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International Food Policy Research Institute

NonprofitWashington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
About: International Food Policy Research Institute is a nonprofit organization based out in Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Food security & Agriculture. The organization has 1217 authors who have published 4952 publications receiving 218436 citations.


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the linkage between farm production diversity and household dietary diversity in rural Ghana and how that linkage changed between 2005-06 and 2012-13, using a regression model that controls for region-and time-fixed effects.

91 citations

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TL;DR: Indian diets, across states and income groups, are unhealthy and policymakers need to accelerate food-system-wide efforts to make healthier and sustainable diets more affordable, accessible and acceptable.
Abstract: The 2019 EAT-Lancet Commission report recommends healthy diets that can feed 10 billion people by 2050 from environmentally sustainable food systems. This study compares food consumption patterns in India, from different income groups, regions and sectors (rural/urban), with the EAT-Lancet reference diet and highlights the deviations. The analysis was done using data from the Consumption Expenditure Survey (CES) of a nationally representative sample of 0.102 million households from 7469 villages and 5268 urban blocks of India conducted by the National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) in 2011–12. This is the most recent nationally representative data on household consumption in India. Calorie consumption (kcal/capita/day) of each food group was calculated using the quantity of consumption from the data and nutritional values of food items provided by NSSO. Diets for rural and urban, poor and rich households across different regions were compared with EAT-Lancet reference diet. The average daily calorie consumption in India is below the recommended 2503 kcal/capita/day across all groups compared, except for the richest 5% of the population. Calorie share of whole grains is significantly higher than the EAT-Lancet recommendations while those of fruits, vegetables, legumes, meat, fish and eggs are significantly lower. The share of calories from protein sources is only 6–8% in India compared to 29% in the reference diet. The imbalance is highest for the households in the lowest decile of consumption expenditure, but even the richest households in India do not consume adequate amounts of fruits, vegetables and non-cereal proteins in their diets. An average Indian household consumes more calories from processed foods than fruits. Indian diets, across states and income groups, are unhealthy. Indians also consume excess amounts of cereals and not enough proteins, fruits, and vegetables. Importantly, unlike many countries, excess consumption of animal protein is not a problem in India. Indian policymakers need to accelerate food-system-wide efforts to make healthier and sustainable diets more affordable, accessible and acceptable.

91 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the relation between soluble transferrin receptor (sTfR) concentrations and inflammation and malaria in preschool children (PSC) and women of reproductive age (WRA) was assessed and adjustment algorithms to account for these effects.

91 citations

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TL;DR: The importance of technological advance to economic growth has become accepted fact as discussed by the authors, yet the answers to questions of who adopts new technologies, how quickly, and at what cost to society remain elusive.
Abstract: The importance of technological advance to economic growth has become accepted fact. Yet the answers to questions of who adopts new technologies, how quickly, and at what cost to society remain elusive. While these issues are not unique throughout history, the advent of biological and chemical technologies that are both divisible and scale-neutral and the experiences referred to as the "Green Revolution" in the latter-half of the twentieth century throughout much of Asia have fostered a lively and long debate on the growth and particularly the distributional consequences of technological change in the agriculture of developing countries.

90 citations

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TL;DR: The article concludes with an analysis of the political challenges and opportunities presented by the double burden and some suggestions for a leadership agenda within the region to address it.
Abstract: The double burden of malnutrition is defined by the co-existence of serious levels of under- and overnutrition.(1) Nowhere have overweight rates risen as fast as in the regions of South East Asia and the Pacific. The regions are also burdened with high and often stagnant levels of undernutrition. For countries for which data are available, the regions contain nearly half of the individuals, world wide, suffering from a double burden of malnutrition. This article reviews the trends and their consequences and for nine countries in these two regions it reviews the drivers of the problem and attempts to manage it. The article concludes with an analysis of the political challenges and opportunities presented by the double burden and some suggestions for a leadership agenda within the region to address it.

90 citations


Authors

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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Michael B. Zimmermann8343723563
Kenneth H. Brown7935323199
Thomas Reardon7928525458
Marie T. Ruel7730022862
John Hoddinott7535721372
Mark W. Rosegrant7331522194
Agnes R. Quisumbing7231118433
Johan F.M. Swinnen7057020039
Stefan Dercon6925917696
Jikun Huang6943018496
Gregory J. Seymour6638517744
Lawrence Haddad6524324931
Rebecca J. Stoltzfus6122413711
Ravi Kanbur6149819422
Ruth Meinzen-Dick6123713707
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
202321
202267
2021351
2020330
2019367
2018272