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The year 2011 highlighted ongoing challenges to global food security, from food price volatility, extreme weather shocks, and famine to unrest and conflicts. On the policy front, major devel­opments at the global and national levels both offered grounds for encouragement and pointed to areas...
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Depuis 2007, deux séries successives d’envolée des prix des denrées alimentaires ont causé la faim ou la malnutrition pour des millions de personnes dans le monde. Les mêmes facteurs qui avaient contribué à la hausse des prix en 2007-2008 ont refait surface en 2011 et...
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environmental sustainability (such as deciding remaining forest cover in the region) and poverty reduction, but also for health …, nutrition, and gender outcomes in the region. The focus of this paper is on the health, nutrition, and gender linkage. …
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addition to producing adequate food, agriculture's crucial role in improving nutrition and health, sustainably making use of …
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security, improved nutrition, and health. We conclude that the evidence remains insufficient to draw broad conclusions due to … and consumption as well as minimization of health risks; (3) multiple uses of irrigation water should be recognized in …) policy synergies between different sectors (agriculture, nutrition, health, water supply and sanitation, education) should be …
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across the life course, from the preconception health status of the mother through adulthood. This paper lays out a core …
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vulnerable to poverty, food insecurity, and threats to their children’s nutrition, health, and education, with irreversible …
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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 … join forces in pursuit of the common goal of improving human well-being. In Reshaping Agriculture for Nutrition and Health …
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The year 2011 highlighted ongoing challenges to global food security, from food price volatility, extreme weather shocks, and famine to unrest and conflicts. On the policy front, major devel­opments at the global and national levels both offered grounds for encouragement and pointed to areas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277434
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 … the link between health investments and agricultural productivity. The evidence from some micro-level studies suggests …
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