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can raise public awareness of the problem, highlight policymakers' duty to ensure the nutrition of their citizens, and … link proper nutrition to general national development. This report should serve as a resource for advocates, researchers …
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, research on the implications for people's diets and nutrition is still scant. Here, we analyze the effects of supermarkets on … child diets and nutrition in China. We use nationally representative panel data that include information on households … child dietary quality and nutrition in China. …
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Ensuring a sufficient level of food for the population in both quantitative and qualitative terms is a priority for most countries as well as for governmental and non-governmental bodies – be they national, regional or international. The United Nations (UN) stresses the fact that one of the...
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The state of global food security has been considerably improved in the last decades; however, these achievements are attributable to the “green revolutions” in Latin-America and Asia. The food shortage has remained persistent in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the proliferation of...
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children's nutrition using the case of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mozambique. In response to the economic downturn, households … child nutrition before and after the pandemic. The results show that there has been a significant reduction in household …
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Food and nutrition security is at the forefront of policy making around the globe. This study focuses on a number of … Eurasian countries, namely the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. From under-nutrition … nutrition security. Over the last three decades, their situations have been affected by a number of important income shocks …
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on food and nutrition security are not yet understood. Using data from smallholder cotton farmers in Benin, we … empirically investigate how adopting organic farming affects their food and nutrition security. Our results indicate that adopting … diets. Evaluating pathways, we find that the decreased food and nutrition security is likely caused by lower household …
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Policies and programs to improve global nutrition increasingly aim to improve diet quality through systemic change in …) to guide economic policy, but use of these data to improve food markets and nutrition has been limited. This study … that would be needed to improve nutrition and health. We conclude that national governments and international agencies …
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Rapid increases in food supplies have reduced global hunger, while rising burdens of diet-related disease have made poor diet quality the leading cause of death and disability around the world. Today’s 'double burden' of undernourishment in utero and early childhood then undesired weight gain...
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Many developing countries use food price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However …
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