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revolution may affect dietary patterns and nutrition, but empirical evidence is scarce. The few existing studies have analyzed … supermarkets causes improvements in dietary quality. The results underline that supermarkets influence nutrition in multiple ways …
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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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Current approaches to measuring food and nutrition security (FNS) mainly consider past access to food, while assessing … dynamic (time axiom); conditioned to various factors (access axiom); applicable to various measures of food and nutrition as …
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Ensuring a sufficient level of food for the population in both quantitative and qualitative terms is a priority for most countries as well as for governmental and non-governmental bodies – be they national, regional or international. The United Nations (UN) stresses the fact that one of the...
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The state of global food security has been considerably improved in the last decades; however, these achievements are attributable to the “green revolutions” in Latin-America and Asia. The food shortage has remained persistent in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the proliferation of...
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Food and nutrition security is at the forefront of policy making around the globe. This study focuses on a number of … Eurasian countries, namely the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. From under-nutrition … nutrition security. Over the last three decades, their situations have been affected by a number of important income shocks …
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nutrition (GPN). Foresight studies agree that it will be challenging to transform the agri-food system into one that is …
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contexts. Here, we analyze the role of markets and food environments for child diets and nutrition in Malawi along an urban … anthropometric data collected through a household survey. We find large differences in food environments and diet and nutrition …
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