An edition of Food security, poverty, and nutrition policy analysis
(2009)
Food security, poverty, and nutrition policy analysis
statistical methods and policy applications
1st ed.
by Suresh Chandra Babu and Prabuddha Sanyal
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Statistical methods, Mathematical models, Food supply, Nutrition policy, Decision making, Food supply, government policy, Poverty, Food security, Politique alimentaire, Prise de décision, Méthodes statistiques, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, Industries, Agribusiness, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING, Agriculture, Sustainable AgricultureShowing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
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Food Security, Poverty and Nutrition Policy Analysis: Statistical Methods and Applications
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Food Security, Poverty and Nutrition Policy Analysis: Statistical Methods and Applications
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Food Security, Poverty and Nutrition Policy Analysis: Statistical Methods and Applications
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Food security, poverty, and nutrition policy analysis: statistical methods and policy applications
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Table of Contents
Section I: Food security policy analysis
1. Introduction to food security: concepts and measurement
2. Implications of technological change, post-harvest technology and technology adoption for improved food security - application of t- Statistic
3. Effects of commercialization of agriculture (shift from traditional crop to cash crop) on food consumption and nutrition - application of chi-square statistic
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
5. Changes in food consumption patterns: The issue and its importance to food security - application of one-way ANOVA
6. Impact of market access on food security - application of factor analysis
Section II: Nutrition policy analysis
7. Impact of maternal education and care on preschoolers' nutrition - application of two-way ANOVA
8. Indicators and causal factors of nutrition - application of correlation analysis
9. Effects of individual, household and community indicators on child's nutritional status - application of simple linear regression
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
11. Predicting child nutritional status using related socio-economic variables - application of discriminant function analysis
12. Measurement and determinants of poverty - application of logistic regression models
13. Classifying households on food security and poverty dimensions - application of K-mean cluster analysis
14. Household care as a determinant of nutritional status - application of instrumental variable estimation
15. Achieving an ideal diet - modeling with linear programming
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Edition Notes
"This book is largely motivated by and based on three decades of food and nutrition policy research at the International Food Policy Research Institute. In the mid-nineties, the data based statistical methods were combined with selected case studies from IFPRI research on food and nutrition security issues to form a training manual ... This book [is] a substantially revised version of the manual ..."--Preface.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-396) and index.
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