Search Results - subject_exact:"Nutrition"

What you see is not what you get : food advertising amidst the global overweight and obesity pandemic

Ocokoljic, Marija - 2025

The tandem issue of obesity and overweight is a serious global issue that has attained pandemic scale. Media, particularly advertising, plays an active role in shaping perceptions and behavioural patterns, influencing both how and what people eat. This paper analyses food advertising in Serbia...

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Fostering Agri-Food System Transformation for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth : Challenges and Policy Imperatives

Rao, Srinivasa P. - 2026

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Farm production, marketing, and children's nutritional outcomes in rural Zambia

Mulungu, Kelvin; Manning, Dale; Kumwenda, Chiza; … - 2025

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Cash transfers, diet quality, and child growth among refugee children : evidence from Turkey's ESSN program

Demirci, Murat; Foster, Andrew D.; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2026

This study examines the impact of the world's largest humanitarian unconditional cash transfer program targeting refugees - the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) program - on child nutrition and growth outcomes. Using the 2018 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey, which includes a...

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Temporary migration decisions and effects on household income and diets in rural Bangladesh

Rana, Md. Sohel; Faye, Amy; Qaim, Matin - 2025

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Temporary migration decisions and effects on household income and diets in rural Bangladesh

Rana, Md. Sohel; Faye, Amy; Qaim, Matin - 2024

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Economic, cultural and taste-based constraints to the scaling of climate-resilient biofortified maize among diverse smallholder populations in Guatemala

Macours, Karen; Mallia, Paola; Rudder, Jessica - 2025

To address the combined challenges of hidden hunger and climate vulnerability, crop breeding efforts over the last decades have focused on releasing crop varieties with resilient traits and higher nutrient content. Ensuring that those newly released varieties reach the types of farmers most...

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Tracking nutrition investments : proposed nutrition budget tagging framework and typology for the national government agencies in the Philippines

Casas, Lyle; Bagas, Joy; Ulep, Valerie Gilbert - 2025

This report proposes a framework in tagging nutrition expenditures of national government agencies. The framework was developed through exhaustive literature review and validation sessions with government agencies. It comprised of five levels (5) of classification elements namely: major...

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Harnessing the direct and indirect effects of agriculture on health and nutrition to accelerate human capital development in Kenya : evidence from household surveys

Mwabu, Germano M.; Wambugu, Anthony - 2025

This paper estimates the direct and indirect effects of agriculture on health and nutrition using nationally representative survey data collected by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics in 1994, 1997, 2005 and 2015. The models estimated serve as examples of general frameworks that can be used...

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Cycles of malnutrition : intergenerational health transmission in India

Gautam, Santosh; Halliday, Timothy; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2025

We provide the first estimates of broad-based health transmission between parents and their young children in India. The correlations between maternal health and child health outcomes - such as anemia, stunting, and body mass index - are approximately 0.20. When aggregating these health measures...

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The epidemiological transition in Macondo : 1918-1998

Meisel Roca, Adolfo; Granger, Ángela - 2025

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Global evidence on gender gaps and child poverty in consumption

Aminjonov, Ulugbek; Bargain, Olivier; Colacce, Maira - 2025

Since intra-household resource distribution is unobserved, it is difficult to compare how women and children fare across countries. To address this, we analyze 45 household expenditure surveys from predominantly low- and middle-income countries, i.e. an international sample of around 2.4 million...

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Exploring how mobile money adoption affects nutrition and household food security

Ajefu, Joseph Boniface; Uchenna, Efobi; Adeoye, Lydia; … - 2024

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Understanding the policy landscape for climate action in Kenya : potential for integration of gender, nutrition, and improved impact monitoring

Magalhaes, Marilia; Bryan, Elizabeth; Ringler, Claudia; … - 2025

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Food security and multicommodity agricultural international trade : quantifying optimal consumer subsidies for nutritional needs

Nagurney, Anna - 2024

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Dietary and Nutrition Transitions in Indigenous Communities : The Role of Income and Market Access in Nagaland, India

Boss, Ruchira; Hoddinott, John; Colen, Liesbeth - 2025

Despite extensive evidence linking urbanization, market access, and rising incomes to dietary transitions and nutritional outcomes, both globally and within India, Indigenous communities, particularly in the North East Region (NER) of India, have received little attention in this context. This...

