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as well as through livestock. As this pathway is subsumed in agriculture and nutrition studies focusing on anthropometric …Our analysis illustrates one pathway between agriculture and nutrition through production of nutrients by crop and size … outcomes, and hardly any light is thrown on the contribution of smallholders, it is emphasised that they play an important role …
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consumption of fruits, vegetables, oils and livestock products. Using household data, a food diversity index (FDI) is constructed … corroborated. While there is a reduction in calorie intake, there are increases in protein and fat intakes. A case is made for …
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Following the death of Mao in 1976, abandonment of collective farming lifted millions from poverty and heralded sweeping pro-market policies. How did China's excess in male births respond to rural land reform? In newly-available data from over 1,000 counties, a second child following a daughter...
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Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
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Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276950
Commercialization of smallholder agriculture is widely seen as an essential pathway towards rural economic growth … and dietary quality, with a special focus on calorie and micronutrient consumption. We also examine transmission channels …. Commercialization significantly improves food security and dietary quality in terms of calorie, zinc, and iron consumption. For vitamin …
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Agricultural development status impact individual nutrition through food, health and care practices. Many recent studies are focused on the positive side of the impact pathways. However, in some cases, those interventions may have negative outcomes on nutrition. We explore those potential...
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Agricultural development status impact individual nutrition through food, health and care practices. Many recent studies are focused on the positive side of the impact pathways. However, in some cases, those interventions may have negative outcomes on nutrition. We explore those potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010743536
-Niño-induced large-scale drought on smallholder farmers’ livestock holding and milk production using nationally representative data … collected before and after the drought. We show that drought reduced milk production and livestock holding by 25.8% and 8 ….4%, respectively. Heterogenous impact analysis suggests that asset-rich households sold livestock and financed feed purchases, which …
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In light of the surge in large-scale farms in developing countries, concerns have been raised that smallholders may be … large-scale farms and smallholders. First, we analyse the geographical contexts of wards that host large-scale farms and …-in-differences approach to estimate the impacts of large-scale farms on smallholders' area cultivated, maize yields, and access to fertiliser …
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