Farm family effects of adopting improved and hybrid sorghum seed in the Sudan Savanna of West Africa [0.03%]
西非苏丹萨瓦纳地区改良和杂交高粱种子的采用对农场家庭的影响
Melinda Smale,Amidou Assima,Alpha Kergna et al.
Melinda Smale et al.
Uptake of improved sorghum varieties in the Sudan Savanna of West Africa has been limited, despite the economic importance of the crop and long-term investments in sorghum improvement. One reason why is that attaining substantial yield adva...
Designing a food tax to impact food-related non-communicable diseases: the case of Chile [0.03%]
设计食品税以影响与食物相关的非传染性疾病：智利案例分析
Juan Carlos Caro,Lindsey Smith-Taillie,Shu Wen Ng et al.
Juan Carlos Caro et al.
The global shift towards diets high in sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and energy dense ultra-processed foods is linked to higher prevalence of obesity, diabetes and most other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), causing significant health co...
Soft drink prices, sales, body mass index and diabetes: Evidence from a panel of low-, middle- and high-income countries [0.03%]
软饮价格、销量、体重指数和糖尿病的证据：来自低收入、中等收入以及高收入国家的经验
Yevgeniy Goryakin,Pablo Monsivais,Marc Suhrcke
Yevgeniy Goryakin
We take advantage of four different cross-country datasets containing data on 78 countries for the period 1999-2014, in order to assess the relationship of carbonated soft drinks' sales, as well as their prices, with body mass index (BMI), ...
How can we better capture food away from Home? Lessons from India's linking person-level meal and household-level food data [0.03%]
印度汇人人三餐数据与户水平食物消费数据的经验及启示
John L Fiedler,Suryakant Yadav
John L Fiedler
Despite acknowledged shortcomings, household consumption and expenditure surveys (HCES) are increasingly being used to proxy food consumption because they are relatively more available and affordable than surveys using more precise dietary ...
Megan Sheahan,Christopher B Barrett
Megan Sheahan
The research, development practitioner, and donor community has begun to focus on food loss and waste - often referred to as post-harvest losses (PHL) - in Sub-Saharan Africa. This article reviews the current state of the literature on PHL ...
Non-farm entrepreneurship in rural sub-Saharan Africa: New empirical evidence [0.03%]
撒哈拉以南非洲农村非农创业活动的新实证证据
Paula Nagler,Wim Naudé
Paula Nagler
We report on the prevalence and patterns of non-farm enterprises in six sub-Saharan African countries, and study their performance in terms of labor productivity, survival and exit, using the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study ...
Are African households (not) leaving agriculture? Patterns of households' income sources in rural Sub-Saharan Africa [0.03%]
非洲家庭（不）在离开农业吗？撒哈拉以南非洲农村居民收入来源的特征分析
Benjamin Davis,Stefania Di Giuseppe,Alberto Zezza
Benjamin Davis
This paper uses comparable income aggregates from 41 national household surveys from 22 countries to explore the patterns of income generation among rural households in Sub-Saharan Africa, and to compare household income strategies in Sub-S...
Ellen B McCullough
Ellen B McCullough
Drawing on a new set of nationally representative, internationally comparable household surveys, this paper provides an overview of key features of structural transformation - labor allocation and labor productivity - in four African econom...
Christopher L Gilbert,Luc Christiaensen,Jonathan Kaminski
Christopher L Gilbert
Everyone knows about seasonality. But what exactly do we know? This study systematically measures seasonal price gaps at 193 markets for 13 food commodities in seven African countries. It shows that the commonly used dummy variable or movin...
Agricultural commercialization and nutrition revisited: Empirical evidence from three African countries [0.03%]
重新审视农业商业化与营养问题：来自非洲三个国家的经验证据
Calogero Carletto,Paul Corral,Anita Guelfi
Calogero Carletto
The transition from subsistence to commercial agriculture is key for economic growth. But what are the consequences for nutritional outcomes? The evidence to date has been scant and inconclusive. This study contributes to the debate by revi...