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Policies for encouraging healthier food choices
Giner, Céline; Brooks, Jonathan - 2019
obesity epidemics? This report briefly examines the evidence base on unhealthy diets, including the associated burden on …
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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
-nutrition to various forms of malnutrition and obesity, these countries face different challenges when it comes to food and …
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Food (di)lemmas : disentangling the Italian Local Food Policy narratives
Mazzocchi, Giampiero; Giarè, Francesca; Sardone, Roberta; … - In: Italian review of agricultural economics 78 (2023) 3, pp. 19-34
Recently, food-related policy initiatives have proliferated, such as food strategies, food plans, food councils, food districts and food communities, just to name the more relevant ones. Far from being systematically defined and logically systematized, these concepts often overlap or are used as...
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Taxing Sweets : Sweetener Input Tax or Final Consumption Tax?
Miao, Zhen; Beghin, John; Jensen, Helen H. - 2010
Policymakers are considering various policies to reduce obesity and its associated costs, including consumption taxes …
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Do Food Stamps Contribute to Obesity in Low-Income Women? Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979
Fan, Maoyong - 2015
High prevalence of obesity in female Food Stamp Program (FSP) participants has led to the question of whether or not … estimates the effects of food stamp benefits on obesity, overweight and body mass index (BMI) of low-income women. Contrary to … previous results, we find little evidence that the FSP causes obesity, overweight or higher BMI. Our analysis differs from …
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The Vanishing Weight Gap : Trends in Obesity among Adult Food Stamp Participants (US) (1976-2002)
Ver Ploeg, Michele L.; Mancino, Lisa - 2010
High rates of obesity among low-income populations have led some to question whether USDA's food assistance programs …
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Drivers of farm performance : empirical country case studies
Sauer, Johannes; Moreddu, Catherine - 2020
This report contains an empirical analysis of the productivity and sustainability performance of different types of farms in thirteen countries. Farm productivity performance is measured through estimates of average productivity levels and through annual rates of technical change. Evidence on...
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Measuring Agricultural Policy Bias: General Equilibrium Analysis of Fifteen Developing Countries
Jensen, Henning Tarp; Sherman, Robinson; Tarp, Finn - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The measurement issue is the key issue in the literature on trade policy-induced agricultural price incentive bias. This paper introduces a general equilibrium effective rate of protection (GE-ERP) measure, which extends and generalizes earlier partial equilibrium nominal protection measures....
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Technological capability building in MNE-Related social businesses of less developed countries : the experience of Grameen-Danone foods in Bangladesh
Peerally J.A.; Figueiredo P.N. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013
Although there has been considerable research on firm-level technological capability building in the context of developing economies, there is a scarcity of studies which examine this issue in multinational enterprises socially motivated businesses located in less developed economies.This paper...
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FOOD PARADOX – A MICROECONOMIC CONCEPT
COMANESCU, ADINA CRISTINA; MARINESCU, CRISTIAN - In: Journal of Academic Research in Economics 3 (2011) 3 (November), pp. 425-433
On its way of multi millennial evolution agriculture has undergone several stages all off them being organically implied in the natural ecosystem. Following the impressive development of the pesticide and fertilizer industries and the excessive utilization of chemical substances in cattle...
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