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Fukushima nuclear disaster on the Japanese agriculture and food sector. It contains fourteen parts: introduction with the …, infrastructure and businesses; assessments of impacts on food industries; analysis of radioactive contamination of agri-food products …; evaluation of the effects on markets, consumers and international trade; analysis of effects on food regulation and inspection …
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The March 11, 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear plant accident have had immense impacts on Japanese agri-food sector … agriculture, food industries and consumers as well as factors for persistence of negative impacts, and longer-term impacts on … Fukushima nuclear disaster on the Japanese agriculture and food sector. Nearly four years after the triple disaster, it gives …
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The relationship between forests and human nutrition is not yet well understood. A better understanding of this … Health Survey food consumption data for over 93,000 children from 21 African countries and Global Land Cover Facility tree …’s diets: dietary diversity, fruit and vegetable consumption, and animal source food consumption. Our main findings can be …
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Abstract Urban agriculture may have an important role to play in addressing food insecurity problems, which are bound … countries. Our understanding of the importance, and food security implications of urban agriculture is however plagued by a lack … international perspective the importance of urban agriculture for the urban poor and food insecure. On the one hand, the potential …
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Government of the country is trying to reduce poverty. The country is developing in food security and nutrition since the last … taken here to discuss the food and nutrition situation of Kenya to build a healthy nation. … improvement. Main staple food of Kenya is maize, which accounted about 65% of total staple food caloric intake and 36% of total …
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Objective: To examine the association between frequency of family dinners (FFD) and selected problem behaviors for adolescents after adjusting for family connectedness, parental awareness, other family activities, and other potentially confounding factors. Methods: Data are drawn from the...
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The positive relationship between household income and child health is well documented in the child health literature but the precise mechanisms via which income generates better health and whether the income gradient is increasing in child age are not well understood. This paper presents new...
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The study estimates calories, proteins and fats-income elasticities in sub Saharan Africa (SSA). Annual time series data for 43 countries covering 1975-2009 that yields a balanced panel was employed for the analysis. The nutrient-income elasticities are estimated based on the aggregate Engel...
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-worker communication and the mother feeding more calorific food at home. There is also a sustained long-run positive impact of the combined …
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health outcomes for household members. This paper investigates whether child nutrition inequalities are attributable to … method to estimate the between and within contributions of both the explained and unexplained variances of child nutrition …. Child nutrition is measured using height-for-age z-scores, and weight-for-height z-scores. The empirical analysis uses the …
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