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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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This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the … domestic food markets could magnify the initial shock. The analysis shows that, in the quarter following the outbreak of the … pandemic, the global export supply of food could decrease between 6 and 20 percent and global prices increase between 2 and 6 …
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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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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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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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Under nutrition levels in Lao PDR remain among the highest in the world, despite both rapid economic growth and a … significant decline in poverty over the past years. Concerns about the slow progress in reducing under nutrition have triggered … intense policy discussion and several analytical reports have been produced over the last few years on the Lao PDR nutrition …
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This paper focuses on the inequalities in health, nutrition, and population in Indonesia. It presents data on …. That is, the profile takes data on population as well as on reproductive and child health and nutrition from tables … presented in the Indonesia version of socio-economic differences in health, nutrition, and population and presents them in a …
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This paper focuses on the inequalities in health, nutrition, and population in Uzbekistan. It presents data on …. That is, the profile takes data on population as well as on reproductive and child health and nutrition from tables … presented in the Uzbekistan version of Socio-Economic Differences in Health, Nutrition and Population (Gwatkin, Rustein, Johnson …
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This paper focuses on the inequalities in health, nutrition, and population in Malawi. It presents data on …. That is, the profile takes data on population as well as on reproductive and child health and nutrition from tables … presented in the Malawi version of socio-economic differences in health, nutrition, and population and presents them in a more …
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This paper focuses on the inequalities in health, nutrition, and population in Turkey. It presents data on …. That is, the profile takes data on population as well as on reproductive and child health and nutrition from tables … presented in the Turkey version of Socio-Economic Differences in Health, Nutrition and Population (Gwatkin, Rustein, Johnson …
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