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Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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País: |
United States
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Título: |
Local Food Impacts on Health and Nutrition
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Autores: |
Ferrer, Myra Clarisse R.
Fonsah, Esendugue Greg
Ramirez, Octavio A.
Escalante, Cesar L.
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Data: |
2011-05-03
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Ano: |
2011
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Palavras-chave: |
Local foods
Diabetes
Obesity
Food environment
Farmers' market
Agricultural and Food Policy
Consumer/Household Economics
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Health Economics and Policy
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Resumo: |
Prevalence of local foods is believed to answer several food issues one of which is health and nutrition. This study focused on the on the availability of local foods to consumers and see its relationship with two specific diet-related diseases namely, obesity and diabetes. Other variables were included in the analysis to provide additional evidence to previous findings. Factors considered are divided into 5 groups namely diet-, local food-, environment-, education- and gender-related factors. Diet- and environment-related variables provide the most perceptive findings while local food variables provided significant however weak evidence of positive impacts to health and nutrition.
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Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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Idioma: |
Inglês
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Identificador: |
http://purl.umn.edu/103664
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Relação: |
Agricultural and Applied Economics Association>2011 Annual Meeting, July 24-26, 2011, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Formato: |
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