Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Agricultural-food Policy Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Food Policy in the United States
Author: Parke WildePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1849714282
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This book offers a broad introduction to food policies in the United States. Real-world controversies and debates motivate the book's attention to economic principles, policy analysis, nutrition science and contemporary data sources. It assumes that the reader's concern is not just the economic interests of farmers, but also includes nutrition, sustainable agriculture, the environment and food security. The book's goal is to make US food policy more comprehensible to those inside and outside the agri-food sector whose interests and aspirations have been ignored. The chapters cover US agriculture, food production and the environment, international agricultural trade, food and beverage manufacturing, food retail and restaurants, food safety, dietary guidance, food labeling, advertising and federal food assistance programs for the poor. The author is an agricultural economist with many years of experience in the non-profit advocacy sector, the US Department of Agriculture and as a professor at Tufts University. The author's well-known blog on US food policy provides a forum for discussion and debate of the issues set out in the book.
Agricultural-food Policy Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Agricultural-food Policy Review :.
Author: Agricultural-food Policy Review
Author: Stati Uniti. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research Servi cePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Womens Empowerment and Nutrition
Author: Mara van den BoldPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Many development programs that aim to alleviate poverty and improve investments in human capital consider womens empowerment a key pathway by which to achieve impact and often target women as their main beneficiaries. Despite this, womens empowerment dimensions are often not rigorously measured and are at times merely assumed. This paper starts by reflecting on the concept and measurement of womens empowerment and then reviews some of the structural interventions that aim to influence underlying gender norms in society and eradicate gender discrimination. It then proceeds to review the evidence of the impact of three types of interventionscash transfer programs, agricultural interventions, and microfinance programson womens empowerment, nutrition, or both. Qualitative evidence on conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs generally points to positive impacts on womens empowerment, although quantitative research findings are more heterogenous. CCT programs produce mixed results on long-term nutritional status, and very limited evidence exists of their impacts on micronutrient status. The little evidence available on unconditional cash transters (UCT) indicates mixed impacts on womens empowerment and positive impacts on nutrition; however, recent reviews comparing CCT and UCT programs have found little difference in terms of their effects on stunting and they have found that conditionality is less important than other factors, such as access to healthcare and child age and sex. Evidence of cash transfer program impacts depending on the gender of the transfer recipient or on the conditionality is also mixed, although CCTs with non-health conditionalities seem to have negative impacts on nutritional status. The impacts of programs based on the gender of the transfer recipient show mixed results, but almost no experimental evidence exists of testing gender-differentiated impacts of a single program. Agricultural interventionsspecifically home gardening and dairy projectsshow mixed impacts on womens empowerment measures such as time, workload, and control over income; but they demonstrate very little impact on nutrition. Implementation modalities are shown to determine differential impacts in terms of empowerment and nutrition outcomes. With regard to the impact of microfinance on womens empowerment, evidence is also mixed, although more recent reviews do not find any impact on womens empowerment. The impact of microfinance on nutritional status is mixed, with no evidence of impact on micronutrient status. Across all three types of programs (cash transfer programs, agricultural interventions, and microfinance programs), very little evidence exists on pathways of impact, and evidence is often biased toward a particular region. The paper ends with a discussion of the findings and remaining evidence gaps and an outline of recommendations for research.
Agricultural-Food Policy Review - U.S. Agricultural Policies in a Changing World
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Agricultural-food Policy Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
AGRICULTURAL - Food Policy Review
Author: OECD Agriculture and Food Policy Reviews Policies for the Future of Farming and Food in Norway
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264726810
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Norway is performing unevenly across its four agricultural policy objectives. While Norway enjoys a high level of food security and is meeting its aim of maintaining agricultural production across the country, both environmental performance and the efficient creation of value added along the food chain are compromised by support policies linked to production levels.