Women improving nutrition through self-help groups in India: Does nutrition information help? [0.03%]
营养信息能帮助印度妇女通过自助小组改善营养状况吗?
Neha Kumar,Kalyani Raghunathan,Agnes Quisumbing et al.
Neha Kumar et al.
Women's self-help groups (SHGs) are an important platform for reaching poor women in India. Despite SHGs' women-focused programming, evidence of the impact of SHG-based interventions on nutrition outcomes is limited, and most evaluations of...
Meat, money and messaging: How the environmental and health harms of red and processed meat consumption are framed by the meat industry [0.03%]
肉、金钱与信息:肉类产业如何构建红肉及加工肉制品消费的环境和健康危害问题
Kathryn Clare,Nason Maani,James Milner
Kathryn Clare
Calls to cut consumption of red and processed meat, in order to protect both human and planetary health, are drawing increased attention from policy actors. This poses a potential threat to meat industry profits. It is well evidenced that p...
Estimating the cost and affordability of healthy diets: How much do methods matter? [0.03%]
健康饮食的成本和可承受能力评估:方法的选择有多重要?
Derek Headey,Kalle Hirvonen,Harold Alderman
Derek Headey
Recently developed cost and affordability of healthy diet (CoAHD) metrics have quickly become mainstream food security indicators. However, published research on the sensitivity of estimation methods is limited. This paper focuses on two im...
Food prices and the wages of the poor: A cost-effective addition to high-frequency food security monitoring [0.03%]
食品价格与贫困人群的工资:高频食品安全监测的有效补充措施
Derek Headey,Fantu Bachewe,Quinn Marshall et al.
Derek Headey et al.
The affordability of nutritious food for "all people, at all times" is a critically important dimension of food security. Yet surprisingly, timely high-frequency indicators of food affordability are rarely collected in any systematic fashio...
The glass of milk half-empty? Dairy development and nutrition in low and middle income countries [0.03%]
半空的牛奶杯?中低收入国家乳品发展与营养问题
Derek D Headey,Harold Alderman,John Hoddinott et al.
Derek D Headey et al.
Dairy products have an exceptionally rich nutrient profile and have long been promoted in high income countries to redress child malnutrition. But given all this potential, and the high burden of undernutrition in low- and middle-income cou...
Gender, rainfall endowment, and farmers' heterogeneity in wheat trait preferences in Ethiopia [0.03%]
性别,降雨量和农民对小麦特征偏好的异质性分析——基于埃塞俄比亚的调查数据
Hom N Gartaula,Gebrelibanos Gebremariam,Moti Jaleta
Hom N Gartaula
Wheat is a vital cereal crop for smallholders in Ethiopia. Despite over fifty years of research on wheat varietal development, consideration of gendered trait preferences in developing target product profiles for wheat breeding is limited. ...
Household dairy production, dairy intake, and anthropometric outcomes in rural Bangladesh [0.03%]
农村孟加拉国的家庭乳制品生产、乳品摄入量和人体测量结果
M Mehrab Bakhtiar,John Hoddinott
M Mehrab Bakhtiar
We assess whether ownership of dairy cows is associated with a greater likelihood of consuming dairy products and with child anthropometric status in rural Bangladesh. Consistent with the assumption of imperfectly functioning markets for da...
Kate Ambler,Alan de Brauw,Sylvan Herskowitz et al.
Kate Ambler et al.
Recent literature suggests that agricultural value chains are changing rapidly and places an increasing focus on the importance of actors and activities taking place in the "midstream" of these value chains, after production and prior to fi...
Sustainable maize intensification through site-specific nutrient management advice: Experimental evidence from Nigeria [0.03%]
通过特定地点的养分管理建议实现可持续的玉米增产:来自尼日利亚的实验证据
Miet Maertens,Oyakhilomen Oyinbo,Tahirou Abdoulaye et al.
Miet Maertens et al.
There is growing evidence on the impacts of site-specific nutrient management (SSNM) from Asia. The evidence for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where SSNM developments are more recent and where conditions concerning soil fertility and fertilizer...
Social incentives as nudges for agricultural knowledge diffusion and willingness to pay for certified seeds: Experimental evidence from Uganda [0.03%]
社会激励促进农业知识扩散及支付意愿的实验证据——以乌干达为例
Julius Okello,Kelvin Mashisia Shikuku,Carl Johan Lagerkvist et al.
Julius Okello et al.
A transition from low-input subsistence farming in Sub-Saharan Africa will require the use of yield-increasing agricultural technologies. However, in developing countries, most farmers continue to rely heavily on pest-infested and disease-i...