Highlights: Households in SSA's secondary cities mainly purchase food from open-air markets. While price matters, households shop based on preferences for whole foods. Food...
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Micronutrient deficiencies in low-income countries are associated with the monotonous consumption of nutrient-deficient crops, contributing to childhood stunting with far-reaching socioeconomic consequences. To promote nutrition sensitive agriculture...
Despite African consumers under-consuming nutrient dense fruits and vegetables (FV) and animal products (AP), and the farm production and supply chains of these products are fraught...
There is conflicting evidence on the association between farm production diversity and dietary diversity, worldwide. Notwithstanding this, farmer input subsidy programmes aimed at promoting both...
Hunger and malnutrition remain enormous challenges in low-income countries. Many of the malnourished live in smallholder farm households in sub-Saharan Africa. Agricultural intervention programs increasingly aspire...
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We use rural & urban level representative phone survey data from 5 African countries.
Impacts of COVID-19 were highly correlated...
In the quest to reduce global under- and malnutrition, which are particularly high among smallholder farmers, agriculture-nutrition linkages are receiving increasing attention. Researchers have...
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Informal food vendors expand the spatial footprint of the urban food system.
Informal food vendors facilitate cross-scale food system linkages.
Informal food...
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33% of sampled households in Zambia and Kenya engage in urban agriculture.
Urban agriculture is not strongly related to urban food security.
Barriers include settlement...
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We report on 9201 interviews with smallholder farmers on the effects of COVID-19 and associated restrictions during 2020.
Effects attributed to restrictions were widespread and...