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Bread of the Future : Climate Change, Agriculture and Food in Latin America (El Pan Del Futuro: Cambio Climático, Agricultura Y Alimentación En América Latina)
Maletta, Hector E. - 2014
Does predicted global warming imply more hunger in the future of Latin America? Climate projections prepared by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are briefly presented, along with an analysis of existing estimates of their probable impact on agriculture and food...
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Food Security in India
Shrivastava, Rahul - 2010
This article mainly focuses on the concept of development keeping in view the basic right to food of an individual. This has been analysed critically in the context of India and it goes further to the extent of positive comparison between India and its contemporary countries. It is very...
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Food Demand and Cash Transfers : A Collective Household Approach with Homescan Data
Lin, Xirong - 2022
I study how individual preferences and bargaining power within older couples affects the impact of cash transfers on food demand. Using longitudinal Homescan data, I find that wives have stronger preferences for food than husbands, and that household demand patterns for food are affected by...
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Do Food Prices Affect Food Security for SNAP Households? Evidence from the CPS Matched to the Quarterly Food-At-Home Price Database
Gregory, Christian - 2015
Population Survey (CPS) and the recently published Quarterly Food-At-Home Price Database (QFAHPD). By constructing this sample we …
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Hunger and Food Insecurity in Nairobi’s Slums : An Assessment Using IRT Models
Faye, Ousmane; Baschieri, Angela; Falkingham, Jane; … - 2014
dwellers live on less than one dollar a day, it is obvious that a large proportion of the urban population must be satisfied …
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Trends in World Food Security (Tendencias Mundiales En La Seguridad Alimentaria)
Maletta, Hector E. - 2009
have largely vanished. Along the last 40 years world population grew by 98% but food supply increased by 155%. Per capita …
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Navigating a Changing Private Rental Sector : Opportunities and Challenges for Low-Income Renters
Parkinson, Sharon; James, Amity; Liu, Edgar - 2018
This study investigated how low-income renters navigate the private rental sector (PRS) via three core pathways: the formal (via traditional or mainstream real estate agent intermediaries), informal (direct to rooms and dwellings privately managed by landlords and sub-landlords) and supported...
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Strong Neighborhoods : Key to Reviving America and Building a Flourishing Society
Kaplan, Seth - 2022
the past 50 years, the number of high-poverty neighborhoods has tripled and the population of poor people in these …
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Understanding and Addressing Childhood Immunization Coverage in Urban Slums
Agarwal, Siddharth; Bhanot, Arti; Goindi, Geetanjali - 2016
The National Population Policy (2000) aims at complete protection of all children against vaccine preventable diseases … by 2010. Urban poor, many residing in slums, comprise about one-fourth of India’s 285 million urban population. 60% of … conditions and high population density in slums expedite disease transmission. Comparisons of urban-rural disease incidence …
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Migrant Adolescent Girls in Urban Slums India : Aspirations, Opportunities and Challenges
Agarwal, Siddharth; Jones, Eleri; Verma, Shabnam - 2017
this population segment need focus in policies and programs, prioritizing three particularly vulnerable groups: girls who … opportunities. Specific challenges of this population segment need focus in policies and programs, prioritizing three particularly … focuses on recently migrant adolescent girls in India’s fast growing urban slum population for whom multiple vulnerabilities …
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