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Food systems in developing countries are transforming, involving a rapid expansion of supermarkets. This supermarket revolution may affect dietary patterns and nutrition, but empirical evidence is scarce. The few existing studies have analyzed implications for food consumers and producers...
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Reducing child malnutrition is one of the most important development goals. This study adopts a quantile regression … intervention to improve mother’s education, especially higher than primary school, is effective to reduce the child’s malnutrition …’s nutritional status imply that malnutrition is handed down from one generation to another, which could keep children trapped in the …
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countries face a double burden of malnutrition, and individuals that have overcome food poverty risk often remain health …
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Resultados das Investigações do Departamento de Análise de Políticas MADER-Direcção de Economía
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Zambia’s Feed the Future (FtF) strategy by providing a broad empirical analysis of the current conditions and historical … trends shaping Zambia’s agricultural and food sector; and 2. To serve as a technical reference for organizations tasked with …
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For several reasons, fertilizer subsidies are again popular policy tools. First, there is broad agreement that fertilizer is a critical yet still-underused input for improving productivity and food security in Africa. Second, politicians have felt greater urgency to increase domestic food...
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the poor on forest resources. Studies of the role of forest products in household welfare in Zambia have found that such … role of non-timber forest products NTFPs) in rural household welfare in Zambia, with two main objectives. First, using …
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Rural poverty rates in Zambia have remained very high, at 80%, over the past decade and a half, whilst urban poverty … dynamics that have improved the welfare of small-scale farm households in Zambia, combined with an agenda for disseminating … Zambia households. …
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In 2011, Zambia recorded its second consecutive record-breaking maize harvest, and aggregate maize production levels in … corresponds with the scaling up of the Government of the Republic of Zambia's (GRZ) two flagship agricultural sector programmes … been no major reduction in rural poverty rates in Zambia since 2004. …
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The past two years are a tribute to Zambian farmers; they have responded admirably to government efforts to promote maize production. But ironically, rural poverty remains stubbornly high despite the fact that the government has spent over 2% of the nation’s gross domestic product in...
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