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. While such diversification is often beneficial for household incomes, the consequences for household nutrition are less … livelihood diversification affects nutrition is still scarce. To address this gap, we first develop a conceptual framework that … market access in explaining household nutrition. Then, we use panel data from the rural-urban interface (RUI) of Bangalore in …
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Food security and nutrition policy interventions generally rely on selective measures. Yet recent literature emphasizes … the importance of identifying different pathways from agriculture to nutrition for better nutritional outcomes. Using a … food security indicators along the agriculture-nutrition pathways. Through a broadened and comprehensive approach under one …
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In the context of developing countries multiple pathways have been proposed from the agriculture to the nutrition …
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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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deprivation and poverty, and argue against delinking of the two. We analyse poverty nutrition traps, whether child undernutrition …
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undernutrition in India relative to sub-Saharan Africa. Jayachandran & Pande argue that the key to the Indian enigma lies in the …
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Hunger afflicts hundreds of millions of people around the world. However, the very concept of hunger is difficult to define, and in fact the whole issue of hunger has been subsumed under the more comprehensive concept of food security. This paper retraces the history of this concept, from its...
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Equality for women in all areas of life is not only a fundamental human right, but is also a crucial prerequisite for achieving human development goals. Women constitute half of the world population and about 43 percent of the agricultural labor force, which makes the importance of research into...
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