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Agriculture-Nutrition Pathway in India
Gaiha, Raghav; Kaicker, Nidhi; Imai, Katsushi S.; … - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2012
as well as through livestock. As this pathway is subsumed in agriculture and nutrition studies focusing on anthropometric …Our analysis illustrates one pathway between agriculture and nutrition through production of nutrients by crop and size … outcomes, and hardly any light is thrown on the contribution of smallholders, it is emphasised that they play an important role …
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Diet Diversification and Diet Quality in India: An Analysis
Gaiha, Raghav; Kaicker, Nidhi; Imai, Katsushi S.; … - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2012
consumption of fruits, vegetables, oils and livestock products. Using household data, a food diversity index (FDI) is constructed … corroborated. While there is a reduction in calorie intake, there are increases in protein and fat intakes. A case is made for …
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Land Reform and Sex Selection in China
Li, Hongbin; Almond, Douglas; Zhang, Shuang - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Following the death of Mao in 1976, abandonment of collective farming lifted millions from poverty and heralded sweeping pro-market policies. How did China's excess in male births respond to rural land reform? In newly-available data from over 1,000 counties, a second child following a daughter...
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Policies for Inclusive Urbanisation in China
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
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What risks do agricultural interventions entail for nutrition?
Dury, S.; Alpha, A.; Bichard, A. - Unité Mixte de Recherche Marchés, Organisations, … - 2014
Agricultural development status impact individual nutrition through food, health and care practices. Many recent studies are focused on the positive side of the impact pathways. However, in some cases, those interventions may have negative outcomes on nutrition. We explore those potential...
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Identifier et limiter les risques des interventions agricoles sur la nutrition
Dury, S.; Alpha, A.; Bichard, A. - Unité Mixte de Recherche Marchés, Organisations, … - 2014
Agricultural development status impact individual nutrition through food, health and care practices. Many recent studies are focused on the positive side of the impact pathways. However, in some cases, those interventions may have negative outcomes on nutrition. We explore those potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010743536
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Challenges Ahead of Ailing Indian Agriculture
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper takes stock of the state of agriculture in India, brings out with the stylised facts, issues and emerging … challenges related to agriculture sector and then makes an attempt to formulate policy measures for further growth of the Indian … agriculture. …
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Forage-livestock policies designed to improve livelihoods in Western China: a critical review
Brown, Colin; Waldron, Scott; Yuman, Liu; Longworth, John - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 4, pp. 367-381
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how the promotion of integrated forage/ruminant-livestock industries … policy relates to other measures intended to improve household livelihoods. Findings – The outcomes of this forage-livestock … households and markets. Originality/value – Identifying the impacts of policy and institutional settings associated with forage-livestock …
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Is body mass human capital in sports? Outcome of globalization of sumo wrestling and generation of human capital in Japan
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Using a data set for all sumo wrestlers in the post-World War II period, this paper investigates how wrestlers’ body mass index (BMI) is associated with wrestlers’ winning rate and absence rate. Further, the effect of BMI is compared between an early period (before the emergence of foreign...
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Is body mass human capital in sumo? Outcome of globalization and formation of human capital in Japan
Yamamura, Eiji - In: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 31 (2014) C, pp. 53-71
Sumo wrestling is a traditional fighting sport in Japan and has been popular since the 18th century (the Edo period). Using a data set for all sumo wrestlers in the post-World War II period, this paper investigates how wrestlers’ body mass index (BMI) is associated with their win rate and...
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