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terms of household expenditures, child education, and nutrition. Results show that Organic and Fairtrade both have positive … contributes to improved nutrition but has no effect on education. For Fairtrade it is exactly the other way around. We explore the …
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Global food demand will see a rapid increase over the coming decades. Existing studies on future calorie demand consider mainly population growth and rising incomes. We add to the literature by estimating the effect of increases in human weight caused by rising BMI and height on future calorie...
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In the last decades global food value chains have seen the need for increasing vertical coordination in order to secure quality standards. A prominent way to govern the relationships between farmers and agri-business firms are farming contracts. We study the role of trust, risk and time...
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facilitate access to food markets and thus improve food security and nutrition, but research on such types of effects remains …
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Agricultural innovations are seen as a key avenue to improve nutrition and health in smallholder farm households. But … details of these agriculture-nutrition-health linkages are not yet well understood. While there is a broad literature on the … adoption of agricultural technologies, most studies primarily focus on impacts in terms of productivity and income. Nutrition …
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household nutrition have received much less attention. We evaluate the impact of commercialization on household food security … important not only for rural economic growth, but also for making smallholder agriculture more nutrition-sensitive. …
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, several articles have discussed how the nutrition transition has affected people’s body weights in the country. This article …
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market incentives and builds on comparative advantage, it can contribute to improved income and nutrition. This may also … a nutrition perspective improving market access is more important than farm diversification as such. …
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This study analyzes the extent to which nutritional status in terms of weight change has been affected by the income distribution as the economy has grown. Is BMI growth different at different tails of the income distribution? Health and nutritional outcomes are not normally expected to be...
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in particular, was shown to improve child nutrition in various geographical contexts. One important avenue to empower … women is fostering female employment. However, maternal employment can influence child nutrition through different … that maternal employment can affect child nutrition through changes in (i) income, (ii) intra-household bargaining power …
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