Key findings: Using nationally representative household panel survey data from five sub-Saharan African countries, the article models consumer preferences and examine how nutrient...
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Highlights: We use a unique data set to analyze rural households' purchases of food in Sub-Saharan Africa using nationally representative data with 65,000 observations covering...
Highlights: Many cash transfer programs include nutrition training, but little is known about how doing so affects economic impacts. We study a program...
Global evidence base versus practice in five country examples
Overweight and obesity rates across low- and middle-income countries are approaching levels in high-income countries...
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Addressing poor diet quality is emerging as an important development policy priority.
Our Reference Diet Deprivation (ReDD) index is a quantifiable measure...
West African countries have made impressive progress in fighting against malnutrition and hunger and ensuring food quality and varying food choices. This paper aimed for the first...
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There is a push to improve the sustainability of rice production globally.
The Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) advances sustainability along 12 performance indicators.
Rice production...
Home to one-quarter of humanity—one-fifth of whom are youth—South Asia has the world’s largest concentration of poverty and malnutrition (1–3). Despite producing one-quarter of the world’s consumed food...
Zinc deficiency is a severe public health problem in Bangladesh. We examine the effects of nutritional information on rural consumers’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) for two ways to increase zinc...
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We test the individual and joint impacts of three marketing messages through a field experiment eliciting willingness to pay for fortified rice – a health...