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Implications of food-for-work programs for consumption and production diversity : evidence from the Tigray Region of Ethiopia
Legesse Debela, Bethelhem; Shively, Gerald E.; Holden, … - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 9 (2021), pp. 1-24
Food-based transfer programs have the potential to change diets or alter basic crop mixes. This study empirically investigates the associations between participating in food-for-work (FFW) programs and the diversity of food consumption and production. Four waves of panel data from the Tigray...
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Can Crop Purchase Programs Reduce Poverty and Improve Welfare in Rural Communities? Evidence from the Food Reserve Agency in Zambia
Fung, Winnie - 2015
The last decade has seen a resurgence of parastatal crop marketing institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, many of which cite improving food security and incomes as key goals. However, there is limited empirical evidence on the welfare effects of these programs. This article considers one such...
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Moving Toward Food Democracy : Better Food, New Farmers, and the Myth of Feeding the World
Hamilton, Neil D. - 2015
Hamilton’s essay begins with a reflection on food and society. He writes of the effect of modernization and industry on the relationship America has with food. What once was a centerpiece of our economic independence, family life, and health is now merely an afterthought. Quality and trust in...
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Better Together : Improving Food Security and Nutrition by Linking Market and Food Systems
Lynn, Monty - 2020
enhance nutrition. When food security programming combines market and food systems with a specific focus on women and girls …, economic and nutrition outcomes benefit. We identify distinctive and shared elements from market and food systems and highlight … how they enhance nutrition outcomes when they are combined. We describe food security programming by CARE and World Vision …
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The Economics of Malnutrition : Dietary Transition and Food System Transformation
Masters, William A.; Finaret, Amelia B.; Block, Steven - 2022
Rapid increases in food supplies have reduced global hunger, while rising burdens of diet-related disease have made poor diet quality the leading cause of death and disability around the world. Today’s 'double burden' of undernourishment in utero and early childhood then undesired weight gain...
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Food for work and diet diversity in Ethiopia
Legesse Debela, Bethelhem; Shively, Gerald E.; Holden, … - 2017
In the last decades global food value chains have seen the need for increasing vertical coordination in order to secure quality standards. A prominent way to govern the relationships between farmers and agri-business firms are farming contracts. We study the role of trust, risk and time...
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Vulnerability and resilience to food and nutrition insecurity : a review of the literature towards a unified framework
Montalbano, Pierluigi; Romano, Donato - In: Bio-based and applied economics 11 (2022) 4, pp. 303-322
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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Does market access improve dietary diversity and food security? : evidence from Southwestern Ethiopian smallholder coffee producers
Usman, Muhammed Abdella; Callo-Concha, Daniel - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 9 (2021), pp. 1-21
Market access influences the dietary diversity and food security for smallholder households in many ways. In Ethiopia, most smallholders are subsistence farmers who have poor access to markets. This study used primary data from a household survey to examine the relationship between market access...
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Food and nutrition security in Eurasia: evolution, shocks and policies
Burkitbayeva, Saule; Swinnen, Johan F. M.; Warrinnier, Nele - In: Russian journal of economics 6 (2020) 1, pp. 6-25
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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Association between irrigated farming and improved nutrition in farm households in Malawi
Benson, Todd - In: Agrekon : agricultural economics research, policy and … 54 (2015) 3, pp. 62-86
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