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Land ownership and nutrition in Nepal

Tiwari, Manda - 2024

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Exposure to climate shocks, poverty and household well-being

Becchetti, Leonardo; Mancini, Sara; Savastano, Sara - 2024

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Droughts in Africa : adult malnutrition and occupational change during recurring and first-time droughts

Fingado, Nora; Poelhekke, Steven - 2025 - Original version: April 2023, this version: November 2025

How costly are droughts to adults' nutrition in Africa? Do people adapt to recurring droughts? We measure severe droughts using detailed satellite-based index of greening observed bi-monthly on a relatively high-resolution 0.083 degree grid between 1982 and 2015, that captures persistent and...

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Targeting of food aid programs : evidence from Egypt

Mahmoud, Mai; Kurdi, Sikandra - 2025

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The planetary diet : an illusory recipe

Hellstrand, Stefan; Gärdebo, Johan - 2026

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Parental health shocks, and upward mobility of children's income in China

Li, Xiang; Matthews, Kent; Qi, Shouwei - 2026

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Senegal at a crossroads : prioritizing large-scale food fortification under financial uncertainty

Resnick, Danielle; Diatta, Ampa Dogui - 2025

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Nurturing nutrition : evidence from a randomized trial of structured electronic food vouchers in the Philippines

Raitzer, David A.; Abdel Sater, Rita; Batmunkh, Odbayar; … - 2025

We present the findings of a pilot that randomized provision of structured electronic food vouchers to poor households in the Philippines, which was designed to inform a new national food voucher program. The study utilized a matched pair cluster-randomized controlled trial to evaluate the...

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Estimating multidimensional development resilience

Lee, Seungmin; Abay, Kibrom A.; Barrett, Christopher B.; … - 2026

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Estimating multidimensional development resilience

Lee, Seungmin; Abay, Kibrom A.; Barrett, Christopher B.; … - 2024

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Strengthening women's empowerment, climate resilience, and nutrition along the goat value chain in Senegal : a qualitative study

Kane, Papa Abdoulaye; Barry, Mamadou Bobo; Eissler, Sarah; … - 2024

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Nutrition demand, subsistence farming, and agricultural productivity

Gordeev, Stepan - 2026

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Unequal starts : intrahousehold child nutrition inequality in Bangladesh

Kishida, Takaaki; Matsuura-Kannari, Masanori; Islam, … - 2026

Despite significant economic growth in developing countries, child malnutrition remains a daunting challenge. Recent studies indicate that later-born children in these countries often face health disadvantages. This study examines the effects of birth order on child nutrition using four rounds...

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Trade and health : evidence from Indonesia

Patunru, Arianto Arif; Anzika - 2024

We investigate the effects of the food trade on health in Indonesia. In particular, we examine how calories from imported food affect individuals with different classes of body mass index (BMI) across Indonesia. We derived anthropometric information from two main datasets: the Indonesian Basic...

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Trade and health: Evidence from Indonesia

Patunru, Arianto - 2024

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Examining the effects of 4Ps participation on nutritional outcomes in the Philippines

Villanueva, Alyssa; Ulep, Valerie Gilbert; Agcaoili, Rosela - 2024

Over the years, the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) has been at the forefront of the government's efforts to alleviate poverty and improve health and nutrition outcomes among the most vulnerable Filipino families. These programs, which offer financial assistance in return for complying...

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The impact of price promotions on sales of unhealthy food and drink products in British retail stores

Watt, Toby; Beckert, Walter; Smith, Richard; Cornelsen, … - 2023

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What determines the decline of wasting in the Philippines?

