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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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facilitate access to food markets and thus improve food security and nutrition, but research on such types of effects remains …
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. Here, we analyze impacts on farm household nutrition. Building on data from vegetable farmers in Kenya, we show that … impacts on dietary quality. The total nutrition effects of supermarket participation could be even more positive if women were … be useful for other impact studies to better understand agriculture-nutrition linkages. …
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Many low income countries are experiencing a “nutrition transition” towards the consumption of more energy … consequences of the nutrition transition have been expanding waistlines and surging rates of nutrition-related non …-communicable diseases, including diabetes, heart diseases and certain cancers. Given the still prevailing rates of under-nutrition, affected …
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We analyze how the nutrition transition affects child malnutrition in developing countries. It is often assumed that … the nutrition transition affects child weight but not child growth, which could be one reason why child underweight … regressions show that the nutrition transition reduces child underweight, while no consistent effect on child overweight is found …
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revolution may affect dietary patterns and nutrition, but empirical evidence is scarce. The few existing studies have analyzed … supermarkets causes improvements in dietary quality. The results underline that supermarkets influence nutrition in multiple ways …
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. Furthermore, existing studies on nutrition effects focused mainly on the role of supermarkets, although most consumers obtain …
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, research on the implications for people's diets and nutrition is still scant. Here, we analyze the effects of supermarkets on … child diets and nutrition in China. We use nationally representative panel data that include information on households … child dietary quality and nutrition in China. …
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