economic food and fibre. In addition to discussing dietary requirements and why phytophagous insects feed on plants, this paper … determines its economic importance. The food ingested and digested by the insect must fulfil its nutritional requirements for … insects therefore feed to satisfy their requirements for essential nutrients and in doing so destroy enormous amounts of …

Market-based approaches to food security often increase agricultural productivity and income yet sometimes fail to … enhance nutrition. When food security programming combines market and food systems with a specific focus on women and girls …, economic and nutrition outcomes benefit. We identify distinctive and shared elements from market and food systems and highlight …

household nutrition have received much less attention. We evaluate the impact of commercialization on household food security …. Commercialization significantly improves food security and dietary quality in terms of calorie, zinc, and iron consumption. For vitamin …

Food systems are expected to provide food security and nutrition, to contribute to the livelihoods of millions, and to … exists on how better policies can improve the performance of food systems. But there are considerable gaps in data and … evidence. This paper provides a panoramic overview of different types of evidence gaps on food systems and their causes, and …

This paper explores the microeconomics and dynamics of food and nutrition. It examines the linkages between …

, while 1000 respondents were asked to choose the desired product variant in three categories - cereals, yoghurts and protein … resulted in choosing the best product (for cereals from 47% to 49%; for yoghurts from 28% to 31%; for bars from 28% to 42%) and … more effective system because it has a stronger positive impact on consumers' choices. For cereals, the selection improved …