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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 … outcomes substantially and that this neglected agriculture-nutrition linkage deserves more scientific and political attention …
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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 …
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-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 …
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We analyze how the nutrition transition affects child malnutrition in developing countries. It is often assumed that … the nutrition transition affects child weight but not child growth, which could be one reason why child underweight … regressions show that the nutrition transition reduces child underweight, while no consistent effect on child overweight is found …
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children's nutrition using the case of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mozambique. In response to the economic downturn, households …, reducing diet diversification and increasing the exposure to malnutrition, mainly for children. Empirical evidence on such … child nutrition before and after the pandemic. The results show that there has been a significant reduction in household …
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burden of micronutrient imbalances. The triple burden of undernutrition, obesity, and unbalanced micronutrients that …
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