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  • 1
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    The Cost of a Nutritious Diet in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal / (2021)
    Washington, D.C. :The World Bank,
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    almafu_9959833870602883
    Format: 1 online resource (34 pages)
    Series Statement: Policy research working papers.
    Content: This paper calculates and compares the minimum cost of a recommended diet across four countries in South Asia. The analysis finds that the cost of a recommended diet is highest in the smaller countries, such as Bhutan and Nepal, but because of differences in purchasing power, more households are unable to afford the cost of a recommended diet in India. Within countries, the cost and affordability vary across urban and rural areas, subnational areas, and seasons of the year. The cost of perishable food items, such as vegetables and fruits, drives the differences across subnational areas and seasons. In a context of constrained resources, this suggests the need for strategic prioritization of investments and service improvements in transport and storage of food and, more broadly, a rethink of food policies.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9578
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  • 2
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    Managing Risk with Insurance and Savings : Experimental Evidence for Male and Female Farm Managers in the Sahel (2015)
    Washington, D.C., : The World Bank,
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    almafu_9958246528202883
    Format: 1 online resource (29 pages)
    Series Statement: Policy research working papers.
    Content: Although there is fast-growing policy interest in offering financial products to help rural households manage risk, the literature is still scant as to which products are the most effective. This paper uses a randomized field experiment in Senegal and Burkina Faso to compare male and female farmers who are offered index-based agricultural insurance with those who are offered a variety of savings instruments. The paper finds that female farm managers were less likely to purchase agricultural insurance and more likely to invest in savings for emergencies, even controlling for access to informal insurance and differences in crop choice. It is hypothesized that this finding results from the fact that, although men and women are equally exposed to yield risk, women face additional sources of lifecycle risk-particularly health risks associated with fertility and childcare-that men do not. In essence, the basis risk associated with agricultural insurance products is higher for women. Purchasing insurance increased input spending and use more than savings. Those who purchased more insurance realized higher average yields and were better able to manage food insecurity and shocks. This finding suggests that gender differences in demand for financial products can have an impact on productivity, resilience, and welfare.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-7176
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  • 3
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    Intra-Household Inequality in Food Consumption and Diets in the Philippines / (2022)
    Washington, D.C. :The World Bank,
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    almafu_9961265115602883
    Format: 1 online resource (30 pages).
    Series Statement: Policy research working papers
    Content: Most welfare measures, including food expenditure and diet quality, are based on household aggregates and assume an equal or equitable distribution of resources among members within the household. But it is unlikely that resources are distributed equally or equitably within most households. As such, individual food expenditure and diet quality measures, rather than household aggregations, may paint a more accurate picture of intra-household welfare. This paper assesses the disparity between household and individual measurement of food expenditure and diet quality in the Philippines using data from 2013. It finds evidence of intra-household inequality for food expenditure and for diet quality. In particular, for the consumption of starchy staples, meat, fish, and legumes, women and children do not meet the recommended consumption, even within households that, in aggregate, are able to meet the recommended consumption. However, intra-household inequality is not observed under circumstances in which no one in the household meets recommended consumption, as is the case for many food categories in our analysis.
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    The Nutrition Sensitivity of Food and Agriculture in South Asia / (2019)
    Washington, D.C. :The World Bank,
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    almafu_9959045271302883
    Format: 1 online resource (37 pages)
    Series Statement: Policy research working papers.
    Content: Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia, a region characterized by a high level of malnutrition. The review finds that the level and stability of food prices play a critical part in food consumption, with rising prices affecting poor households the most. Although public food transfer programs are aimed at addressing this, most are too small to have a marked effect in protecting or promoting nutrition. Several supply-side food and agricultural interventions suggest promise in improving nutrition, although their effects have yet to be well identified. These include the cultivation of home gardens, animal farming, and use of biofortification and post-harvest fortification. All these efforts will be futile, however, without parallel efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-8766
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  • 5
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    The Cost of Nutritious Food in South Asia / (2018)
    Washington, D.C. :The World Bank,
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    almafu_9958955377702883
    Format: 1 online resource (26 pages)
    Series Statement: Policy research working papers.
