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Taking a food systems approach is a promising strategy for improving diets. Implementing such an approach would require the use of a comprehensive set of metrics to characterize food systems, set meaningful goals, track food systems performance, and evaluate the impacts of food systems...
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Malnutrition in all its forms is a major challenge everywhere in the world, and particularly in low and middle income countries. To reduce malnutrition, innovations in food systems are needed to both provide sufficient options for consumers to obtain diets with adequate nutritional value, and to...
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calculate proxy estimates of food consumption, nutrient intakes, and nutrition status, often at the individual level. Rarely … strengthening HCES measurement of food consumption in support of more evidence-based nutrition policy making …
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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 represent the nutrition transition with a nonhomothetic, flexible … Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. It captures the main features of the nutrition transition: rise in demand for …
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play an important role in influencing diets and nutrition outcomes, especially for poorer households. In this study, we use …
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nutrition along the entire food value chain. It then identifies adaptation and mitigation interventions for each step of the … food value chain to move toward a more climate-smart, nutrition-sensitive food system. The study focuses on poor rural … farmers, a population especially vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change on nutrition, although we recognize that …
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Weather shocks and other shocks affecting the economy of farm households often trigger a cascade of coping mechanisms … polygyny and children's nutrition, and how it may be mediated through women's bargaining power. Using the age of each co …-wife as a proxy for rank, I also study how the senior-wife status of a mother may influence her children's nutrition outcomes …
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Extreme weather events, such as heatwaves, droughts, and excess rainfall, are a major cause of crop yield losses and … extreme weather and future climate change. However, the accuracy of weather-yield relationships derived from crop models …. Gridded weather datasets, derived from combinations of in-situ gauges, remote sensing, and climate models, provide a solution …
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that adoption of ZT is one possible way to reduce potential loss from some of these weather events and that ZT is therefore …
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, nonparametric yield response analysis to weather, maize price, and time trend to project climate impact on maize and to compare with …
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