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Famines Without Shortages
Hashimzade, Nigar - 2010
We present a model that describes features common to many famines: (i) a famine may occur without a substantial decline in aggregate food availability; (ii) famines often have a very uneven impact on different groups of population; and (iii) expectations about future food markets affect current...
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Wealth distribution, peasant production and poverty traps in African smallholder agriculture
Hoogeveen, Johannes - 1999
A model is developed for peasant households in land abundant areas who choose between two technologies for land preparation: a manual one and one using draught animals. For draught a minimum number of animals is required so that a technological non convexity exists. It follows that certain...
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On the microeconomics of food and malnutrition under endogenous discounting
Chavas, Jean-Paul - In: European economic review : EER 59 (2013), pp. 80-96
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Calorie requirements
1950
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Handbook on human nutritional requirements
Passmore, Reginald; Nicol, Bruce Milligan; Narayana Rao, M. - 1974
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Optimizing Pantawid for Nutrition
Cho, Yoonyoung - 2020
five is stunted, and the rate is significantly higher among children from low income households. The undernutrition … safety net program, Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), has a great potential to improve nutrition outcomes of … raising caregiver's knowledge and awareness on nutrition through family development sessions. There was strong evidence of the …
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Hunger : The Biology and Politics of Starvation
Butterly, John R - 2010
Physiology of Nutrition -- [5] Agriculture The Birth of Civilization . . .and Famine -- Lessons from the Great Irish Famine [1845 …A timely and provocative look at the role political developments and the biology of nutrition play in world famine. …-1850] The Causes of Starvation -- Part II:The Crisis of Nutrition -- [3] The Basics of Nutrition -- [4] The Anatomy and …
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Forecasting profitability
Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Christopher - 2013
We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...
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Forecasting profitability
Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Chris - 2013
We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...
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Food deficits, food security and food aid : concepts and measurement
Gabbert, Silke; Weikard, Hans-Peter - 1998
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