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Evolution of poor food access over the course of the conflict in the Republic of Yemen
Tandon, Sharad; Vishwanath, Tara - 2019
The Republic of Yemen has undergone a profound transformation following the escalation of conflict in March 2015. There has been an increase in violence, a disruption in supply chains due to a tightening of the ports, and a decline in the general economic climate that has left a large share of...
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The challenge of measuring hunger
De Weerdt, Joachim; Beegle, Kathleen; Friedman, Jed; … - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010225266
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Food prices, access to markets and child undernutrition in Ethiopia
Brenton, Paul; Nyawo, Mike - 2019
This paper looks at how changing food prices affect child undernutrition in Ethiopia. It derives height for age … (stunting) and weight for height (wasting) as indicators of child undernutrition from the two most recent years of the Livings … Standards Measurement Survey and utilizes market prices for key cereals, teff, wheat, and maize at the zone level across all …
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Feeding of infants and young children in South Asia
Torlesse, Harriet; Raju, Dhushyanth - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002475
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Famine and the aid response : evidence from the announcement of famine-like conditions in the Republic of Yemen
Tandon, Sharad; Vishwanath, Tara - 2019
Using a high-frequency mobile phone survey of food security conducted by the World Food Programme, this paper investigates how food assistance and access to food changed following the announcement of famine-like conditions in the Republic of Yemen. Among the mobile phone-using population, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008382
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Long-term impacts of an unanticipated risk event : the 2007/08 food price crisis and child growth in Indonesia
Yamauchi, Futoshi; Larson, Donald Frederick - 2016
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Small area estimation of child malnutrition in Ethiopian woredas
Sohnesen, Thomas Pave; Ambel, Alemayehu; Fisker, Peter … - 2016
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The nutrition sensitivity of food and agriculture in South Asia
Dizon, Felipe; Josephson, Anna; Raju, Dhushyanth - 2019
Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia, a region characterized by a high level of malnutrition. The review finds that the level and stability of food prices play a critical part in food consumption, with rising...
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Feeding five billion Asians : a socioeconomic perspective
Cuesta, José - 2013
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Predicting food crises
Andrée, Bo Pieter Johannes; Chamorro, Andres; Kraay, Aart - 2020
Globally, more than 130 million people are estimated to be in food crisis. These humanitarian disasters are associated with severe impacts on livelihoods that can reverse years of development gains. The existing outlooks of crisis-affected populations rely on expert assessment of evidence and...
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