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Food Security, Poverty and Nutrition Analysis provides essential insights into the evaluative techniques necessary for creating appropriate and effective policies and programs to address these worldwide issues. Using a conceptual framework for exploring representative problems, the book presents inf...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: International Food Policy Research Institute
Otros Autores: Babu, Suresh Chandra, Sanyal, Prabuddha
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press, 2009.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
Food supply > Mathematical models.
Nutrition policy > Decision making > Statistical methods.
Politique alimentaire > Prise de d�ecision > M�ethodes statistiques.
Aliments > Approvisionnement > Mod�eles math�ematiques.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Agribusiness.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Sustainable Agriculture.
Food supply > Mathematical models
voedselzekerheid
food security
beleid inzake voedsel
food policy
voedingsbeleid
nutrition policy
armoede
poverty
gegevensanalyse
data analysis
statistiek
statistics
beslissingsondersteunende systemen
decision support systems
toegepaste statistiek
applied statistics
Food Security
Voedselzekerheid
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Section I: Food Security Policy Analysis
  • Introduction to Section I: Food Security Policy Analysis
  • Chapter 1. Introduction to Food Security: Concepts and Measurement
  • Chapter 2. Implications of Technological Change, Post-Harvest Technology and Technology Adoption for Improved Food Security- Application of t- Statistic
  • Chapter 3. Effects of Commercialization of Agriculture (Shift from Traditional Crop
  • to Cash Crop) on Food Consumption and Nutrition- Application of Chi-square
  • Statistic
  • Chapter 4. Effects of Commercialization of Agriculture or Technology Adoption
  • and Gender of Household Head: The Issue, its Importance in Food Security
  • Application of Cramer's V and Phi Coefficient Chapter 5. Changes in Food Consumption Patterns: The Issue and its Importance to
  • Food Security
  • Application of One-way ANOVA
  • Chapter 6. Impact of Market Access on Food Security
  • Application of Factor
  • analysis
  • Section II: Nutrition Policy Analysis
  • Introduction to Section II: Nutrition Policy Analysis
  • Chapter 7. Impact of Maternal Education and Care on Preschoolers' Nutrition
  • Application of Two-way ANOVA
  • Chapter 8. Indicators and Causal Factors of Nutrition
  • Application of Correlation Analysis
  • Chapter 9. Effects of Individual, Household and Community Indicators on Child's Nutritional Status
  • Application of Simple Linear Regression Chapter 10. Female education and Community Characteristics as Indicators of
  • Nutritional Status of Children-Application of Multivariate Regression
  • Section III: Special Topics on Poverty, Nutrition, and Food Policy Analysis
  • Introduction to Section III: Special Topics on Poverty, Nutrition and Food Policy Analysis
  • Chapter 11. Predicting Child Nutritional Status Using related Socio-economic
  • Variables
  • Application of Discriminant Function Analysis
  • Chapter 12. Measurement and Determinants of Poverty- Application of Logistic Regression Models
  • Chapter 13. Classifying Households on Food Security and Poverty Dimensions
  • Application of K-mean Cluster Analysis
  • Chapter 14. Household Care as a Determinant of Nutritional Status- Application of Instrumental Variable Estimation
  • Chapter 15. Achieving an Ideal Diet
  • Modeling with Linear Programming
  • Technical Appendices
  • Statistical Tables
  • Bibliography.

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