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Implications of food-for-work programs for consumption and production diversity : evidence from the Tigray Region of Ethiopia
Legesse Debela, Bethelhem; Shively, Gerald E.; Holden, … - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 9 (2021), pp. 1-24
Food-based transfer programs have the potential to change diets or alter basic crop mixes. This study empirically investigates the associations between participating in food-for-work (FFW) programs and the diversity of food consumption and production. Four waves of panel data from the Tigray...
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Vulnerability and resilience to food and nutrition insecurity : a review of the literature towards a unified framework
Montalbano, Pierluigi; Romano, Donato - In: Bio-based and applied economics 11 (2022) 4, pp. 303-322
Current approaches to measuring food and nutrition security (FNS) mainly consider past access to food, while assessing … dynamic (time axiom); conditioned to various factors (access axiom); applicable to various measures of food and nutrition as …
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Does market access improve dietary diversity and food security? : evidence from Southwestern Ethiopian smallholder coffee producers
Usman, Muhammed Abdella; Callo-Concha, Daniel - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 9 (2021), pp. 1-21
Market access influences the dietary diversity and food security for smallholder households in many ways. In Ethiopia, most smallholders are subsistence farmers who have poor access to markets. This study used primary data from a household survey to examine the relationship between market access...
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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
Food and nutrition security is at the forefront of policy making around the globe. This study focuses on a number of … Eurasian countries, namely the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. From under-nutrition … nutrition security. Over the last three decades, their situations have been affected by a number of important income shocks …
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Association between irrigated farming and improved nutrition in farm households in Malawi
Benson, Todd - In: Agrekon : agricultural economics research, policy and … 54 (2015) 3, pp. 62-86
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Causal inference on the impact of nutrition policies using observational data
Mazzocchi, Mario; Capacci, Sara; Biondi, Beatrice - In: Bio-based and applied economics 11 (2022) 1, pp. 3-20
We discuss the state-of-the-art in the application of quasi-experimental methods to estimate the impact of nutrition …
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Exploring the role of individual food security in the assessment of population's food safety
Bobe, Magdalena; Procopie, Roxana; Bucur, Mihaela - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 21 (2019) 51, pp. 347-360
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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Food security perspectives in Sub-Saharan Africa
Popp, József; Oláh, Judit; Kiss, Anna; Lakner, Zoltán - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 21 (2019) 51, pp. 361-376
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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The economics of the naturalist food paradigm
Rausser, Gordon C.; Sexton, Steven E.; Zilberman, David - In: Annual review of resource economics 11 (2019), pp. 217-236
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The potential of diversified agroecological systems to deliver healthy outcomes : making the link between agriculture, food systems & health
Frison, Emile; Clément, Chantal - In: Food policy : economics planning and politics of food … 96 (2020), pp. 1-8
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