revolution may affect dietary patterns and nutrition, but empirical evidence is scarce. The few existing studies have analyzed … understanding. Reviewing recent evidence from Kenya, we show that buying food in supermarkets instead of traditional outlets … contributes to overnutrition among adults, while reducing undernutrition among children. For farm households, supplying …

details of these agriculture-nutrition-health linkages are not yet well understood. While there is a broad literature on the …Agricultural innovations are seen as a key avenue to improve nutrition and health in smallholder farm households. But … adoption of agricultural technologies, most studies primarily focus on impacts in terms of productivity and income. Nutrition …

in Sub-Saharan Africa. Food insecurity remains a major issue among African smallholders. Mobile phones could potentially … facilitate access to food markets and thus improve food security and nutrition, but research on such types of effects remains … scarce. In this study we analyze whether mobile phones improve dietary quality of pastoralists in Northern Kenya. We use six …

, 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 … outcomes substantially and that this neglected agriculture-nutrition linkage deserves more scientific and political attention …

. Even more important, although under-nutrition retains a strong spatial component, once observable differences in living …South Africa is one of only a handful of countries in which the prevalence of child stunting has increased over the … stunting differs between urban (14.9%) and rural (19.6%) areas and how the drivers of poor nutrition vary spatially. The …

attention to how the prevalence of under-nutrition differs between urban and rural areas and how the drivers of poor nutrition …. Even more important, although under-nutrition retains a strong spatial component, once observable differences in living …One explanation for the increasing prevalence of stunting in South Africa over the past 15 years while other …

-communicable diseases, including diabetes, heart diseases and certain cancers. Given the still prevailing rates of under-nutrition, affected …Many low income countries are experiencing a “nutrition transition” towards the consumption of more energy … consequences of the nutrition transition have been expanding waistlines and surging rates of nutrition-related non …

. Here, we analyze effects of supermarkets on child nutrition with panel data from medium-sized towns in Kenya. Instrumental …. Supermarkets do not seem to be a driver of childhood obesity in Kenya. The positive effects of supermarkets on child nutrition are … to be a major nutrition problem in developing countries that is declining more slowly than child underweight …

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 …