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Does Organic Farming Jeopardize Food and Nutrition Security?
Aihounton, Ghislain B. D.; Henningsen, Arne - 2023
on food and nutrition security are not yet understood. Using data from smallholder cotton farmers in Benin, we … empirically investigate how adopting organic farming affects their food and nutrition security. Our results indicate that adopting … diets. Evaluating pathways, we find that the decreased food and nutrition security is likely caused by lower household …
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Can Crop Purchase Programs Reduce Poverty and Improve Welfare in Rural Communities? Evidence from the Food Reserve Agency in Zambia
Fung, Winnie - 2015
The last decade has seen a resurgence of parastatal crop marketing institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, many of which cite improving food security and incomes as key goals. However, there is limited empirical evidence on the welfare effects of these programs. This article considers one such...
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Moving Toward Food Democracy : Better Food, New Farmers, and the Myth of Feeding the World
Hamilton, Neil D. - 2015
Hamilton’s essay begins with a reflection on food and society. He writes of the effect of modernization and industry on the relationship America has with food. What once was a centerpiece of our economic independence, family life, and health is now merely an afterthought. Quality and trust in...
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Better Together : Improving Food Security and Nutrition by Linking Market and Food Systems
Lynn, Monty - 2020
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 … how they enhance nutrition outcomes when they are combined. We describe food security programming by CARE and World Vision …
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The Economics of Malnutrition : Dietary Transition and Food System Transformation
Masters, William A.; Finaret, Amelia B.; Block, Steven - 2022
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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Food for work and diet diversity in Ethiopia
Legesse Debela, Bethelhem; Shively, Gerald E.; Holden, … - 2017
In the last decades global food value chains have seen the need for increasing vertical coordination in order to secure quality standards. A prominent way to govern the relationships between farmers and agri-business firms are farming contracts. We study the role of trust, risk and time...
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Farm production diversity and dietary quality in smallholder farm households
Sibhatu, Kibrom Tadesse - 2016
Investments in agricultural modernization have resulted in remarkable progress in food production over the last century. As a consequence, the global number and the proportion of undernourished people has fallen significantly. Despite this progress, providing sufficient and nutritiously diverse...
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When a short-term analysis is not a shortterm approach impacts of agricultural technology adoption in Bolivia
Aramburu, Julián; González Flores, Mario; Salazar, Lina; … - 2014
This paper presents the results of an impact evaluation for the CRIAR program, implemented in rural areas in Bolivia. The objective of this program is to increase the agricultural income and food security of smallholder farmers through productivity gains that result from technological adoption....
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Food security and productivity impacts of technology adoption in small subsistence farmers in Bolivia
Salazar, Lina; Aramburu, Julián; González-Flores, Mario; … - 2015
This paper presents the impact evaluation of CRIAR program, implemented in rural areas in Bolivia. The objective of CRIAR is to increase smallholders' agricultural income and food security through productivity improvements triggered by technological adoption. In this study, we use data from a...
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Transferencias de ganado, seguridad alimentaria y empoderamiento de la mujer : evidencia de un programa de entrada aleatoria por fases en Nicaragua
Salazar, Lina; Fahsbender, Jossie; Kim, Namho - 2018
This paper explores the impact of a livestock transfer program , that targeted small - holder female farmers with high levels of food insecurity in Nicaragua . For this purpose, the three dimensions of food security are assessed (i.e. access, availability and food use ) . The analysis uses a...
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