure security and how it has contributed to increased food availability and, thus,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132632
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Can government-allocated land contribute to food security? Intrahousehold analysis of West Bengal’s microplot allocation program:
Santos, Florence; Fletschner, Diana; Savath, Vivien; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
Secure land rights are a critical, but often overlooked, factor in achieving household food security and improved nutritional status in rural areas of developing countries. This study evaluates the impact of India’s land-allocation and registration program in West Bengal, a program that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132636
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Closing the gender asset gap: Learning from value chain development in Africa and Asia:
Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Rubin, Deborah; Manfre, Cristina; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
This paper explores initial findings from four case studies in the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project on changes … in gender relations in different agricultural interventions. It documents the adaptive measures projects are taking to … encourage gender-equitable value chain projects. Findings suggest that the dairy and horticulture value chain cases have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132653
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Women’s empowerment in agriculture: What role for food security in Bangladesh?:
Sraboni, Esha; Malapit, Hazel J.; Quisumbing, Agnes R.; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
Using nationally representative survey data from Bangladesh, we examine the relationship between women’s empowerment in agriculture and two measures of household food security: per adult equivalent calorie availability and dietary diversity. We use the Women’s Empowerment in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132672
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Links between tenure security and food security: Evidence from Ethiopia:
Hagos, Hosaena Ghebru; Holden, Stein - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
This study, thus, uses five rounds of household panel data from Tigray, Ethiopia, collected in the period 1998–2010 to assess the impacts of a land registration and certification program that aimed to strengthen tenure security and how it has contributed to increased food availability and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132689
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Gender dimensions of agriculture, poverty, nutrition and food security in Nigeria:
Ajani, Olubunmi Idowu Yetunde - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
Gender analysis focuses on the different roles and responsibilities of women and men and how these affect society … credit, land, education, decision-making power and rights to work. Explicitly, while gender analysis focuses on the relations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132809
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Global Nutrition Report 2014: Actions and accountability to accelerate the world’s progress on nutrition
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); …
At the 2013 Nutrition for Growth Summit in London, 96 signatories (governments, civil society organizations, donors, United Nations’ agencies, and businesses) agreed to support the creation of an annual report on global nutrition that would be authored by an independent expert group, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132817
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Gender, assets, and agricultural development programs: A conceptual framework:
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Johnson, Nancy; Quisumbing, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
differential access to and control over assets by men and women. After reviewing the literature on gender and assets, this paper … of assets. The framework generates gender-specific hypotheses that can be tested empirically: i) Different types of … individual(s) who control that asset; and iv) Interventions and policies that reduce the gender gap in assets are better able to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132845
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Resilience for food and nutrition security
Fan, Shenggen (contributor); Pandya-Lorch, Rajul (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
In recent years, many people and parts of the world have been hit by major shocks ranging from conflicts, erratic weather patterns, earthquakes, droughts, and floods to food price spikes. At the same time, poor people and communities remain vulnerable to shocks that may be smaller in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114823