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, conducted in 2004–2005. Along both dimensions, access to food and nutrition, a good deal of spatial variation exists. First …
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Existing reviews on agriculture and nutrition consider limited evidence and focus on impact size, rather than impact … one of the agriculture-nutrition pathways. Agricultural development plays a role in improving nutrition. However … negative consequences for nutrition …
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Health-related incentives to reward effort or commitment are commonplace in many professional contracts throughout the world. Typically absent from small-scale agriculture in poor countries, such incentives may help overcome both health issues for remote rural families and supply issues for...
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Height-for-age z-scores (HAZs) and stunting status (HAZ<−2) are widely used to measure child nutrition and population …-heaping concerns, implying that the metrics described above could constitute useful markers of measurement error in nutrition surveys …
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could improve child nutrition. In this paper, we examine the impact of the PSNP on children's nutritional status over the …
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This paper assesses the Subramanian and Deaton (S–D) approach for imputing the caloric intake of households from food prepared away from home (FAFH) and composite foods (CF) by juxtaposing it with the imputations of alternative approaches, and extends these approaches to four additional...
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countries in the 2015 Global Hunger Index remain “serious” or “alarming.” Since achieving and maintaining food and nutrition …
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, with a specific emphasis on agriculture and nutrition policies. Focusing on five key elements of the policy cycle — agenda … domains related to food security, including agriculture, education, healthcare, nutrition, and social protection …
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Although women's empowerment and gender equality are associated with better maternal and child nutrition outcomes … to household-, women-, and child-level dietary and nutrition outcomes. We examine the relationship between women … nutrition outcomes across countries, but some patterns emerge. Overall empowerment scores are more strongly associated with …
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Many poverty alleviation programs aiming to enhance nutrition include behavior change communication (BCC). This study … uses a field experiment in Bangladesh to assess the impacts of BCC, focusing on nutrition training (providing information …) and cooking contests (providing experience). First, in 900 households, we tested the nutrition knowledge of two household …
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