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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. Investment in these systems has been woefully inadequate for many decades, creating supply bottlenecks and health hazards that work against the interests of both farmers and...

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Determinants of Crop Income in Rural Mozambique, 2002-2005.

Mather, David - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2012

Crop income is the predominant source of income for most rural Mozambican households, accounting for 73% of rural household income on average in 2002, and greater than 80% of the total income of the poorest 40% of rural households. While the Government of Mozambique recognizes the need to...

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Food Price Spikes and Strategic Interactions between the Public and Private Sectors: Market Failures or Governance Failures.

Jayne, Thomas S.; Tschirley, David L. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009

When food prices shoot over import parity, this often leads to social and political unrest and even the toppling of governments. If markets behaved efficiently and in the absence of trade barriers, food prices should not exceed the price in world markets plus the cost of importing it to domestic...

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An Introduction to Nutrition-Agriculture Linkages

Chung, Kimberly - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2012

nutrition. Accordingly, the term “nutrition-agriculture linkages” describes the set of relationships that shows the mutual … dependence of nutrition, health and agriculture. Changes in nutrition or health status are expected to affect agricultural … status. Most development professionals, however, are sectoral specialists. Some are trained in nutrition or agriculture, but …

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Staple Food Consumption Patterns in Urban Zambia: Results from the 2007/2008 Urban Consumption Survey

Mason, Nicole M.; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009

in urban areas by 2040. Given this urbanization trajectory, to be effective, policies to promote smallholder agriculture …

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Population and Sustainability: Understanding Population, Environment, and Development Linkages

Clay, Daniel C.; Reardon, Thomas - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 1998

tend to focus on individual sectors such as the environment, agriculture, and population; they do not explicitly take into …

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Theme Overview: Transitions in Agriculture

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Will Long Term Food Desert Consumers Purchase Fresh Fruits and Vegetables?

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Food Deserts Suffer Persistent Socioeconomic Disadvantage

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Effects of the Revised Food Packages for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) in Connecticut

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