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Nutrition transition in Zambia: Changing food supply, food prices, household consumption, diet and nutrition outcomes [PDF]

open access: yesFood Security, 2019
The nutrition transition literature has generally drawn on epidemiologic and demographic changes to make its argument, because in many cases broader data are not available on the drivers of nutrition change. Going further, this paper draws on wider food systems literature, and includes food price and expenditure data, to join the dots from ...
Jody Harris, Gina Kennedy
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Technology, Nutrition, and the American Food Supply

1980
Sponsored By: National Agricultural Library -- Associates of the National Agricultural Library, Inc. -- [Published in the] Journal of NAL Associates, New Series Vol. 5, Nos. 1/2, January/June 1980.
Rasmussen, Wayne D. [Guest Editor]   +1 more
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Food Usage Patterns As Related To Nutritional Quality Of Household Food Supplies

Home Economics Research Journal, 1986
Nationwide Food Consumption Survey 1977–78 data were used to study the food obtainment patterns and the nutritional quality of diets of households with di etary component returns per dollar of food above and below average. Higher nutrient return per food dollar was more likely for households of larger size and/or lower income levels.
Karen J. Morgan   +3 more
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Food Supplies and Nutrition

2017
Two features of indigenous food supply systems stand out. One is that materials from cultivated crops and domesticated animals, are supplemented with a wide variety of foods from wild sources. The other is that, taken overall and in unstressed conditions, traditional diets are healthy ones, coming much closer to World Health Organization targets than ...
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Models of world food supply, demand and nutrition

Food Policy, 1976
Abstract Computer simulation of the world problematique offers a policy maker an interesting opportunity to see the dynamics of relationships within and between the global subsystems of which food and agriculture is one. The four major modelling studies reviewed in this article make assumptions about the possible level of food supply, technological
John Clark, Sam Cole
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Population Growth, Nutrition and Food Supply

1981
The world food scene is dominated by four powerful forces: the population growth, the accelerating affluence in the industrialized countries, the rapidly increasing armies of the destitute in the developing countries, and the unrestraint urban growth. The lack of historical and biological perspectives has led to two basic fallacies in the evaluation of
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Production Activities, Food Supply and Nutritional Status in Malawi

The Journal of Modern African Studies, 1987
There is continuing concern throughout most of Africa about the supply of food, notably because of its impact on the nutritional status of so many millions.2 In 1984, John Mellor and Bruce Johnston reported on trends in production and indicated that Africa had the slowest food growth rates in comparison with other country groupings throughout the world.
Lila E. Engberg   +2 more
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FOOD SUPPLY, DISTRIBUTION, CONSUMPTION AND NUTRITIONAL STATUS IN BANGLADESH

1989
This paper examines the level and composition of food availability, the role of public food distribution system (PFDS) in modifying the availability and consumption, and assesses the adequacy of overall consumption in relation to nutritional requirement. The PFDS appears to be increasingly assisting some special categories who are either urban or urban-
Talukder, R. K., Talukder, R. K.
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