Casas, Lyle; Ulep, Valerie Gilbert - 2024

In the past three decades, the prevalence of child wasting in the Philippines has generally fluctuated between 6% and 8%. As a result, the country fell short of the 2022 Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition target of 5%. However, between 2013 and 2018, the decline in the wasting prevalence...

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Investing in nutrition : a global best investment case

Larsen, Bjorn; Hoddinott, John; Razvi, Saleema - 2023

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Socioeconomic Challenges for Occupational Health and Community Development in Mining Regions: A Policy Framework for Integrating Food Interventions

Mayimele, Nsovo - 2026

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Changing climate, changing food consumption? : impact of weather shocks on nutrition in Malawi

McLaughlin, Shannon Marie; Bozzola, Martina; Nugent, Anne - 2023

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Nutrition-sensitive lockdowns : conceptual framework and empirical insights from Africa during COVID-19

Daum, Thomas; Biesalski, Hans-Konrad; Blaschke, Nikola; … - 2023

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Assessing recent changes to the Soft Drinks Industry Levy

Brogaard, Martin; Vyas, Gautam - 2026

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A right to nutrition in Zambia : legal analysis

Kaaba, O'Brian; Gibbons, Sarah; Stirton, Ruth; Harris, Jody - 2026

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Fishery access benefits early childhood development through fish consumption and fishing income pathways

Rasolofoson, Ranaivo A.; Milner, Erin M.; Mattah, Brian J. - 2025

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Land reform and rural transformation : linking land tenure security to labour reallocation, international migration, and nutritional outcomes in sub-saharan africa

Haddis, Solomon - 2026

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Does dairy cooperative membership improve food and nutrition security among rural farmers? : a micro-perspective from Zambia

Ng'ombe, John N.; Kalinda, Thomson H.; Addai, Kwabena Nyarko - 2025

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Nutrition for all? : input subsidies and equitable diets

Ng'ombe, John N.; Prah, Stephen; Kiwanuka-Lubinda, … - 2025

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Helping Nigerians Grow : Food Security and Nutrition Impacts of Safety Nets Interventions in Nigeria

Shrestha, Maheshwor; Okunogbe, Oyebola; Kalra, Naira; … - 2026

A rigorous randomized controlled trial in Nigeria shows that integrated safety nets produce sustained improvements in nutrition and food security for poor households relative to a basic safety nets program, with effects lasting three years. Stunting rates among young children fall by 18 percent...

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Climate variability, crop diversification and rural household welfare : evidence from Senegal

Faye, Adama; Abdulai, Awudu; Ali, Williams; Abbey, … - 2025

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Sustainable Healthy Diets in Cambodia : Evidence for Transforming Food Systems

World Fund Programme of the United Nations - 2026

Food systems should be at the heart of Cambodia’s development, positively influencing health, economic growth, and climate resilience while creating food security. Yet current diets, dominated by large amounts of rice and excessive ultra-processed foods and sugar, are driving a triple burden...

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Childhood nutrition and labor market outcomes : a sequential mediation analysis

Jandoc, Karl Robert L. - 2026

This paper investigates the long-term economic consequences of childhood nutrition in the Philippines, focusing on the mediating roles of cognitive development and schooling. Using longitudinal data from the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey (CLHNS), we apply a sequential mediation...

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Community supported agriculture's perceived positive impacts on mental health and vegetable consumption in Norway and the UK

Milford, Anna-Birgitte; Keech, Daniel; Muiruri, Sarah Wangui - 2025

Community supported agriculture (CSA) is a format for provisioning food, usually vegetables, where consumers are involved, to various degrees, in the production process. In this study of survey data, we explore differences between CSAs in Norway and the UK in terms of organisational models and...

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Causal effects of breastfeeding promotion on child health : understanding the role of nutrition

Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Stearns, Jenna; Martin, Richard M. - 2026

Using data from the only large-scale randomized controlled trial promoting prolonged exclusive breastfeeding, we study how the intervention affected child health and why. The intervention increased weight-for-age in infancy, with effects persisting through adolescence. We show that treated...

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