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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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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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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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Despite significant poverty reduction over the past decade, undernutrition in Myanmar remains widespread. Food prices … play an important role in influencing diets and nutrition outcomes, especially for poorer households. In this study, we use … national household food expenditure data to assess dietary patterns and estimate regional costs of nutritious diets in Myanmar …
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trade. These policies could also be paired with an expanded set of education programs that integrate nutrition …
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We present evidence on evolving dietary patterns in Nigeria using three waves and six total rounds of household consumption data from the Nigerian Living Standards and Measurement Surveys between the years of 2011 and 2016. First, following conventional definitions in the literature, we show...
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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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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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In this paper we look at Sri Lanka's food and nutrition policies from a historical perspective to identify the … intervention options for addressing the country's current food security and nutrition challenges …
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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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