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Policy barriers to a healthier diet: The case of trade and agriculture

Alta, Aditya; Auliya, Rachma; Fauzi, Azizah Nazzala - 2023

recent sharp increase. Realizing the importance of nutrition fulfillment for human capital, the government has set a target … Stunting Reduction in Indonesia 2021- 2024 (RAN-PASTI), and National Action Plan for Food and Nutrition 2020-2024 (RAN …-PG). Targets and activities in these documents reflect the multidimensional nature of food and nutrition issues, but overlook the …

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Food Security in South Asia: Issues and Opportunities

Mittal, Surabhi; Sethi, Deepti - 2009

Food security is defined as economic access to food along with food production and food availability. Agriculture in the SAR (South Asian Region) is caught in a low equilibrium trap with low productivity of staples, supply shortfalls, high prices, low returns to farmers and area diversification...

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South African food security and climate change: Agriculture futures

Dube, Sikhalazo; Scholes, Robert J.; Nelson, Gerald C.; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-35, pp. 1-54

The projected changes in planted area, yield per area, net exports/imports and prices for five major agricultural crops in South Africa were simulated using the projections of four Global Circulation Models (GCMs) under three socio-economic scenarios. The GCM projections show consistent strong...

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Willingness to Pay for Agricultural Environmental Safety: Evidence from a Survey of Milan, Italy, Residents

Travisi, Chiara M.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2004

The widespread use of pesticides in agriculture provides a particularly complex pattern of multidimensional negative side-effects, ranging from food safety related effects to the deterioration of farmland ecosystems. The assessment of the economic implications of such negative processes is...

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Willingness to pay for Agricultural Environmental Safety

Travisi, Chiara M.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2004

The widespread use of pesticides in agriculture provides a particularly complex pattern of multidimensionalnegative side-effects, ranging from food safety related effects to the deterioratian of farmland ecosystems.The assessment of the economic implications of such negative processes is fraught...

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Is fish brain food or brain poison? Sea surface temperature, methyl-mercury and child cognitive development

Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Santos, Rafael J. - 2020

We exploit variation in the composition of local fish catches around the time of birth using largescale administrative and census data on adult cognitive test scores, schooling attainment, and occupation among coastal populations in Colombia to estimate the distinct causal effects of...

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Household responses to information on child nutrition: Experimental evidence from Malawi

Fitzsimons, Emla; Malde, Bansi; Mesnard, Alice; … - 2012

Malawi which provides mothers with information on infant nutrition and health. It finds that the intervention results in …

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The Effect of Economic Crises on Nutritional Status : Evidence from Russia

Stillman, Steven; Thomas, Duncan - 2004

measures of nutrition – gross energy intake, two dimensions of diet quality, body mass index (BMI), which is a measure of net …

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Is the Child Health / Family Income Gradient Universal? : Evidence from England

Currie, Alison; Shields, Michael A.; Price, Stephen Wheatley - 2004

evidence that nutrition and family lifestyle choices have an important role in determining child health and that child health …

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A bioeconomic foundation of the Malthusian equilibrium : body size and population size in the long-run

Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - 2007

This paper develops a bioeconomic 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 size and fertility. The theory admits a unique Malthusian...

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