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Essays on Food Security and the Nutrition Transition in Developing Countries
Rischke, Ramona - 2014
countries is the „nutrition transition“, i.e. the trend towards the consumption of more energy-dense, highly processed foods and … more sedentary lifestyles. Two essays of this Ph.D. thesis analyse drivers and consequences of the nutrition transition in … pattern’ of the so-called supermarket revolution. Supermarket purchases are found to contribute to the nutrition transition by …
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A JAPÁN GAZDASÁG NÉHÁNY JELLEGZETESSÉGE A XXI. SZÁZAD FORDULÓJÁN
Tompe, Ferenc - 2005
Japán és a Távol-Kelet évtizedeken keresztül a világ egyéb térségeinek csodá-latát vívta ki elsősorban az átlagot meghaladó, gyors gazdasági növekedésével. Az 1990-es években a korábbi „keleti motor”-ként tekintett Japán gazdasága kü-lönleges helyzetbe került: a...
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Demographic characteristics of ethical consumers
Schnitz, Casey Lee - 2008
Master of Science
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Biotechnology, Biosafety and Impact Assessment: Field Trials of Transgenic Crops in Developing Countries
Biostrategy Associates
The deliberate release of transgenic crops is often taken to be an indicator of agricultural biotechnology development. However, less than 10% of the field trials world wide have been carried out in Developing Countries (DCs) and it seems that more than 80% of these were carried out by...
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Nutrition, economic development and civil wars in Sub-Saharan Africa (1950-2000)
Moradi, Alexander - 2005
. There are persuasive arguments as well as qualitative evidence, that agriculture and nutrition should be considered a cause … results confirm, that nutrition and agriculture can explain civil wars in SSA. …A life free of hunger is an essential part of human well-being. For measuring nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), we …
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Changing Diets in China's Cities: Empirical Fact or Urban Legend?
Fuller, Frank H.; Dong, Fengxia - 2006
Replaced with revised version of paper 09/12/07.
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Brand Inertia in U.S. Household Cheese Consumption.
Arnade, Carlos; Gopinath, Munisamy; Pick, Daniel - 2008
To analyze U.S. consumers' brand choices for cheese purchases, we derive a set of discrete-choice models from dynamic utility maximization. ACNielsen Homescan Survey data on U.S. households is used to estimate a dynamic probit model for each of the top brands for cheddar, shredded, and sliced...
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Why Is the Obesity Rate So Low in Japan and High in the U.S.? Some Possible Economic Explanations
Senauer, Benjamin; Gemma, Masahiko - 2006
More than one billion adults are overweight worldwide, and more than 300 million of them clinically obese, raising the risk of many serious diseases. Only 3.6 percent of Japanese have a body mass index (BMI) over 30, which is the international standard for obesity, whereas 32.0 percent of...
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