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Existing reviews on agriculture and nutrition consider limited evidence and focus on impact size, rather than impact … one of the agriculture-nutrition pathways. Agricultural development plays a role in improving nutrition. However … agriculture — especially by women — competes with time needed for resting, childcare, and food preparation and can have unintended …
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, with a specific emphasis on agriculture and nutrition policies. Focusing on five key elements of the policy cycle — agenda … domains related to food security, including agriculture, education, healthcare, nutrition, and social protection …
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Although women's empowerment and gender equality are associated with better maternal and child nutrition outcomes …'s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), a recent internationally-validated measure based on interviews of women and men within … to household-, women-, and child-level dietary and nutrition outcomes. We examine the relationship between women …
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the importance of identifying different pathways from agriculture to nutrition for better nutritional outcomes. Using a … food security indicators along the agriculture-nutrition pathways. Through a broadened and comprehensive approach under one …Food security and nutrition policy interventions generally rely on selective measures. Yet recent literature emphasizes …
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that can also achieve nutritional objectives. Agriculture has direct links to nutrition in that it provides a source of … nutrition outcomes, policymakers are increasingly grappling with how to design and implement agricultural policies and programs … through which agricultural development could improve health and nutrition outcomes is by considering gender roles and gender …
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-related training courses. Women were significantly less likely to receive agriculture and nutrition-related information and training … Agricultural Development Support Project’s impacts on gender equality and nutrition. Baseline data show large gender gaps, in which …-related information and half received health-related information. Nine to 14 percent of respondents attended agriculture- or health …
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There are concerns that increasing women’s engagement in agriculture could have a negative effect on nutrition because … agriculture adversely affects maternal and child nutrition, and whether the lack of women’s time in reproductive work leads to … it limits the time available for nutrition-improving reproductive work. However, very few empirical studies have been …
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burden of malnutrition and the achievement of zero hunger. To accelerate nutrition-sensitive food environments that deliver …
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particular focus on agriculture and the rural nonfarm economy. It provides insights into the drivers of youth unemployment and …
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clearer picture of Chinese activities in agriculture is important as a foundation for Africans and their development partners … to more fruitfully engage with an increasingly important actor. Chinese engagement in agriculture and rural development …
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