Lisa A Keister,Christina Gibson-Davis,Lisa A Gennetian et al.
Lisa A Keister et al.
Food insecurity is a widespread problem faced by American families, particularly those with children. It is clear that poverty contributes to food insecurity, but extant research focuses almost exclusively on income poverty (IP). We move be...
Increasing Production Diversity and Diet Quality: Evidence from Bangladesh [0.03%]
增加生产多样性和饮食质量:来自孟加拉国的证据
Akhter Ahmed,Fiona Coleman,Julie Ghostlaw et al.
Akhter Ahmed et al.
In the context of rural Bangladesh, we assess whether agriculture training alone, nutrition Behavior Communication Change (BCC) alone, combined agriculture training and nutrition BCC, or agriculture training and nutrition BCC combined with ...
Would A National Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax In The United States Be Well Targeted? [0.03%]
在美国征收全国性的含糖饮料税合理吗?
Pourya Valizadeh,Shu Wen Ng
Pourya Valizadeh
Sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes have been proposed to discourage excessive sugar consumption, but it is unclear how high- vs. low-SSB purchasers respond to such taxes. We first examine heterogeneity in the purchase and financial effect...
Impact of COVID-19 and Nationwide Lockdowns on Vegetable Prices: Evidence from Wholesale Markets in China [0.03%]
新冠肺炎疫情与全国封锁对蔬菜价格的影响——来自中国批发市场的证据
Jianqing Ruan,Qingwen Cai,Songqing Jin
Jianqing Ruan
In this paper, we employ a combination of time regression discontinuity design method (T-RD) and the difference-in-difference method (DID) to identify and quantify the causal effects of the strict lockdown policy on vegetable prices using m...
The Importance of Agriculture in the Economy: Impacts from COVID-19 [0.03%]
新冠疫情下的农业与经济——农业生产对经济的影响研究
Jayson Beckman,Amanda M Countryman
Jayson Beckman
Much of the attention from COVID-19 has been on the impacts on tourism and other service sectors; but there has been a growing interest in some agricultural and food topics, such as the decline in food away from home (FAFH) expenditures. Ou...
Food Consumption and Food Security during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Addis Ababa [0.03%]
埃博拉疫情下的新冠肺炎疫情期间的食品消耗和食品安全问题
Kalle Hirvonen,Alan de Brauw,Gashaw T Abate
Kalle Hirvonen
International humanitarian organizations have expressed substantial concern about the potential for increases in food insecurity resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. We use a unique panel survey of a representative sample households in Add...
Derek Headey,Kalle Hirvonen,John Hoddinott
Derek Headey
Stunting affects 160 million pre-school children globally with adverse life-long consequences. While work within nutritional science suggests that stunting in early childhood is associated with low intakes of animal-sourced foods (ASFs), th...
Derek Headey,Kalle Hirvonen,John Hoddinott et al.
Derek Headey et al.
Child dietary diversity is poor in much of rural Africa and developing Asia, prompting significant efforts to leverage agriculture to improve diets. However, growing recognition that even very poor rural households rely on markets to satisf...
Brian Dillon,Chelsey Dambro
Brian Dillon
During the structural adjustment era of the 1980s and 1990s, governments across sub-Saharan Africa generally withdrew from crop markets to encourage entry by private traders and foster competition. Since that time, the degree of competition...
The household and individual-level productive impacts of cash transfer programs in Sub-Saharan Africa [0.03%]
撒哈拉以南非洲现金转移计划的家庭和个体层面的生产性影响
Silvio Daidone,Benjamin Davis,Sudhanshu Handa et al.
Silvio Daidone et al.
Silvio Daidone is a economist and Benjamin Davis is a Strategic Program Leader, both with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy. Sudhanshu Handa is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel...