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Does predicted global warming imply more hunger in the future of Latin America? Climate projections prepared by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are briefly presented, along with an analysis of existing estimates of their probable impact on agriculture and food...
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Although linked to poverty as conditions reflecting inadequate access to resources to obtain food, issues such as …
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This article mainly focuses on the concept of development keeping in view the basic right to food of an individual … right and not just arbitrarily and blindfolded crave for development. A balance has to be struck between both. The article …
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Remittances are a significant source of income for many families in Latin America and are worthy of close attention by those who care about food security in the region. This brief article explores the complicated relationship between remittances, food intake among recipient families, and food...
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barriers to realizing this right. Conventional poverty metrics are designed around food consumption inadequate for lifelong … health. We propose poverty lines based on the cost of a healthy diet and explore their key metrics such as headcount ratios … and the poverty gap. According to our proposed poverty lines, 2,283 to 2,865 million people were poor in 2022, facing a …
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Distribution System (PDS) and the Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDM) - on poverty outcomes and on nutritional intake. This paper offers a … the significant impact of the PDS and MDM in terms of poverty reduction and calorie intake. While there are large … also contributed significantly to poverty reduction. Almost half of the poverty reduction in the distribution …
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accordingly, over two thirds of them are at risk of poverty. The structural causes of poverty must be addressed to ensure that … food banks do not reach their limit. Increasing the standard rate for welfare benefits and providing targeted support …
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cite improving food security and incomes as key goals. However, there is limited empirical evidence on the welfare effects … effects of the FRA's maize marketing activities on smallholder farm household welfare. Results suggest that FRA activities … have positive direct welfare effects on the small minority of smallholder households that are able to sell to it. However …
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deprivation and poverty, and argue against delinking of the two. We analyse poverty nutrition traps, whether child undernutrition …
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price surge and various policy options on the performance of the main macroeconomic indicators as well as on poverty …
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