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Evaluating nutrition and health impacts of agricultural innovations
Qaim, Matin - 2014
details of these agriculture-nutrition-health linkages are not yet well understood. While there is a broad literature on the …
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Genetically Modified Crops and Agricultural Development
Qaim, Matin - 2016
This book analyzes the impacts of current and possible future GM crop applications and shows that these technologies can contribute substantially to sustainable agricultural development and food security
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Organic agriculture, food security, and the environment
Meemken, Eva-Marie; Qaim, Matin - In: Annual review of resource economics 10 (2018), pp. 39-63
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Organic Agriculture, Food Security, and the Environment
Meemken, Eva-Marie; Qaim, Matin - 2018
Organic agriculture is often perceived as more sustainable than conventional farming. We review the literature on this … upscaling of organic agriculture would cause additional loss of natural habitats and also entail output price increases, making … agriculture and food security, but smart combinations of organic and conventional methods could contribute toward sustainable …
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Essays on food security and the nutrition transition in developing countries
Rischke, Ramona - 2014
The nature of food insecurity has been changing in the world. While research on food insecurity in developing countries used to focus on undernourishment (i.e. lack of calorie consumption) and related outcomes, today, many developing countries face at least a “double burden of malnutrition”...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519765
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Farm production diversity and dietary quality in smallholder farm households
Sibhatu, Kibrom Tadesse - 2016
Investments in agricultural modernization have resulted in remarkable progress in food production over the last century. As a consequence, the global number and the proportion of undernourished people has fallen significantly. Despite this progress, providing sufficient and nutritiously diverse...
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Nutrition effects of the supermarket revolution on urban consumers and smallholder farmers in Kenya
Qaim, Matin; Andersson, Camilla I. M.; Chege, Christine … - 2014
Food systems in developing countries are transforming, involving a rapid expansion of supermarkets. This supermarket revolution may affect dietary patterns and nutrition, but empirical evidence is scarce. The few existing studies have analyzed implications for food consumers and producers...
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The complementarities of child health achievements in developing countries
Lo Bue, Maria C. - 2015
Diese Dissertation basiert auf einer auf den Menschen bezogenen, multidimensionalen Betrachtung von Entwicklung. Sie soll empirisch Übereinstimmungen und Determinanten der Gesundheit von Kindern in Ländern mit niedrigem und mittlerem Einkommen analysieren. Der erste Essay – mit verfasst von...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011297025
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Market food environments and child nutrition
Huelsen, Vivien; Khonje, Makaiko Gonapanyanja; Qaim, Matin - 2024
Child malnutrition and low-quality diets remain widespread public health problems in sub-Saharan Africa. Providing access to nutritious and healthy foods for all is key, but it is not at all clear how this can be achieved in various local contexts. Here, we analyze the role of markets and food...
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Impact of tissue culture banana technology on farm household income and food security in Kenya
Kabunga, Nassul Ssentamu; Dubois, Thomas; Qaim, Matin - 2011
While tissue culture (TC) technology for vegetative plant propagation is gradually gaining in importance in Africa, rigorous ex post assessments of welfare effects for smallholder farm households is lacking. Using recent survey data and accounting for self-selection in technology adoption, we...
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