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The Effects of 2016-2017 Rice Price Increase on Household Welfare and Poverty in Rural Bangladesh
Iqbal, Md Zabid - 2018
This study assesses the impact of rice price shock on household welfare in rural Bangladesh using the first- and second-order welfare measures and 2015 Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey (BIHS) data. We find that the increase in rice price reduces the welfare of the households and increases...
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Categorizing households into different food security states in Nigeria : the socio-economic and demographic determinants
Ogundari, Kolawole - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 5 (2017) 8, pp. 1-20
The literature reiterates the need to employ indicators that reflect the multidimensional nature of food security. In a quest to capture the multidimensional nature of food security, this study uses a novel ideal that harmonizes two food security indicators (food expenditure (FOODexp) and...
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Estimating Household Food Waste Using Food Acquisition Data
Yu, Yang - 2019
Measuring food waste at the individual household level has been nearly impossible because comprehensive, current data on uneaten food do not exist. By using food acquisition data, this article employs a new approach to estimating household-level food waste via a stochastic production frontier...
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Givers of Great Dinners Know Few Enemies : The Impact of Household Food Sufficiency and Food Sharing on Low-Intensity Inter-Household and Community Conflict in Eastern Democratic R...
Fatema, Naureen - 2020
Our study establishes a linkage between household level food sufficiency and food sharing behavior with the reduction of low-intensity micro level conflict using primary data from 1763 households of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. We first examine if food sufficient households are less...
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Household Food Waste and Inefficiencies in Food Production
Smith, Travis; Landry, Craig E. - 2020
This paper investigates household food waste in the context of inefficient food production. Food waste is typically defined as the proportion of edible food that goes unconsumed, whereas inefficiency is measured by a household's inability to reach some technically efficient production frontier....
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Women empowerment and intra-household dietary diversity in Nigeria
Tanankem, Belmondo V.; Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; … - 2016
This study used a nationally representative survey from the 2012-2013 World Bank's General Household Survey for Nigeria, to examine the relationship between empowerment, measured using a modification of the Alkire et al. (2013) empowerment index, and household dietary diversity, based on the FAO...
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Effects of the COVID-19 crisis on household food consumption and child nutrition in Mozambique
Squarcina, Margherita; Egger, Eva-Maria - 2022
children's nutrition using the case of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mozambique. In response to the economic downturn, households … child nutrition before and after the pandemic. The results show that there has been a significant reduction in household …
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Household income diversification strategies, welfare and child nutrition in Uganda : a dynamic panel analysis 2005-2020
Mukoki, James; Mukisa, Ibrahim; Ssebulime, Kurayish; … - In: International journal of empirical economics 2 (2023) 4, pp. 1-38
diversification strategies on household welfare and health outcomes (i.e. child nutrition) for both rural and urban dwellers. Thus … nutrition. Eight waves of the Uganda National Panel Survey (2005/06-2019/20) dataset collected by the Uganda Bureau of … improve child nutrition status. By and large, the results point to the fact that households should at least run a diversified …
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Coping with food and nutrition insecurity in Zimbabwe : does household head gender matter?
Kairiza, Terrence; Kembo, George D. - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 7 (2019) 24, pp. 1-16
in the vulnerability to food and nutrition insecurity, usage of consumption-based and livelihoods-based coping strategies … and nutrition insecurity. The study offers three main findings. Firstly, female-headed households are more susceptible to … food and nutrition insecurity than those headed by males. Secondly, female-headed households are more likely to employ …
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Temporary migration decisions and effects on household income and diets in rural Bangladesh
Rana, Md. Sohel; Faye, Amy; Qaim, Matin - 2024
Temporary migration is a widely observed phenomenon among poor rural households, mostly related to agricultural seasonality. However, household preferences for temporary migration in comparison to longer-term migration, and the differential effects of these migrations on household livelihoods...
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