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South Africa Milestones to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals on Poverty and Hunger

Fofana, Ismael - 2018

South Africa has signed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and placed poverty and inequality reduction at the forefront of its National Development Plan. This study links a nonparametric income distribution (micro) simulation model and an economywide general equilibrium (macro) model to...

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Improving Nutrition as a Development Priority : Addressing Undernutrition in National Policy Processes in Sub-Saharan Africa

Benson, Todd - 2012

Undernutrition remains a major source of human suffering and an obstacle to national economic and human development in … many African countries. This report investigates undernutrition's persistence, drawing on case studies of the public … actors, understanding of undernutrition, and the timing of public responses, the author explains why none of these four …

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The Global Landscape of Poverty, Food Insecurity, and Malnutrition and Implications for Agricultural Development Strategies

Headey, Derek D. - 2014

, food insecurity, and malnutrition indicators, as expected. But somewhat novel is a strong relationship between a simple …

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Can Smallholder Fruit and Vegetable Production Systems Improve Household Food Security and Nutritional Status of Women? Evidence from Rural Uganda

Kabunga, Nassul; Ghosh, Shibani; Griffiths, Jeffrey - 2014

This paper aims to empirically infer potential causal linkages between fruit and vegetable (F&V) production, individual F&V intake, household food security, and anemia levels for individual women caregivers of childbearing age. Using a unique and rich dataset recently collected from rural...

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Improving the Measurement of Food Security

Headey, Derek D. - 2012

Although food security measurement has been substantially expanded in recent decades, there persists significant dissatisfaction with existing measurement systems, especially in the wake of the global food and financial crisis. In this paper we first set out a list of criteria that an ideal food...

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Gender Justice and Food Security in India : A Review

Rao, Nitya - 2017

There is ample evidence to suggest a strong correlation between gender inequality and food and nutrition insecurity, yet the policy discourse around food and nutrition security in India has largely been gender-blind. This paper, based on a review of existing literature and emerging research,...

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Food Inflation and Food Price Volatility in India : Trends and Determinants

Sekhar, C. S. C. - 2017

The study analyzes food inflation trends in India over the last decade. Annual trends show that different commodities have contributed to food inflation in different years and that no single commodity shows uniformly high inflation. A decomposition exercise shows that eggs, meat, fish, milk,...

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Impact of India's National Food Security Act On Domestic and International Rice Markets

Debnath, Deepayan - 2017

Policy making in food security is at a crossroads in India, particularly for the rice crop. Whereas India has emerged as a leading rice exporter over the last two years, the government has also introduced a large food subsidy program called the National Food Security Act. The program requires...

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Nutrition Transition and the Structure of Global Food Demand

Gouel, Christophe - 2017

Estimating future demand for food is a critical aspect of global food security analyses. The process linking dietary changes to wealth is known as the nutrition transition and presents well-identified features that help to predict consumption changes in poor countries. This study proposes to...

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Strengthening and Harmonizing Food Policy Systems to Achieve Food Security : A Case Study and Lessons from Ghana

Babu, Suresh Chandra - 2017

Understanding how various entities in a policy system at the national level can contribute to improved use of evidence in policy making. Yet little research has focused in developing countries on how various actors and players in a policy system work together to achieve a set of policy goals. In...

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