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Social network effects on mobile money adoption in Uganda
Can integrated agriculture-nutrition programmes change gender norms on land and asset ownership?
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Does livestock ownership affect animal source foods consumption and child nutritional status?
In many developing countries consumption of animal source foods (ASF) among the poor is still at a level where increasing its share in total caloric intake may have many positive nutritional benefits.
Cows, missing milk markets, and nutrition in rural Ethiopia
In rural economies encumbered by significant market imperfections, farming decisions may partly be motivated by nutritional considerations, in addition to income and risk factors.
Women’s empowerment mitigates the negative effects of low production diversity on maternal and child nutrition in Nepal
We use household survey data from Nepal to investigate relationships between women’s empowerment in agriculture and production diversity on maternal and child dietary diversity and anthropometric outcomes.
Agricultural interventions are thought to have the potential to improve nutrition, but little rigorous evidence is available about programmes that link the two.
Farm-level pathways to improved nutritional status
Global, national and local policies and programmes for agricultural development are recurrently justified based on their alleged role in improving food and nutrition security.
If they grow it, will they eat and grow?
In this article we address a gap in our understanding of how household agricultural production diversity affects the diets and nutrition of young children living in rural farming communities in sub-Saharan Africa.
Agricultural diversity and child stunting in Nepal
This article investigates empirical connections between agriculture and child nutrition in Nepal.
In this article, we develop an empirical model of an agro-pastoral system subject to high climatic risk in order to test the impact of rainfall variability on livestock densities, land allocation patterns and herd mobility observed at the communit
Impacts of in-kind transfers on household food consumption: evidence from targeted food programmes in Bangladesh
This article examines the impact of wheat transfers and cash incomes on wheat consumption and wheat markets.