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understanding. Reviewing recent evidence from Kenya, we show that buying food in supermarkets instead of traditional outlets … contributes to overnutrition among adults, while reducing undernutrition among children. For farm households, supplying …
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in Sub-Saharan Africa. Food insecurity remains a major issue among African smallholders. Mobile phones could potentially … scarce. In this study we analyze whether mobile phones improve dietary quality of pastoralists in Northern Kenya. We use six …
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Undernutrition and low dietary quality remain widespread problems especially among smallholder farmers in sub …-Saharan Africa. Hence, the question as to how smallholder systems can be made more nutrition-sensitive is of particular relevance for … hypothesis is confirmed with data from Kenya, using different indicators of production diversity and dietary diversity scores at …
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Agricultural innovations are seen as a key avenue to improve nutrition and health in smallholder farm households. But details of these agriculture-nutrition-health linkages are not yet well understood. While there is a broad literature on the adoption of agricultural technologies, most studies...
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In the quest to reduce global under- and malnutrition, which is particularly high among smallholder farmers … smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa rely on hand tools for farming, which implies heavy physical work and, thus, high energy … in order to reduce the prevalence of both under- and malnutrition among smallholder farmers, while safeguarding against …
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-communicable diseases, including diabetes, heart diseases and certain cancers. Given the still prevailing rates of under-nutrition, affected … countries face a double burden of malnutrition, and individuals that have overcome food poverty risk often remain health … using cross-sectional household survey data collected in Kenya in 2012. In order to establish causality, our sample was …
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Agricultural innovations are seen as a key avenue to improve nutrition and health in smallholder farm households. But details of these agriculture-nutrition-health linkages are not yet well understood. While there is a broad literature on the adoption of agricultural technologies, most studies...
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CRIAR is to increase smallholders' agricultural income and food security through productivity improvements triggered by …
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understanding. Reviewing recent evidence from Kenya, we show that buying food in supermarkets instead of traditional outlets … contributes to overnutrition among adults, while reducing undernutrition among children. For farm households, supplying …
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