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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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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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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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revolution may affect dietary patterns and nutrition, but empirical evidence is scarce. The few existing studies have analyzed … supermarkets causes improvements in dietary quality. The results underline that supermarkets influence nutrition in multiple ways …
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can raise public awareness of the problem, highlight policymakers' duty to ensure the nutrition of their citizens, and … link proper nutrition to general national development. This report should serve as a resource for advocates, researchers …
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Many developing countries use food price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However …
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, research on the implications for people's diets and nutrition is still scant. Here, we analyze the effects of supermarkets on … child diets and nutrition in China. We use nationally representative panel data that include information on households … child dietary quality and nutrition in China. …
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contexts. Here, we analyze the role of markets and food environments for child diets and nutrition in Malawi along an urban … anthropometric data collected through a household survey. We find large differences in food environments and diet and nutrition …
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We analyze how the nutrition transition affects child malnutrition in developing countries. It is often assumed that … the nutrition transition affects child weight but not child growth, which could be one reason why child underweight … regressions show that the nutrition transition reduces child underweight, while no consistent effect on child overweight is found …
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