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in Sub-Saharan Africa. Food insecurity remains a major issue among African smallholders. Mobile phones could potentially … facilitate access to food markets and thus improve food security and nutrition, but research on such types of effects remains …
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During the 2000s, recurrent food price shocks due to volatility in international markets and extreme weather events affected consumption and nutritional patterns of Mexican urban households. This research quantifies the impacts of food price shocks on the purchase of nutrients and on the weight...
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family has a sufficient amount of food, and deteriorated child nutrition. There is also a differential effect between … vulnerable groups that are most likely to benefit from programs designed to provide sufficient nutrition to the population. …
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During the 2000s, recurrent food price shocks due to volatility in international markets and extreme weather events affected consumption and nutritional patterns of Mexican urban households. This research quantifies the impacts of food price shocks on the purchase of nutrients and on the weight...
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Many low income countries are experiencing a “nutrition transition” towards the consumption of more energy … consequences of the nutrition transition have been expanding waistlines and surging rates of nutrition-related non …-communicable diseases, including diabetes, heart diseases and certain cancers. Given the still prevailing rates of under-nutrition, affected …
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This paper studies the nutritional impact and the adjustment in consumption as a result of the 2005-2010 rice price increase in rural Bangladesh. We compare the net rice buyers, who suffer from a negative income effect, with the self sufficient households. Our findings indicate that rural...
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changes to wealth is known as the nutrition transition and presents well-identified features that help to predict consumption … changes in poor countries. This study proposes to represent the nutrition transition with a nonhomothetic, flexible … Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. It captures the main features of the nutrition transition: rise in demand for …
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