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This paper surveys the results of four recent, separate attempts at estimating agricultural output and food availability in England and Wales at points between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution. It highlights their contrasting implications for trends in economic growth and...
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nutrition in particular. Yet, progress in either of these dimensions, particularly among young children (SDG target 2.2 on … management for improved health and nutrition. We focus on rural and peri-urban areas of the developing world, where multi … the trade-offs between specific uses and their implications for health and nutrition, based on the gender and age of …
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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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captures the link between changes in household incomes and changes in nutrition status, this paper provides a quantitative … simulations point to strong and persistent negative effects on agricultural value added, farm household incomes and nutrition …
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Mit den Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) haben sich die Mitglieder der Vereinten Nationen das Ziel gesetzt, die Lebensmittelabfälle entlang der gesamten Wertschöpfungskette bis 2030 zu reduzieren. Ziel des REFOWAS-Projekts war es, den deutschen Agrar- und Ernährungssektor hinsichtlich der...
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This paper analyses post-war coping strategies by farm households in developing countries. The analysis is based on a portfolio model of activity choices in war-affected rural Sub-Saharan Africa. A case study using farm household survey data estimates the determinants of agricultural coping...
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conditions in Philippine rural labor markets and agriculture can be characterized as casual or informal, with low skill … agricultural livelihood. Development involves the change in economic structure, anchored on productivity growth in agriculture …
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This study used a nationally representative survey from the 2012-2013 World Bank’s General Household Survey for Nigeria, to examine the relationship between empowerment, measured using a modification of the Alkire et al. (2013) empowerment index, and household dietary diversity, based on the...
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that despite coming from different development doctrines, the dominant rural sector-agriculture-in both eastern and western …
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G7. Technology and computerization of agriculture and related industries, urban-like living spaces, reducing disparities … Romania, more than half of the population lives in rural areas above the EU average. The contribution of agriculture to GDP … formation is only 4%, while the employed population in this sector is 25%. Romanian agriculture remains predominantly …
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