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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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food availability is increasing or decreasing. Using data from China, we find that overall dietary knowledge has larger and …, and protein) when expected food availability increases than when it decreases. Without distinguishing the direction of … changes in expected food availability, most of the corresponding effects become smaller and statistically insignificant. Thus …
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The aime of this paper is to compare the impact of food price policies on the nutritional quality of food baskets … medium–income (n=33) women selected a daily food basket at current prices and then at policy prices. Energy density (ED) and …
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and other food and nutrition programmes. Bibliography and statistical tables. …ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on basic needs satisfaction and industrialization policy regarding food products in … Mexico - analyses food consumption among low income families and income distribution and indicates changes in habits …
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The environmental impact of food consumption depends on the type of foods consumed and the amount of food wasted. It … follows that dietary change represents one means of directing food systems towards greater environmental sustainability. The … better, and identify potential target groups for intervention, we have analysed the environmental impact of food consumption …
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calories per Rupee of food expenditure compared to their non-migrant neighbors, even for households with very low caloric …
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A flexible, full rank two model of food consumption that is globally consistent with economic theory, aggregates across … nutrition is derived. The econometric demand model is estimated with per capita U.S. consumption of 21 foods on the time period … individual commodities in the U.S. food supply is derived and implemented empirically on the time period 1949-1995 for the …
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One of the most enchanting areas in economics is the forward thinking. While Malthus and Ricardo agreed on the gloomy vision of the future, Mill described the wider stationary state and foresaw it in a more optimistic way. Space sciences and improvements in our technology provided us with the...
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There is an uneven geographical distribution of health workers. The shortage of health workers is compounded by the fact that their skills, competencies, clinical experience, and expectations are often poorly suited to the health needs of the populations they serve. All such problems are taken...
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health crisis caused by modern Western food habits and lifestyle. The low-carbohydrate literature demonstrates a powerful … a putative \'modern Western diet\'. The binary opposition set up between modern Western food habits and a traditional … romantic \'nutritional nostalgia\' (Beardsworth 2002) of the diet books, and dieters\' own food practices. …
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