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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 … nutrition and health dimensions more explicitly. A conceptual framework is developed to clarify possible impact pathways …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant changes in where people work, eat and socialise. We use novel data on the food and non-alcoholic drink purchases from stores, takeaways, restaurants and other outlets to quantify the impact of the pandemic on the diets of a large, representative panel...
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management for improved health and nutrition. We focus on rural and peri-urban areas of the developing world, where multi … the trade-offs between specific uses and their implications for health and nutrition, based on the gender and age of … agricultural activities, and health and nutrition. To that end, we compile data from four household surveys we collected in the …
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discriminate between the theoretical parameters. Differences in health knowledge appear to be responsible for the greatest part of … the education disparity in diet. However, when faced with the most explicit health information regarding diet, lower … educated individuals still state choices that imply a lower concern for negative health consequences. This is consistent with a …
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, agriculture-nutrition linkages have received a lot of attention in recent years. Researchers have analysed the link between the … third agriculture-nutrition link has been largely neglected in recent years: the impact of how food is produced on human … timeuse as well as food and nutrition data was collected from male and female adults and from children during different …
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This paper re-enters the contested discussion surrounding the Indian Enigma, the high prevalence of chronic undernutrition in India relative to sub-Saharan Africa. Jayachandran & Pande argue that the key to the Indian enigma lies in the worse treatment of higher birth order children,...
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experimental evidence on child health and human capital outcomes from the longer-term follow-up of a school-based nutrition …Long-term follow-up of early childhood health interventions is important for human capital accumulation. We provide …
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Does media exposure affect health behaviours? And how? We exploit the idiosyncratic switchover to digital television …-recipes. Our findings question the health-related negative stereotypes often associated with TV exposure and highlight its … potential as a brand-new health policy lever. …
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