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Livestock products and fish form an important component of urban consumers’ diet accounting for about one third of the total monthly budgetary expenditure on food. The budgetary share of livestock products increases with affluence or household income while the opposite is true for fish; 2) The...
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Rapid urbanization in Zambia means that increasingly heavy demands are being placed on urban food marketing systems …
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age of five suffer from severe acute malnutrition About half a million pregnant and lactating women suffer from anaemia …
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This study makes use of linear programming methodology to design a minimum cost diet for the Central Ugandan region. We used a set of constraints on recommended levels of daily nutrient intake, recommended proportions of groups of foods, as well as preferences and food availability in Central...
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After two decades of de-urbanization, Zambia is again becoming increasingly urban. While the urban share of the … population fell to 35% in 2000 due primarily to the decline of the copper industry, over half of Zambia’s people will be residing … and improved urban food marketing system performance in Zambia will need to take into consideration the demand patterns of …
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Food systems in developing countries are transforming, involving a rapid expansion of supermarkets. This supermarket revolution may affect dietary patterns and nutrition, but empirical evidence is scarce. The few existing studies have analyzed implications for food consumers and producers...
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We analyze how the nutrition transition affects child malnutrition in developing countries. It is often assumed that …
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Food systems in developing countries are transforming, involving a rapid expansion of supermarkets. This supermarket revolution may affect dietary patterns and nutrition, but empirical evidence is scarce. The few existing studies have analyzed implications for food consumers and producers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011068519
the poor on forest resources. Studies of the role of forest products in household welfare in Zambia have found that such … role of non-timber forest products NTFPs) in rural household welfare in Zambia, with two main objectives. First, using …
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Rural poverty rates in Zambia have remained very high, at 80%, over the past decade and a half, whilst urban poverty … dynamics that have improved the welfare of small-scale farm households in Zambia, combined with an agenda for disseminating … Zambia households. …
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