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Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia …. Several supply-side food and agricultural interventions suggest promise in improving nutrition, although their effects have …, a region characterized by a high level of malnutrition. The review finds that the level and stability of food prices …
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transformations have resulted in widespread food insecurity, where nearly half the population is under the threat of a potential … regional distribution of poor food access suggest that food insecurity of the mobile phone-using population has been primarily …
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of stunting in the Philippines, using data from the 2015 National Nutrition Survey. Potential drivers are analyzed … suboptimal prenatal conditions and inadequate food security and diversity. If the results are given a causal interpretation, they … 20 percent. Similarly, providing adequate food security and diversity to all Filipino children would reduce stunting by …
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which the nutritional composition of food consumed away from home is behind this rise, and the links with socioeconomic … restaurants located in the food environment of the households is significantly associated with higher rates of obesity and … overweight. Up to 15 percent of the socioeconomic gradient in obesity is attributable to restaurant food quality, with sodium …
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Total energy expenditures for the Indian population between 1983 and 2012 are estimated to shed light on the debate concerning falling measured caloric intake during the period (Deaton and Dre ze 2009). Anthropometric, time-use, and detailed employment surveys are used to estimate the separate...
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