Fisheries and Aquaculture and Their Potential Roles in Development: An Assessment of the Current Evidence [PDF]
, 2013 Commissioned by the International Sustainability Unity, this report investigates a number of innovative solutions that have been developed to deal with five key challenges that are impeding progress in achieving sustainable fisheries: overcapacity ...
Carl Harris +6 more
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School Milk Consumption in Germany - What are Important Product Attributes for Children and Parents? [PDF]
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety,
Christoph, Inken B. +5 more
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From "best practice" to "best fit": a framework for designing and analyzing pluralistic agricultural advisory services worldwide [PDF]
"The paper develops a framework for the design and analysis of pluralistic agricultural advisory services and reviews research methods from different disciplines that can be used when applying the framework.
Anandajayasekeram, Ponniah +10 more
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Building coalitions, creating change: An agenda for gender transformative research in agricultural development [PDF]
, 2012 The CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) has developed its Gender Research in Development Strategy centered on a transformative approach. Translating this strategy into actual research and development practice poses a considerable
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Food System and Food Security Study for the City of Cape Town [PDF]
, 2014 Food insecurity is a critical, but poorly understood, challenge for the health and development of Capetonians. Food insecurity is often imagined as hunger, but it is far broader than that.
Battersby, Jane +4 more
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Hunger and Food Insecurity in Nairobi's Slums: An assessment using IRT models' [PDF]
Although linked to poverty as conditions reflecting inadequate access to resources to obtain food, issues such as hunger and food insecurity have seldom been recognized as important in urban settings.
BASCHIERI Angela +3 more
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Creating a child feeding index using the demographic and health surveys [PDF]
Data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for five Latin American countries (seven data sets) were used to explore the feasibility of creating a composite feeding index and to examine the association between feeding practices and child height ...
Menon, Purnima, Ruel, Marie T.
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The German organic sector from the perspective of social-ecological research on agriculture and nutrition [PDF]
, 2008 Social-ecological research analyses agriculture and nutrition from the perspective of sustainable development. This interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach embeds the organic sector in a broad societal and ecological context, integrating ...
Noelting, Dr. Benjamin
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Impact Evaluations and Development: Nonie Guidance on Impact Evaluation [PDF]
, 2009 In international development, impact evaluation is principally concerned with final results of interventions (programs, projects, policy measures, reforms) on the welfare of communities, households, and individuals, including taxpayers and voters. Impact
Frans Leeuw, Jos Vaessen
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Making Sense and Talking Sense: A Case Study of the Correlations Between Sensemaking, Identity and Image in the New Zealand Functional Food Industry [PDF]
, 2011 Functional foods are purported by scientists to provide consumers with health benefits over and above food’s most basic uses: providing energy and sustaining life.
Worth, Benjamin John
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