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In this paper we examine the relative importance of rural versus urban areas in terms of monetary poverty and seven other related living standards indicators. We present the levels of urban-rural differences for several African countries for which we have data and find that living standards in...
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food and nutrition security. Innovations for improved market functioning and avoidance of price shocks require information … reduction. More attention to innovative social protection and direct nutrition intervention programs is needed, including …
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instant noodles from the market in India in 2015. We show that this recall had a negative impact on the purchases of Maggi …
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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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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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-Saharan Africa. Hence, the question as to how smallholder systems can be made more nutrition-sensitive is of particular relevance for … research and policy. Recent studies analysed whether increasing farm production diversity may help to improve nutrition and … tests the hypothesis that the effect of farm diversity on nutrition is small because production diversity is positively …
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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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This study used a nationally representative survey from the 2012-2013 World Bank's General Household Survey for Nigeria, to examine the relationship between empowerment, measured using a modification of the Alkire et al. (2013) empowerment index, and household dietary diversity, based on the FAO...
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