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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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Supply chain quality and its managerial challenges – Insights from Ukrainian agri-food business
Hanf, Jon H.; Gagalyuk, Taras - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 14 (2009) 4, pp. 332-356
This article analyses the effect of the East-European business environment on quality management as a means of operationalising chain management strategies. The particular focus on the Ukrainian agri-food business in combination with fifteen in-depth expert interviews reveals the infancy of...
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Explaining Success in Reducing Under-Nourishment Numbers in Ghana
Aggrey-Fynn, Emmanuel; Banini, Godsway; Croppenstedt, Andre - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2003
The FAO Food Security measure shows that the number of under-nourished Ghanaians has fallen from 64 to 12 percent between 1979-1981 and 1998-2000. Since income distribution is assumed to have remained constant the change is due entirely to increased food availability. The paper shows that most...
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The impact of food price shocks on weight loss : evidence from the adult population of Tanzania
García-Germán, Sol; Romeo, Alessandro; Magrini, Emiliano - 2016
be taken into consideration when designing policy and programmes aiming at addressing malnutrition in low income …
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The implications of agricultural trade and market developments for food security
Tallard, Grégoire; Liapis, Peter S.; Pilgrim, Graham - 2016
Reducing hunger and undernourishment is a global priority and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have the ambitious target of eradicating hunger entirely by 2030. Using the OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook to 2024, this paper provides projections on the availability of calories at the...
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Women's status and children's food security in Nepal
Nyyssölä, Milla - 2007
This paper focuses on gender aspects upon children’s food security. Using data from the 1995/1996 Nepal Living … Standards Survey, this study attempts to find evidence to whether children are heavier for their age, taller for their age or …’s intra-family status and children’s food security was analyzed with a linear model, where on the left hand side are children …
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Impacts of supermarkets on child nutrition in China
Liu, Zhen; Kornher, Lukas; Qaim, Matin - 2023
supermarkets leads to higher child dietary diversity and nutrient intakes, especially among children in rural areas and from low …
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Market food environments and child nutrition
Huelsen, Vivien; Khonje, Makaiko Gonapanyanja; Qaim, Matin - 2024
Child malnutrition and low-quality diets remain widespread public health problems in sub-Saharan Africa. Providing …
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Gendered analysis of food security gaps in rural Nepal
Aryal, Jeetendra Prakash; Rahut, Dil Bahadur; Gartaula, … - 2021
Gender studies on food security have often focused on the differences between male-headed households (MHHs) and female-headed households (FHHs). Hence, they have mostly ignored the possibility of food security gaps between the different types of FHHs, treating them as homogeneous. Therefore,...
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