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The relationship between forests and human nutrition is not yet well understood. A better understanding of this … Health Survey food consumption data for over 93,000 children from 21 African countries and Global Land Cover Facility tree …’s diets: dietary diversity, fruit and vegetable consumption, and animal source food consumption. Our main findings can be …
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for urban agriculture to play a substantial role in urban poverty and food insecurity reduction should not be …Abstract Urban agriculture may have an important role to play in addressing food insecurity problems, which are bound … to become increasingly vital with the secular trends towards the urbanization of poverty and of population in developing …
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Government of the country is trying to reduce poverty. The country is developing in food security and nutrition since the last … decade. To make the country in a medium develop Government should stress on food security, poverty reduction, transformation … taken here to discuss the food and nutrition situation of Kenya to build a healthy nation. …
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This paper examines the impacts of the financial, food and fuel crises on the livelihoods of low-income households … substitution for lower quality food, increasing the intensity of work, withdrawing children from school – especially girls – and … engaging children in child labour, can lock households in a low-income equilibrium or poverty trap. Provided that covariate …
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Food security is about ensuring that all people at all times have both physical and economic access to the basic food … they need. In a number of African countries chronic malnutrition and transitory food insecurity are pervasive. Like most … African countries, Eritrea is also a victim of the problem of food insecurity. Based on this historical and recurrent food …
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Based on meso data, study analyses the causes of poverty and food insecurity. It seeks to identify who is food insecure … and where they are, why they risk food insecurity and what options exist to reduce their vulnerability. Using the … households. Even though Orissa is virtually self-sufficient in food grains, there is a significant prevalence of food insecurity …
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is the main occupation and maize is the staple food. About 90% farmers of the country are smallholders, dependent on rain … fed agriculture. After independence it was rich in food and could export maize but since 2002 it has to import maize every … to the Food and Agriculture Organization, 49% of the Zambian population is undernourished and unable to access minimum …
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between agriculture and poverty, the study argued that agricultural development would ensure food security, health and … poverty and agriculture in Tamil Nadu. The paper examined present status and trends in rural poverty in Tamil Nadu. It also … nutritional security, income and employment security, and economic and social security and thereby facilitate removal of poverty …
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The study estimates calories, proteins and fats-income elasticities in sub Saharan Africa (SSA). Annual time series data for 43 countries covering 1975-2009 that yields a balanced panel was employed for the analysis. The nutrient-income elasticities are estimated based on the aggregate Engel...
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