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...
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Rapid urbanisation affects lifestyle and eating habits, predominantly causing a dietary shift that adds challenges to meet dietary recommendations within a complex food system...
This analysis uses panel data methods to assess how food consumption and dietary diversity are affected by changes in household income composition, diversity, and liquidity in rural...
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Understanding links between value chains, diets, and nutrition is complex, and little rigorous evidence currently exists on these links.
Diagnostics link nutrition problems...
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A new metric of food purchase diversity is used to measure food market participation.
Households with higher food market participation had higher dietary diversity...
There is global debate whether to diversify agricultural production. A study was conducted in 2016 and 2017 in Lilongwe district, Malawi, to determine effects of agricultural diversity on income...
Malawi has suffered from weak economic growth since its independence in 1964. Over 50 percentof the population live below the poverty line, unable to produce enough...
Most studies of agricultural transformation document the impact of agricultural income growth on macroeconomic indicators of development. Much less is known about the micro-scale changes within the farming...
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This article discusses the following six cross-cutting lessons from the emerging microeconomic literature on changes in food insecurity associated with the COVID-19 pandemic:
Food insecurity increases...