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Does Livestock Ownership Affect Animal Source Foods Consumption and Child Nutritional Status? Evidence from Rural Uganda
Azzarri, Carlo - 2020
In many developing countries, consumption of animal source foods among the poor is still at a level where increasing its share in total caloric intake may have many positive nutritional benefits. This paper explores whether ownership of various livestock species increases consumption of animal...
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Food Prices, Access to Markets and Child Undernutrition in Ethiopia
Brenton, Paul - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012872054
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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 - 2017
Unanticipated spikes in food prices can increase malnutrition among the poor, with lasting consequences; however …
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Small Area Estimation of Child Malnutrition in Ethiopian Woredas
Sohnesen, Thomas Pave - 2017
Reducing child undernutrition is a key social policy objective of the Ethiopian government. Despite substantial … reduction over the past decade and a half, child undernutrition is still high. With 48 percent of children stunted, underweight …, or wasted, undernutrition remains an important child health challenge. The existing literature highlights that the …
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The Challenge of Measuring Hunger
De Weerdt, Joachim - 2017
There is widespread interest in the number of hungry people in the world and trends in hunger. Current global counts rely on combining each country's total food balance with information on distribution patterns from household consumption expenditure surveys. Recent research has advocated for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973629
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Feeding Five Billion Asians : A Socioeconomic Perspective
Cuesta, Jose - 2017
This paper reviews the prospects for long-term food security in Asia, where a significant number of malnourished individuals still live after decades of mixed progress. Evidence shows that poverty reduction on its own will not do the job of eradicating hunger, nor will only increased food...
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Improving Child Nutrition Outcomes in India : Can the Integrated Child Development Services Be More Effective?
Das Gupta, Monica - 2017
Levels of child malnutrition in India fell only slowly during the 1990s, despite significant economic growth and large …. The states with the greatest need for the program - the poor northern states with high levels of child malnutrition and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966153
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Covid-19 and Food Protectionism : The Impact of the Pandemic and Export Restrictions on World Food Markets
Espitia, Alvaro - 2020
This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the initial shock due to the pandemic under the assumption that products that are more labor intensive in production are more affected through workers' morbidity and containment...
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Agricultural Policies and Trade Paths in Turkey
Larson, Donald F. - 2017
In 1959, shortly after the European Economic Community was founded under the 1957 Treaty of Rome, Turkey applied for Associate Membership in the then six-member common market. By 1963, a path for integrating the economies of Turkey and the eventual European Union had been mapped. As with many...
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The Socioeconomics of Fish Consumption and Child Health in Bangladesh
Dasgupta, Susmita - 2019
Child malnutrition in Bangladesh exceeds WHO's threshold for public health emergencies. Using more than 36,000 records …
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