Support for agriculture during economic transformation: Impacts on poverty and undernutrition

Webb, Patrick; Block, Steven A.

doi:10.1073/pnas.0913334108

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“…BDietary quality^has been described as having at least two basic components: adequacy of healthpromoting foods, food groups and nutrients; and moderation of foods, food groups and nutrients linked with poor health outcomes (Guenther et al 2008). Agricultural GDP growth is associated with faster reductions in undernutrition, and also faster increases in overweight and obesity than nonagricultural GDP growth (Webb and Block 2012). Mainly this is because agricultural GDP reaches the poor more effectively (World Bank 2007b).…”

Section: Does Increased Income Lead To Improved Diets?mentioning

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The food environment, its effects on dietary consumption, and potential for measurement within agriculture-nutrition interventions

Herforth¹,

2015

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The food environment in markets constrains and signals consumers what to purchase. It encompasses availability, affordability, convenience, and desirability of various foods. The effect of income on dietary consumption is always modified by the food environment. Many agricultural interventions aim to improve incomes, increase food availability and reduce food prices. Their effects on nutrition could be better understood if food environment measures helped to explain how additional income is likely to be spent, and how food availability and prices change as a result of large-scale interventions. Additionally, measurement of the food environment could elucidate food access gaps and inform the design of nutrition-sensitive interventions. This paper reviews existing measures of the food environment, and then draws from these tools to suggest ways the food environment could be measured in future studies and monitoring.

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Section: Does Increased Income Lead To Improved Diets?mentioning

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The food environment, its effects on dietary consumption, and potential for measurement within agriculture-nutrition interventions

Herforth¹,

2015

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“…Both effects are strongly correlated with policy support for agriculture, which poses a quandary for developing country policy makers. Webb and Block (7) conclude that, to bring about a more sustainable societal transition, policy makers must avoid assuming that other health and nutrition problems will be taken care of through economic growth. Transitional processes must be better managed if the negative consequences of obesity and NCDs are to be mitigated.…”

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“…With one exception [the examination by Timmer (8) of the formation of smallholders' price expectations during food price crises], the papers in this feature have only partially integrated or expanded on developments in decision sciences and behavioral economics (6,7,(9)(10)(11)(12)(14)(15)(16). A deeper consideration of this knowledge is needed to provide an actionable understanding of the array of rational and less rational motives and processes driving human decision making and behavior in diverse reallife contexts (2).…”

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Paths of convergence for agriculture, health, and wealth

Dubé

Pingali

Webb

2012

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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This special feature calls for forward thinking around paths of convergence for agriculture, health, and wealth. Such convergence aims for a richer integration of smallholder farmers into national and global agricultural and food systems, health systems, value chains, and markets. The articles identify analytical innovation, where disciplines intersect, and cross-sectoral action where single, linear, and siloed approaches have traditionally dominated. The issues addressed are framed by three main themes: ( i ) lessons related to agricultural and food market growth since the 1960s; ( ii ) experiences related to the integration of smallholder agriculture into national and global business agendas; and ( iii ) insights into convergence-building institutional design and policy, including a review of complexity science methods that can inform such processes. In this introductory article, we first discuss the perspectives generated for more impactful policy and action when these three themes converge. We then push thematic boundaries to elaborate a roadmap for a broader, solution-oriented, and transdisciplinary approach to science, policies, and actions. As the global urban population crosses the 50% mark, both smallholder and nonsmallholder agriculture are keys in forging rural–urban links, where both farm and nonfarm activities contribute to sustainable nutrition security. The roadmaps would harness the power of business to reduce hunger and poverty for millions of families, contribute to a better alignment between human biology and modern lifestyles, and stem the spread of noncommunicable chronic diseases.

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“…The criterion function of food security studies the dynamics of agricultural sustainability [7] [8]. Such an objective criterion function of agriculture in a generalized system study also conveys the meaning of wellbeing.…”

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Agriculture as Social Wellbeing System in Food Security: An Epistemological Study

Choudhury¹,

Abbas²

2017

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The theme of agriculture as system though it is commonly understood is an innovative area of research and erudition. It involves both a technical meaning of system and cybernetic as these arise in respect of their epistemological meaning of unity of knowledge in highly complementary orders; as well as some of the wellbeing implications are studied in methodological way within the substantive context of system and cybernetic. The result then is a scientific, technical, and social development of the theme of agriculture as system for the common human good. Within this meaningful connotation, the economics of agriculture is invoked. This area is further extended to the broader field of ecology, resource, and environment inter-causal linkages within and between them. The treatment of agriculture as system and cybernetic study then leads into methodological and mathematical formalism that can be formulated as a model of evaluation of wellbeing subject to simulacra of multidimensional variable interrelationship. With data searched by the researchers in further studies in this area of agriculture system, the wellbeing simulation subject to circular causation between the multidimensional variables can be empirically evaluated using sophisticated statistical programs. Resulting policy and inter-system results can be analyzed to derive socioeconomic inferences. A plethora of further technical studies with the methodological features of system and cybernetic study can be derived.

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Support for agriculture during economic transformation: Impacts on poverty and undernutrition

Cited by 113 publications

References 16 publications

The food environment, its effects on dietary consumption, and potential for measurement within agriculture-nutrition interventions

The food environment, its effects on dietary consumption, and potential for measurement within agriculture-nutrition interventions

Paths of convergence for agriculture, health, and wealth

Agriculture as Social Wellbeing System in Food Security: An Epistemological Study

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