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Health and nutrition effects of commercialization of agriculture

author(s) Kennedy, Eileen
from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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themes
regions
  • Melanesia
  • Oceania
  • World
  • South-Eastern Asia
  • Asia
  • Western Africa
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Africa
  • Eastern Africa
  • Central America
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Americas
  • Eastern Asia
  • Southern Asia
citation

Kennedy, Eileen, 'Health and nutrition effects of commercialization of agriculture', In Agricultural commercialization, economic development, and nutrition. von Braun, Joachim and Kennedy, Eileen T. (Eds.) Chapter 5 Pp. 79-99, Published for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) by Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 1994

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Abstract

One of the most contentious issues in the cash crop/food crop debate revolves around the impact of commercialization of agriculture on the health and nutritional status of women and children/ This chaper examines the effects of commercialization of agriculture on preschoolers' health nad nutritional status. The chapter also assesses the effects on women along the lines of the conceptual ramework described in chapter 2.

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