Publication Year: within 25 Years / Topic: Nutrition

Author:: Verónica Serafini
Publication Date:: 01-2019
Content Type:: Special Report
Institution:: Centro de Análisis y Difusión de la Economía Paraguaya (CADEP)
Abstract:: Verónica Serafini, investigadora del Centro de Análisis y Difusión de la Economía Paraguaya (CADEP) realizó un breve material didáctico sobre el tema de la alimentación en el país que lleva por nombre “PARAGUAY: La paradoja de un país que crece con hambre”. Serafini explica que desde el 2016, según el Banco Mundial, Paraguay es un país de ingreso medio-alto. Y que a pesar de ser el quinto exportador de soja en el mundo (solamente detrás de Estados Unidos, Brasil, Argentina y China) y octavo exportador mundial de carne (detrás de Brasil, India, Australia, Estados Unidos, Nueva Zelanda, Canadá y Uruguay), los problemas vinculados a la alimentación existen y los indicadores muestran que algunos empeoran. La investigadora del CADEP agrega que los indicadores de nutrición no tuvieron ninguna mejoría. Y que el único que mejoró fue el de desnutrición crónica de la niñez, “probablemente relacionado con la implementación de programas como Tekoporá y PANI, lo que revela la importancia de la gestión pública en los problemas que enfrenta la sociedad paraguaya” menciona.
Topic:: Development, Food, Hunger, and Nutrition
Political Geography:: South America and Paraguay

Author:: Nathaniel E. Urama and Denis Nfor Yuni
Publication Date:: 09-2018
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: African Heritage Institution (AfriHeritage)
Abstract:: This study evaluates the performance of food crop sector in Nigeria from 1999-2016. The statistics show that Nigeria is having food insecurity problems: very low value of food production per capita; low and declining average dietary energy supply adequacy; very high variability in per capita food production and supply, and a high depth of food deficit that has been on the increase since 2006. The result also shows that agriculture’s contribution to Nigerian GDP has consistently declined from 37.5 percent in 2002 to 21.2 percent in 2016, and that food crop production declined from over 34 percent of the GDP in 2002 to 18.6 percent in 2016. Due to this high depth of food deficit, over 14 million people in the country are undernourished, and this has been increasing geometrically since 2005. Also, more than six million of the under-five children are stunted, and the consumer price of foods has been high and rising. Compared to other countries, there has not been any significant improvement in reducing the depth of food deficit in Nigeria.
Topic:: Agriculture, Food, Children, Food Security, Economy, and Nutrition
Political Geography:: Africa and Nigeria

Author:: Helene Juillard, Rebecca Lewin, Lili Mohiddin, Marion Pechayre, and Gabrielle Smith
Publication Date:: 03-2017
Content Type:: Case Study
Institution:: Oxfam Publishing
Abstract:: There is growing consensus on the need to consider and support markets as part of humanitarian responses. It is assumed that this support will increase the impact of responses – yet to date such assumptions are rarely supported by data and strong evidence. This evidence synthesis, commissioned by the Humanitarian Evidence Programme and carried out by a team of independent and multidisciplinary consultants, represents the first ever attempt to identify, synthesize and evaluate the existing evidence on the influence of market support interventions on household food security in humanitarian crises. It is accompanied by a stand-alone executive summary and evidence brief.
Topic:: Markets, Food, Humanitarian Crisis, and Nutrition
Political Geography:: Global Focus

Author:: Steven Block
Publication Date:: 08-2002
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
Abstract:: This study extends the literature on the demand for child height to consider the demand for child micronutrient status. Micronutrient malnutrition is a pervasive and debilitating problem in many developing countries. A central focus concerns the distinct roles of maternal schooling versus maternal nutrition knowledge as determinants of micronutrient status. Applying both parametric and non-parametric techniques to Indonesian household data, the study finds that critical determinants include: child gender and age, the number of children in the household, household expenditure levels, access to water, and maternal nutrition knowledge. Maternal schooling contributes to child micronutrient status primarily through its effect on nutrition knowledge (for which schooling is not the primary source), and possibly through its effect on household expenditures.
Topic:: Education, Health, Human Resources, and Nutrition
Political Geography:: Global Focus

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