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2011 Global food policy report:

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); … - 2012

should be done in the future? In 2011, agriculture moved to the forefront of the international development agenda. In … addition to producing adequate food, agriculture's crucial role in improving nutrition and health, sustainably making use of …

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Reshaping agriculture for nutrition and health: An IFPRI 2020 book

Fan, Shenggen; Pandya-Lorch, Rajul - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

The fundamental purpose of agriculture is not just to produce food and raw materials, but also to grow healthy, well … require closer collaboration across the sectors of agriculture, nutrition, and health, which have long operated in separate … spheres with little recognition of how their actions affect each other. It is time for agriculture, nutrition, and health to …

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America's Eating Habits: Changes and Consequences

Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1999

agriculture. …

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Food Subsidies and Inflation in Developing Countries: A Bridge Between Structuralism and Monetarism

Parkin, Vincent; Srinivasan, T G; Vines, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1989

This paper examines the efficacy of food consumption subsidies as anti-inflation policy in developing countries characterized by rigidities of food supply. First a standard structuralist model is utilized to show that though a policy of food consumption subsidies brings down inflation in the...

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People have to eat

Davies, Phil - In: Fedgazette (2004) Mar, pp. 15-19

Food processing in the district is doing surprisingly well. But its future-and that of rural areas that attract food plants-depends on economic forces that run much deeper than the recent downturn

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Agriculture, food, and health perspectives on a long relationship: understanding the links between agriculture and health

Lang, Tim - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

"Agriculture produces food fundamental for human health. It therefore seems obvious that agriculture, food, and health … are related! Agriculture affects whether people have enough food to eat, whether it is of sufficient nutritional value … different ways of looking at the relationships between agriculture, food, and health. Agricultural connections to food and …

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