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Review : Retail consumer price data reveal gaps and opportunities to monitor food systems for nutrition
Bai, Yan; Costlow, Leah; Ebel, Alissa; Laves, Sarah; … - 2021
) to guide economic policy, but use of these data to improve food markets and nutrition has been limited. This study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235524
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Measuring the Affordability of Nutritious Diets in Africa : Price Indexes for Diet Diversity and the Cost of Nutrient Adequacy
Masters, William A. - 2019
Policies and programs often aim to improve the affordability of nutritious diets, but existing food price indexes are based on observed quantities which may not meet nutritional goals. To measure changes in the cost of reaching international standards of diet quality, we introduce a new Cost of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012901870
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Trade and dietary diversity in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Krivonos, Ekaterina; Kuhn, Lena - 2019
In public and academic debates, the linkages between agricultural markets and nutrition across the world are vividly … agricultural markets and consumer behaviour. Reduction in trade barriers, for instance in the context of the accession to the WTO … and the EU, and the gradual integration with world markets after 1991 had implications for diets through changes in …
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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 to various forms of malnutrition and obesity,...
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Are vegetable seed oils fueling the obesity epidemic?
Ransom, Tyler - 2024
I argue that increased consumption of vegetable seed oils high in omega-6 polyunsaturated fats has driven obesity in the United States, a link overlooked in the economics literature. Obesity rates have closely tracked the level of seed oils in the food supply since 1960, while diverging from...
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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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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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In-kind transfer and child development : evidence from subsidized rice program in Indonesia
Gupta, Prachi; Huang, Bihong - 2018
In the aftermath of the Asian financial crises, the Indonesian government launched a subsidized rice program called … started receiving the subsidized rice in the early years of childhood. …
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Policies for encouraging healthier food choices
Giner, Céline; Brooks, Jonathan - 2019
What is the role of government policies in encouraging healthier food choices to fight the current overweight and obesity epidemics? This report briefly examines the evidence base on unhealthy diets, including the associated burden on health systems. It then takes stock of current knowledge on...
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