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What do we really know? : metrics for food insecurity and undernutrition
Haen, Hartwig de; Klasen, Stephan; Qaim, Matin - 2011
undernutrition: (i) the FAO indicator of undernourishment, (ii) household food consumption surveys, and (iii) childhood … anthropometrics. There is a striking and worrying degree of inconsistency when one compares available estimates, which is due to … undernutrition is unknown. We discuss strengths and weaknesses of each approach and make concrete suggestions for improvement, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010349173
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What do we really know? Metrics for food insecurity and undernutrition
de Haen, Hartwig; Klasen, Stephan; Qaim, Matin - 2011
undernutrition: (i) the FAO indicator of undernourishment, (ii) household food consumption surveys, and (iii) childhood … anthropometrics. There is a striking and worrying degree of inconsistency when one compares available estimates, which is due to … undernutrition is unknown. We discuss strengths and weaknesses of each approach and make concrete suggestions for improvement, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329960
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What do we really know? Metrics for food insecurity and undernutrition
de Haen, Hartwig; Klasen, Stephan; Qaim, Matin - In: Food Policy 36 (2011) 6, pp. 760-769
undernutrition: (i) the FAO indicator of undernourishment, (ii) household food consumption surveys, and (iii) childhood … anthropometrics. There is a striking and worrying degree of inconsistency when one compares available estimates, which is due to … undernutrition is unknown. We discuss strengths and weaknesses of each approach and make concrete suggestions for improvement, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010577381
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Using the household hunger scale to improve analysis and classification of severe food insecurity in famine-risk conditions : evidence from three countries
Maxwell, Daniel; Adan, Guhad; Hailey, Peter; Day, Matthew; … - In: Food policy : economics planning and politics of food … 118 (2023), pp. 1-12
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Scarring and selection in the Great Irish Famine
Blum, Matthias; Colvin, Christopher L.; McLaughlin, Eoin - 2017
What impact do famines have on survivors? We use individual-level data on a population exposed to severe famine conditions during infancy to document two opposing effects. The first: exposure to insufficient food and a worsened disease environment is associated with poor health into adulthood -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011725195
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Chapter 40 Food security and food assistance programs
Barrett, Christopher B. - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 2, part B, …, (pp. 2103-2190). 2002
Widespread hunger and malnutrition persist today despite considerable growth in per capita food availability. This has …
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Agriculture, nutrition, and the Green Revolution in Bangladesh
Headey, Derek D.; Hoddinott, John - 2015
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Poverty, undernutrition and vulnerability in rural India : role of rural public works and food for work programmes
Imai, Katsushi S. - In: International review of applied economics 25 (2011) 6, pp. 669-691
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Low malnutrition but high mortality : explaining the puzzle of the Lake Victoria region
Gräb, Johannes; Priebe, Jan - 2010
Comparing DHS data from 235 regions in 29 Sub-Saharan Africa countries, we find that the combination of low levels of malnutrition together with dramatically high rates of mortality, encountered in Kenya's Lake Victoria territory, is unique for Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper explores the causes...
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Public-private partnerships and the reduction of undernutrition in developing countries
Hoddinott, John; Gillespie, Stuart; Yosef, Sivan - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490120