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Economics of Nutrition
This chapter brings together two broad sets of wicked challenges facing humanity today: climate change and malnutrition. Policy, institutional, and...
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Nutrition and Climate Policies in the European Union: Friends or Enemies?
The European Union (EU) Green Deal and its Farm to Fork Strategy are intended to promote sustainable food systems to achieve EU climate-neutrality by...
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Climate Change, Food and Nutrition Security, and Human Capital
This chapter looks into how climate change affects food security and nutrition, with implications for human capital formation and labor productivity....
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Mandatory nutrition attributes labeling and consumer demand: a structural approach analysis of the US soft drink market
While soft drinks stand out as a major cause of obesity and overweight worldwide, the USA is the country most concerned with this problem. To reverse...
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Body mass, nutrition, and disease: nineteenth century current net nutrition during economic development
When other measures for material welfare are scarce or unreliable, the use of average stature and body mass index (BMI) values are related to net...
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Dietary Diversity, Nutrition and Food Safety
There is a coexistence of undernutrition, over-nutrition, and micronutrient deficiencies in India. A structural shift in the dietary pattern and...
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Agricultural growth, farmers’ income and nutrition security: linkages and challenges
This paper compares the performance of agriculture in the recent years (2004–05 to 2012–13) with the preceding decade and provides an update on the...
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Nutrition
Not only the individual foods and their combination have changed in many countries, but also the way in which meals are eaten—for example in the...
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Evolution of India’s Policy Response to Hunger, Nutrition, and Food Security Since Independence
At the time of its independence, India did not have enough production of food grains to meet its domestic demand and had to depend on imports. The...
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Traffic light nutrition labeling preferences among children
ObjectiveThis study evaluates the effects of traffic light (TL) nutritional label attributes on children’s food choices. Data were collected from a...
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Impact of COVID-19, Lockdowns and Economic Slowdown on Food and Nutrition Security in India
The two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in India have resulted in widespread food insecurity and hunger in the country as a result of the burden of...
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Degrowth, Diversity and Decentralisation: Building Sustainable Food Systems for Food and Nutrition Security
Modern agricultural and food systems have caused immense damage to human health and the environment. To build sustainable food systems for food and...
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Revisiting Women’s Empowerment as an Agriculture–Nutrition Pathway Using the Framework of Intersectionality
The second goal of Sustainable Development Agenda set in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly seeks to end hunger and all forms of...
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Health systems and nutrition in the time of COVID-19
As infection rates rise, job losses increase and workers leave cities to walk back home, and there is a silent hunger and nutrition crisis striking...
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COVID-19 and women's nutrition security: panel data evidence from rural India
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, India implemented a stringent nationwide lockdown. Although food value chains and allied activities were...
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Global Food Systems, Diets, and Nutrition Linking Science, Economics, and Policy
Ensuring optimal diets and nutrition for the global population is a grand challenge fraught with many contentious issues. To achieve food security...
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Does Crop Insurance Promote Nutrition and Good Health Among Women and Children in the Agrarian Households of India?
Improving maternal and child health is one of the top objectives of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The use of maternal services can help...
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Calorie-based seasonal multicrop land suitability analysis for regional food nutrition security in Bangladesh
Cereal-based food consumption and agricultural practices contribute to food nutritional insecurity, which has become a threatening issue in South...
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Farm and Feed: Heterogeneous Effects of Integrating Farm Innovations on Child Nutrition in Uganda
To achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs) entails increasing farm productivity to ensure food security and reduce hunger. Systematic use of...
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Calorie-Based Seasonal Multicrop Land Suitability Analysis Using GIS and Remote Sensing for Regional Food Nutrition Security in Bangladesh
Cereal-based food consumption and agricultural practices contribute to food nutritional insecurity, which has become a threatening issue in South...