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Policies for encouraging healthier food choices
Giner, Céline; Brooks, Jonathan - 2019
obesity epidemics? This report briefly examines the evidence base on unhealthy diets, including the associated burden on …
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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
-nutrition to various forms of malnutrition and obesity, these countries face different challenges when it comes to food and …
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Food (di)lemmas : disentangling the Italian Local Food Policy narratives
Mazzocchi, Giampiero; Giarè, Francesca; Sardone, Roberta; … - In: Italian review of agricultural economics 78 (2023) 3, pp. 19-34
Recently, food-related policy initiatives have proliferated, such as food strategies, food plans, food councils, food districts and food communities, just to name the more relevant ones. Far from being systematically defined and logically systematized, these concepts often overlap or are used as...
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Globalization in the food sector and poverty
Dörr, Leo; Maennig, Wolfgang - 2024
This paper provides new evidence on the globalization‒poverty nexus. We innovate by using an indicator of globalization in the food sector, finding evidence of a significantly aggravating impact on poverty prev-alence, adding to earlier studies that use indicators of general...
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Do Food Stamps Contribute to Obesity in Low-Income Women? Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979
Fan, Maoyong - 2015
High prevalence of obesity in female Food Stamp Program (FSP) participants has led to the question of whether or not … estimates the effects of food stamp benefits on obesity, overweight and body mass index (BMI) of low-income women. Contrary to … previous results, we find little evidence that the FSP causes obesity, overweight or higher BMI. Our analysis differs from …
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The Vanishing Weight Gap : Trends in Obesity among Adult Food Stamp Participants (US) (1976-2002)
Ver Ploeg, Michele L.; Mancino, Lisa - 2010
High rates of obesity among low-income populations have led some to question whether USDA's food assistance programs …
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Taxing Sweets : Sweetener Input Tax or Final Consumption Tax?
Miao, Zhen; Beghin, John; Jensen, Helen H. - 2010
Policymakers are considering various policies to reduce obesity and its associated costs, including consumption taxes …
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Evolution and critique of buffer stocking policy of India
Saini, Shweta; Kozicka, Marta - 2014
India's economic standing and its policy landscape have come a long way since the 1943 Bengal famine. History saw buffer stocking of food grains as a famine-combating tool. Today, apart from serving as an effective hedge in times of famines, such grain stocks are a conduit deployed by the...
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The National Food Security Act (NFSA) 2013 : challenges, buffer stocking and the way forward
Saini, Shweta; Gulati, Ashok - 2015
The National Food Security Act (NFSA) 2013 combines and expands the scope of some existing food-based welfare schemes. It will be distributing raw rations, meal(s) and/or cash. Approximately 81.35 crore persons or 16.57 crore households are to benefit under the targeted public distribution...
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Political Economy of Public Policies : Insights from Distortions to Agricultural and Food Markets
Anderson, Kym - 2013
The agricultural and food sector is an ideal case for investigating the political economy of public policies. Many of the policy developments in this sector since the 1950s have been sudden and transformational, while others have been gradual but persistent. This article reviews and synthesizes...
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