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International Food Policy Research Institute
Nonprofit•Washington 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: Agriculture & Food security. 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 impact of PROGRESA, a Mexican anti-poverty and human resource program, on child nutritional status and found that it had significant and substantial positive impacts in increasing stature.
Abstract: The assessment of the impact of social programs is the subject of lively, sometimes heated debate over whether program evaluation is best conducted either by comparing mean outcomes from a randomized intervention or by using econometric techniques with nonrandom samples. This paper contributes to this debate through an examination of PROGRESA, a Mexican anti-poverty and human resource program, on child nutritional status. PROGRESA was randomly assigned at the locality level. However, a shortage in the availability of one component– a nutritional supplement provided to preschool children –led local administrators to exercise discretion in its delivery, systematically favoring those children with poorer nutritional status. While comparisons of mean outcomes suggest that PROGRESA had no or a negative effect on nutritional status, estimates that control for this heterogeneity using child specific fixed effects find that PROGRESA had significant and substantial positive impacts in increasing stature. The long-term consequences of these improvements are non-trivial; its impact working through adult height alone may result in a 2.9% increase in lifetime earnings.
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TL;DR: Effective targeting of specific education messages to improve child feeding practices and use of preventive health care could have a major impact on reducing childhood malnutrition in Accra.
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TL;DR: This work focuses on three specific issues that reflect the impact of this supermarket revolution in developing countries, particularly in Asia: continuity in transformation, innovation in Transformation, and unique development strategies.
Abstract: A “supermarket revolution” has occurred in developing countries in the past 2 decades. We focus on three specific issues that reflect the impact of this revolution, particularly in Asia: continuity in transformation, innovation in transformation, and unique development strategies. First, the record shows that the rapid growth observed in the early 2000s in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand has continued, and the “newcomers”—India and Vietnam—have grown even faster. Although foreign direct investment has been important, the roles of domestic conglomerates and even state investment have been significant and unique. Second, Asia's supermarket revolution has exhibited unique pathways of retail diffusion and procurement system change. There has been “precocious” penetration of rural towns by rural supermarkets and rural business hubs, emergence of penetration of fresh produce retail that took much longer to initiate in other regions, and emergence of Asian retail developing-country multinational chains. In procurement, a symbiosis between modern retail and the emerging and consolidating modern food processing and logistics sectors has arisen. Third, several approaches are being tried to link small farmers to supermarkets. Some are unique to Asia, for example assembling into a “hub” or “platform” or “park” the various companies and services that link farmers to modern markets. Other approaches relatively new to Asia are found elsewhere, especially in Latin America, including “bringing modern markets to farmers” by establishing collection centers and multipronged collection cum service provision arrangements, and forming market cooperatives and farmer companies to help small farmers access supermarkets.
317 citations
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TL;DR: The health effects of climate change from changes in dietary and weight-related risk factors could be substantial, and exceed other climate-related health impacts that have been estimated.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used data collected from a 1997 household survey carried out in Accra, Ghana to look at the crucial role that women play as income earners and securing access to food in urban areas.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Michael B. Zimmermann | 83 | 437 | 23563 |
Kenneth H. Brown | 79 | 353 | 23199 |
Thomas Reardon | 79 | 285 | 25458 |
Marie T. Ruel | 77 | 300 | 22862 |
John Hoddinott | 75 | 357 | 21372 |
Mark W. Rosegrant | 73 | 315 | 22194 |
Agnes R. Quisumbing | 72 | 311 | 18433 |
Johan F.M. Swinnen | 70 | 570 | 20039 |
Stefan Dercon | 69 | 259 | 17696 |
Jikun Huang | 69 | 430 | 18496 |
Gregory J. Seymour | 66 | 385 | 17744 |
Lawrence Haddad | 65 | 243 | 24931 |
Rebecca J. Stoltzfus | 61 | 224 | 13711 |
Ravi Kanbur | 61 | 498 | 19422 |
Ruth Meinzen-Dick | 61 | 237 | 13707 |