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In this paper we reassess the food consumption and dietary impact of the regimes of food and food price control and … eventually, food rationing, that were introduced in Britain during the First World War. At the end of the War the Sumner … workers' households. We also find that the price controls were particularly effective in changing the pattern of food spending …
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The paper is a documentation of a (non-representative) survey on the food situation of households in the Grodno region …, Belarus. It covers the year between September 2000 and August 2001. The focus of the survey was on the sources of food in the … well balanced diet based on potatoes and vegetables as the main staple food. 75 percent of the households use small land …
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On average, child health outcomes are better in urban than in rural areas of developing countries. Understanding the nature and the causes of this rural-urban disparity is essential in contemplating the health consequences of the rapid urbanization taking place throughout the developing world...
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Das europäische Schutzsystem für geographische Herkunftsangaben bietet die Möglichkeit für den Aufbau regionaler Wertschöpfungsketten. Diese Wertschöpfungsketten sind geeignet, den Verbraucherwünschen nach regionaler Herkunft entgegenzukommen, den Interessen der regionalen Landwirtschaft...
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underpin a survey estimate. This study leverages a recent randomized food consumption survey experiment in Tanzania to shed … household food consumption. …
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Maternal sugar consumption in utero may have a variety of effects on offspring. We exploit the abolishment of the rationing of sweet confectionery in the UK on April 24, 1949, and its subsequent reintroduction some months later, in an era of otherwise uninterrupted rationing of confectionery...
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Maternal sugar consumption in utero may have a variety of effects on offspring. We exploit the abolishment of the rationing of sweet confectionery in the UK on April 24, 1949, and its subsequent reintroduction some months later, in an era of otherwise uninterrupted rationing of confectionery...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426393
This study investigates the short-term impacts of an aggregate socioeconomic shock on household food consumption and … children's nutrition using the case of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mozambique. In response to the economic downturn, households … are expected to adjust their food choices both in terms of quality, towards cheaper and unhealthier food, and quantity …
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Maternal sugar consumption in utero may have a variety of effects on offspring. We exploit the abolishment of the rationing of sweet confectionery in the UK on April 24, 1949, and its subsequent reintroduction some months later, in an era of otherwise uninterrupted rationing of confectionery...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480386
This paper develops a bio-economic Malthusian growth model. By integrating recent research on allometric scaling, energy consumption, and ontogenetic growth we provide a model where subsistence consumption is endogenously linked to body mass and fertility. The theory admits a two-dimensional...
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