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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912089
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214311
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The Global Landscape of Poverty, Food Insecurity, and Malnutrition and Implications for Agricultural Development Strategies
Headey, Derek D. - 2014
For many years poverty reduction was the overarching welfare objective of a wide range of development institutions and programs, particularly in the context of agricultural development. Yet in recent years the development community has increasingly set for itself more specific welfare objectives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014150315
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014142980
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The Role of the Private Sector in Food System Resilience : Lessons From Cambodia
Rana, Akriti - 2018
This paper assesses the role of the private sector by using the case study of Cambodia to learn specific lessons for increasing the resilience of food systems in the developing world. In order to develop a sustainable and lasting impact, it is imperative that both market actors and private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912115
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Food System Innovations for Healthier Diets in Low and Middle-Income Countries
de Brauw, Alan - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889693
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Improving Diets Through Food Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries : Metrics for Analysis
Melesse, Mequanint B. - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864914
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What Drives Diversification of National Food Supplies? A Cross-Country Analysis
Choudhury, Samira - 2016
diversification of diets and for reductions in undernutrition in poor countries, little previous research has analyzed how DFS varies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977515
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Nutrition Sensitive Food Systems in Conflict Affected Regions : A Case Study of Afghanistan
Babu, Suresh Chandra; Looden, Jamshed; Ajmal, Mehnaz; … - 2021
The food systems approach can contribute to food security and reduced malnutrition levels by identifying key investments and policies throughout the food system, including production, processing, marketing, and consumption of food. However, in countries facing fragility and conflict, it has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235922
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Climate Change and Variability : What are the Risks for Nutrition, Diets, and Food Systems?
Fanzo, Jessica - 2017
this report does not explicitly exclude overweight and obesity, it focuses primarily on undernutrition because this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948735