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Plant Breeding: A Long-term Strategy for the Control of Zinc Deficiency in Vulnerable Populations
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Ruel,   Marie T.; Bouis,   Howarth E.
Because trace minerals are important not only for human nutrition, but for plant nutrition as well, plant breeding holds great promise for making a significant low-cost and sustainable contribution to reducing micronutrient deficiencies in humans, and may have important spinoff effects for increasing farm productivity in developing countries in an environmentally beneficial way. This paper describes ongoing plant breeding research that could increase the intake of bioavailable zinc from food staple crops among vulnerable populations in developing countries. The three most promising plant breeding strategies to achieve this goal are (1) increasing the concentration of zinc in the plant, (2) reducing the amount of phytic acid (a strong inhibitor of zinc...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Human Nutrition; Minerals; Planting Breeding; Crop Production/Industries.
Ano: 1997
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/97295

A Food Demand System Based on Demand for Characteristics: If There is " Curvature" in the Slutsky Matrix, What Do the Curves Look Like and Why?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bouis,   Howarth E.
A food demand system is proposed, based on demand for energy, variety, and tastes of foods. By specifying utility as an explicit function of these characteristics, the entire matrix of demand elasticities can be derived for n foods and one nonfood from prior specification of just four elasticities, while avoiding any assumption of separability between foods. This framework can explain why poorest groups often are most price-responsive, but also can account for highest price-responsiveness by middle income groups. The system is applied to published food consumption data for urban and rural populations in Pakistan. Elasticities are compared with those obtained in a published Pakistan study applying an almost ideal demand system (AIDS).
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Demand and Price Analysis.
Ano: 1995
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42667

AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY AND FOOD POLICY TO COMBAT IRON DEFICIENCY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bouis,   Howarth E.
Breeding for food-staple plant varieties that load high amounts of iron and zinc in their seeds holds great promise for making a significant, low-cost, and sustainable contribution to reducing iron and zinc deficiencies in humans in developing countries. This strategy also may well have important spinoff effects for increasing farm productivity in developing countries in an environmentally-beneficial way. Understanding how household incomes, food prices, and culturally-based preference patterns interact to drive food consumption and nutrient intake patterns can provide crucial background information for designing effective nutrition intervention programs. Research in both of these areas is being pursued under a five-year project organized by the...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.
Ano: 1994
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49996

STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN THE DEMAND FOR FOOD IN ASIA
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Huang,   Jikun; Bouis,   Howarth E.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.
Ano: 1996
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16322

The Determinants of Demand For Micronutrients: An Analysis of Rural Households in Bangladesh
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bouis,   Howarth E.; Novenario-Reese,   Mary Jane G.
Micronutrient deficiencies are particularly severe in Bangladesh. Understanding how household income, food prices, parental education and nutritional knowledge, and culturally based customs and food preferences interact to determine food consumption patterns (particularly for nonstaple foods), and so micronutrient intake, can provide crucial information for designing policies and intervention programs to improve human nutrition. Within the typical dietary patterns of the Bangladeshi survey population, the key food group with respect to micronutrient consumption is vegetables, providing nearly 95 percent of vitamin A intake, 75 percent of vitamin C intake, and 25 percent of iron intake. Vegetables are the least expensive sources of all of these nutrients....
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.
Ano: 1997
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42665

Effects of Agricultural Commercialization on Land Tenure, Household Resource Allocation, and Nutrition in the Philippines
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bouis,   Howarth E.; Haddad,   Lawrence James.
Over the past several years IFPRI has undertaken research on the production, consumption, and nutrition effects of agricultural commercialization in The Gambia, Guatemala, Kenya, the Philippines, and Rwanda. While it is widely recognized that the commercialization of agriculture is essential to overall economic development, various rural population groups adapt differently to the process of commercialization, depending on the resources available to them, economic and social conditions, and government policies. Many households benefit in the form of higher incomes; others may suffer a decline in income. A particular concern of policymakers has been the effect of commercialization on nutrition. The purpose of these studies has been to analyze the process of...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Agriculture; Economic aspects; Philippines; Produce trade; Land tenure; Household; Nutrition; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 1990
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42164

Gender Equality and Investments in Adolescents in the Rural Philippines
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bouis,   Howarth E.; Palabrica-Costello,   Marilou; Solon,   Orville; Westbrook,   Daniel; Limbo,   Azucena B.
For some time now researchers at IFPRI and else where have been studying how resources are allocated within house holds in developing countries and why it matters from a policy perspective. Many social and cultural factors, as well as economic considerations, influence house hold decisions about the allocation of time, income, assets, and other resources. The recently published IFPRI book, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Developing Countries: Models, Methods, and Policy, edited by Lawrence Haddad, John Hoddinott, and Harold Alderman, provides an excellent review of the key relationships and empirical evidence. Many studies have looked at the way resources are distributed to men, women, and especially to small children, but one age group within the...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics; Labor and Human Capital.
Ano: 1998
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37905

THE EGYPTIAN FOOD SUBSIDY SYSTEM: STRUCTURE, PERFORMANCE, AND OPTIONS FOR REFORM
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Ahmed,   Akhter U.; Bouis,   Howarth E.; Gutner,   Tamar L.; Lofgren,   Hans.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16529

Linkages between agriculture and nutrition: implications for policy and research
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Kennedy,   Eileen T.; Bouis,   Howarth E.
Tipo: Book
Palavras-chave: Agricultural research -- Developing countries; Food supply -- Developing countries; Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries; Agricultural innovations -- Developing countries; Nutrition policy -- Developing countries; Agricultural policy -- Developing countries; Nutrition -- Developing countries; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.
Ano: 1993
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42929

Demand for High-value Secondary Crops in Developing Countries: The Case of Potatoes in Bangladesh and Pakistan
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bouis,   Howarth E.; Scott,   Gregory.
Secondary crops are of increasing interest to policymakers and planners in developing countries because of a desire to diversify economic activities and because of their proven potential to raise farm incomes and rural employment. To assess this potential, basic information on the demand characteristics for these crops is required. But, given the large number of possible crops to be studied, policy analysts require an estimation procedure that is less data-intensive and time-intensive than standard econometric estimation procedures. In this paper, a relatively new, low-cost procedure, based on demand for food characteristics, is applied, illustrating its usefulness for analysis of demand for potatoes in Bangladesh and Pakistan. In Asia, the potato should...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Economics; Methodology; Pakistan; Potatoes; Economic aspects; Crop diversification; Price Maintenance; Asia; Bangladesh; Crop Production/Industries.
Ano: 1996
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/97300

WEIGHING WHAT'S PRACTICAL: PROXY MEANS TESTS FOR TARGETING FOOD SUBSIDIES IN EGYPT
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Ahmed,   Akhter U.; Bouis,   Howarth E.
Despite achieving a significant cost reduction over the past two decades, the absolute cost of food subsidies in Egypt is still high relative to the benefits received by the poor. There is scope for better targeting food subsidies, in particular those for rationed cooking oil and sugar, both because reforms in this area are perceived to be far less politically sensitive than adjusting subsidy policies for bread and wheat flour and because higher income groups presently receive a significant percentage of the benefits. Targeting the high-subsidy green ration cards to the poor and the low-subsidy red ration cards to the nonpoor will require identification of both poor and nonpoor households. An International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) research...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16469

WEIGHING WHAT'S PRACTICAL: PROXY MEANS TESTS FOR TARGETING FOOD SUBSIDIES IN EGYPT
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Ahmed,   Akhter U.; Bouis,   Howarth E.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15941