    Content: The high cost of nutritious foods can worsen poor diets and nutrition outcomes especially among low-income households. Yet little is known about the spatial and temporal patterns of the cost of nutritious diets in South Asia, where malnutrition in multiple forms remains high. Using existing food price data from Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India, two methods are applied to assess the affordability of nutritious foods: Cost of a Recommended Diet (CoRD) and Nutritious Food Price Index (NPI). The analysis finds that the cost of a nutritious diet is 38 percent higher in Sri Lanka using CoRD compared to the cost of a (calorie-based) diet that meets basic food needs, and 15 percent higher in Afghanistan. In addition, CoRD varies across cities due to variability in the price of dairy and vegetables. Comparison of the NPI and the food Consumer Price Index (CPI) indicates that, for some countries, the price of a nutritious food basket varies more by season and has been increasing at a faster rate than the price of a typical food basket. This phenomenon is largely due to the variable cost of vegetables.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-8557
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    The Geography of Welfare in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, and Togo (2017)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    b3kat_BV048268417
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Other Poverty Study
    Content: This report aims to assess the spatial disparities in economic development along four important dimensions: (i) It provides stylized facts of the underlying forces behind within-country inequality, namely natural endowment, agglomeration economies, and market access. These are the three building blocks of the economic geography literature; (ii) It examines spatial disparities in welfare and poverty. As the agricultural sector is a cornerstone of the economy in this sub-region, the report explores geographical differences in agricultural activity; (iii) It quantifies the roles of natural endowment, agglomeration economies, and market access in determining the spatial distribution of welfare and agricultural productivity; (iv) It suggests a number of policy guidelines that may help improve shared prosperity across space
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/27994
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    Climate change, urban expansion, and food production / (2023)
    Washington, Distict of Columbia :World Bank,
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    almafu_9961128769302883
    Format: 1 online resource (31 pages).
    Series Statement: Policy research working papers
    Content: Where and how cities grow will influence food production and the risks to food production. This paper estimates the overlap of future urban expansion in 2040 and 2100 with current crop and livestock production under different climate scenarios. First, it finds that urban areas will expand most into areas with fruits, vegetables, and chickens, and urban areas will expand most under a scenario with significant challenges to climate change mitigation. Second, the share of food producing areas that will overlap with urban expansion will be largest in Africa, particularly under a scenario of significant challenges to climate change adaptation. Third, across all scenarios, urban expansion is likely to take place in areas with higher crop or livestock production, but even more so when there are significant challenges to both mitigation and adaptation.
    Language: English
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  • 8
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    The cost of nutritious food in South Asia (2018)
    Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group, Agriculture Global Practice & South Asia Chief Economist Office
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    gbv_1031672052
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 26 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 8557
    Content: The high cost of nutritious foods can worsen poor diets and nutrition outcomes especially among low-income households. Yet little is known about the spatial and temporal patterns of the cost of nutritious diets in South Asia, where malnutrition in multiple forms remains high. Using existing food price data from Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India, two methods are applied to assess the affordability of nutritious foods: Cost of a Recommended Diet (CoRD) and Nutritious Food Price Index (NPI). The analysis finds that the cost of a nutritious diet is 38 percent higher in Sri Lanka using CoRD compared to the cost of a (calorie-based) diet that meets basic food needs, and 15 percent higher in Afghanistan. In addition, CoRD varies across cities due to variability in the price of dairy and vegetables. Comparison of the NPI and the food Consumer Price Index (CPI) indicates that, for some countries, the price of a nutritious food basket varies more by season and has been increasing at a faster rate than the price of a typical food basket. This phenomenon is largely due to the variable cost of vegetables
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Dizon, Felipe The Cost of Nutritious Food in South Asia Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2018
    Language: English
    Keywords: Graue Literatur
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-8557
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    The nutrition sensitivity of food and agriculture in South Asia (2019)
    Washington, DC, USA : World Bank Group, Agriculture Global Practice, Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice & South Asia Region
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    UID:
    gbv_1666268666
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 37 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 8766
    Content: Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia, a region characterized by a high level of malnutrition. The review finds that the level and stability of food prices play a critical part in food consumption, with rising prices affecting poor households the most. Although public food transfer programs are aimed at addressing this, most are too small to have a marked effect in protecting or promoting nutrition. Several supply-side food and agricultural interventions suggest promise in improving nutrition, although their effects have yet to be well identified. These include the cultivation of home gardens, animal farming, and use of biofortification and post-harvest fortification. All these efforts will be futile, however, without parallel efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Dizon, Felipe Jr Fadullon The Nutrition Sensitivity of Food and Agriculture in South Asia Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2019
    Language: English
    Keywords: Graue Literatur
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-8766
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  • 10
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    Water Constraints to Agricultural Productivity in Bhutan (2023)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    gbv_1852318910
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (54 pages)
    Content: This paper uses two years of agriculture census data to build a panel dataset that consists of all the small towns in Bhutan. This dataset is used to estimate the impact of irrigation gaps and drought on the yields of paddy, maize, and other crops. The paper compares the estimated impacts from a panel fixed effects model and a spatial first differences model. The findings show that irrigation gaps reduce paddy yields and droughts reduce maize yields. Estimates from the spatial first differences model are found to be consistent relative to those from the panel fixed effects model. The paper further finds that water constraints reduce yields of vegetable crops, and other constraints, such as labor shortages, wild animals, insects, and diseases, also reduce the yields of cereal crops
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Dizon, Felipe Water Constraints to Agricultural Productivity in Bhutan Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2023
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-10410
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