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The dietary impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate; Stroud, Rebekah - 2021
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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SNAP Work Requirement and Food Insecurity
Das, Debasmita - 2022
In this paper, I examine the effect of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) work requirement reinstatement …
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Behavioral Food Subsidies
Brownback, Andy - 2020
We conduct a pre-registered field experiment with low-income grocery shoppers to study how behavioral interventions can improve the effectiveness of healthy food subsidies. Our unique design enables us to elicit choices and deliver subsidies both before and at the point of purchase. We examine...
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Food Preference and Nutrition in India
Paul, Sourabh - 2015
I present some estimates for India that demonstrate that structural changes in the impact of income on food demand have been significant factors driving the changes in dietary patterns in this rapidly growing economy. A Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System is estimated for six food groups. The...
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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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Exploring the role of individual food security in the assessment of population's food safety
Bobe, Magdalena; Procopie, Roxana; Bucur, Mihaela - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 21 (2019) 51, pp. 347-360
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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Food security perspectives in Sub-Saharan Africa
Popp, József; Oláh, Judit; Kiss, Anna; Lakner, Zoltán - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 21 (2019) 51, pp. 361-376
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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Effects of the COVID-19 crisis on household food consumption and child nutrition in Mozambique
Squarcina, Margherita; Egger, Eva-Maria - 2022
children's nutrition using the case of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mozambique. In response to the economic downturn, households … child nutrition before and after the pandemic. The results show that there has been a significant reduction in household …
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Social safety nets for food and nutritional security in India
Narayanan, Sudha; Gerber, Nicolas - 2016
, health and nutrition of beneficiaries. Both programs operate on a large scale and have the capacity to impact the factors …-scale programs on health and nutrition. The evidence that exists suggests largely positive impacts indicating a clear potential to … make these programs more nutrition sensitive not just by incorporating elements that would explicitly address nutritional …
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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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