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Estudio de casos de país, 2011
The report provides information on food security in Cambodia by comparing food consumption statistics gathered at the household level in 2004 and 2009. It summarizes the key trends over the five year period in undernourishment,...
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Estudio de casos de país, 2011
The primary objective of this study is to identify ways to increase the value of existing food security information systems in order to better meet the needs of the decision‐makers and decision‐making processes in Myanmar....
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ESA Working Papers 11-18
Documento de trabajo, 2011
There is growing evidence that global warming will have a substantial negative impact on agricultural yields, in particular in developing countries. This constitutes a risk for rural households, and unless these households are able to...
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Estudio de casos de país, 2011
This document provides operational guidance for the collection and tabulation of the Household Hunger Scale (HHS)—a new, simple indicator to measure household hunger in food insecure areas. The HHS is different from other household food...
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Manual/directrices, 2011
Dietary diversity is a qualitative measure of food consumption that reflects household access to a variety of foods, and is also a proxy for nutrient adequacy of the diet of individuals. The dietary diversity questionnaire...
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ESA Working Paper 11-17
Documento de trabajo, 2011
This paper investigates the livestock asset positions of rural households and the contribution of livestock to their income in 12 developing countries. It draws on the FAO Rural Income Generating Activities (RIGA) database, which allows...
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ESA Working Paper 11-16
Documento de trabajo, 2011
This paper presents a database of investment and capital in agriculture, an essential input for cross-country macro analysis of the primary sector of the economy. Our work stems from the innovative research undertaken by Larson...
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Nota de política, 2011
Poverty is a broad concept with many faces that mirror dimensions of human welfare. It goes beyond inadequate food or income to access of individuals to basic nutrition, health, education and skills, improved livelihood, good...
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Estudio de casos de país, 2011
A substantial portion of the world's people have not made adequate progress toward overcoming hunger or achieving sustainable livelihoods. The classic approach to addressing chronic food insecurity has been a strategy of agricultural development, supplemented...
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Estudio de casos de país, 2011
Monotonous diets based mainly on energy dense, but micronutrient poor starchy staples are common in food insecure areas and contribute to the burden of malnutrition, particularly inadequate micronutrient intake. Food-based strategies have been recommended as...
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