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Equality for women in all areas of life is not only a fundamental human right, but is also a crucial prerequisite for achieving human development goals. Women constitute half of the world population and about 43 percent of the agricultural labor force, which makes the importance of research into...
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terms of household expenditures, child education, and nutrition. Results show that Organic and Fairtrade both have positive … contributes to improved nutrition but has no effect on education. For Fairtrade it is exactly the other way around. We explore the …
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facilitate access to food markets and thus improve food security and nutrition, but research on such types of effects remains …
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Agricultural innovations are seen as a key avenue to improve nutrition and health in smallholder farm households. But … details of these agriculture-nutrition-health linkages are not yet well understood. While there is a broad literature on the … adoption of agricultural technologies, most studies primarily focus on impacts in terms of productivity and income. Nutrition …
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Adequate nutrition constitutes a cornerstone of human capital formation. Only a well-nourished and healthy child will …
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effects. Here, we analyze how oil palm cultivation by smallholder farmers influences nutrition through changing income, gender … indicators of nutrition and dietary quality. These effects are primarily channeled through income gains that improve smallholders …. Independent of oil palm cultivation, female off-farm employment has positive nutrition effects, even after controlling for total …
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household nutrition have received much less attention. We evaluate the impact of commercialization on household food security … important not only for rural economic growth, but also for making smallholder agriculture more nutrition-sensitive. …
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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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Agricultural innovations are seen as a key avenue to improve nutrition and health in smallholder farm households. But … details of these agriculture-nutrition-health linkages are not yet well understood. While there is a broad literature on the … adoption of agricultural technologies, most studies primarily focus on impacts in terms of productivity and income. Nutrition …
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