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Food prices, access to markets and child undernutrition in Ethiopia

Brenton, Paul; Nyawo, Mike - 2019

(stunting) and weight for height (wasting) as indicators of child undernutrition from the two most recent years of the Livings …This paper looks at how changing food prices affect child undernutrition in Ethiopia. It derives height for age … to suppress cereal price increases may have adverse effects on poverty reduction in the long term by undermining …

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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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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...

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