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Can household food security predict individual undernutrition? : evidence from Cambodia and Lao PDR
Bühler, Dorothee; Hartje, Rebecca; Grote, Ulrike - 2017
This paper uses a novel data set of marginalized households from Cambodia and Lao PDR to better understand different food security concepts. The multitude of indicators available raises the question how these indicators relate to each other and whether they are suitable to detect undernutrition...
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The Indian enigma revisited
Grafenstein, Liza von; Klasen, Stephan; Hoddinott, John - 2022
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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Chapter 40 Food security and food assistance programs
Barrett, Christopher B. - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 2, part B, …, (pp. 2103-2190). 2002
Widespread hunger and malnutrition persist today despite considerable growth in per capita food availability. This has prompted an evolving conceptualization of food security and of mechanisms to attain and maintain food security. This chapter discusses both food security and food assistance...
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Nutrition effects of the supermarket revolution on urban consumers and smallholder farmers in Kenya
Qaim, Matin; Andersson, Camilla I. M.; Chege, Christine … - 2014
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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Hunger Amidst Plenty : World Trends in Undernourishment and Malnutrition
Maletta, Hector E. - 2020
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Methodological review and revision of the global hunger index
Wiesmann, Doris; Biesalski, Hans-Konrad - 2015
The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a multidimensional measure of hunger that considers three dimensions: (1) inadequate dietary energy supply, (2) child undernutrition, and (3) child mortality. The initial version of the index included the following three, equally weighted, non-standardized (i.e....
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Methodological Review and Revision of the Global Hunger Index
Wiesmann, Doris; Biesalski, Hans; von Grebmer, Klaus; … - 2015
The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a multidimensional measure of hunger that considers three dimensions: (1) inadequate dietary energy supply, (2) child undernutrition, and (3) child mortality. The initial version of the index included the following three, equally weighted, non-standardized (i.e....
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Beyond calories : the new economics of nutrition
Finaret, Amelia B.; Masters, William Alan - In: Annual review of resource economics 11 (2019), pp. 237-259
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From food availability to nutritional capabilities : advancing food security analysis
Burchi, Francesco; De Muro, Pasquale - In: Food policy : economics planning and politics of food … 60 (2016), pp. 10-19
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Early-life famine exposure, hunger recall and later-life health
Deng, Zichen; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2021 - This version: Monday 14th June, 2021
can deal with heterogeneous samples. We find a non-linear relationship between mortality rates, a commonly used famine … indicator, and the individual hunger experience. The nonlinearity in famine exposure may explain the variation in the famine …'s effect on later life health found in previous studies. We also find that exposure to famine-induced hunger early in life …
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