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The Debate: Is Global Development Adapting to Climate Change? (2020)
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Schipper, E. L. F., Tanner, T., Dube, O. P., Adams, K., & Huq, S. (2020). The Debate: Is Global Development Adapting to Climate Change?. World Development Perspectives, 18, Article 100205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2020.100205

The debate about the relationship between adaptation to climate change and development has been ongoing for over two decades. Adaptation is about risk reduction, the pursuit of opportunity and rethinking investments, planning and behaviour, which is... Read More about The Debate: Is Global Development Adapting to Climate Change?.

Regime shifts occur disproportionately faster in larger ecosystems (2020)
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Cooper, G. S. (2020). Regime shifts occur disproportionately faster in larger ecosystems. Nature Communications, 11, Article 1175. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15029-x

Regime shifts can abruptly affect hydrological, climatic and terrestrial systems, leading to degraded ecosystems and impoverished societies. While the frequency of regime shifts is predicted to increase, the fundamental relationships between the spat... Read More about Regime shifts occur disproportionately faster in larger ecosystems.

What underlies inadequate and unequal fruit and vegetable consumption in India? An exploratory analysis (2019)
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Choudhury, S., Shankar, B., Aleksandrowicz, L., Tak, M., Green, R., Harris, F., Scheelbeek, P., & Dangour, A. D. (2020). What underlies inadequate and unequal fruit and vegetable consumption in India? An exploratory analysis. Global Food Security, 24, Article 100332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2019.100332

Adequate consumption of fruit and vegetables is key to improved diet-related health in India. We analyse fruit and vegetable consumption in the Indian population using National Sample Survey data. A series of regressions is estimated to characterise... Read More about What underlies inadequate and unequal fruit and vegetable consumption in India? An exploratory analysis.

Food production and consumption in Bamyan Province, Afghanistan: the challenges of sustainability and seasonality for dietary diversity (2019)
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Poole, N., Amiri, H., Amiri, S. M., Farhank, I., & Zanello, G. (2019). Food production and consumption in Bamyan Province, Afghanistan: the challenges of sustainability and seasonality for dietary diversity. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 17(6), 413-430. https://doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2019.1680229

In Asia, high levels of malnutrition threaten the health and livelihoods of millions of households. This paper concentrates on linkages between agriculture and nutrition in Afghanistan where food and nutrition insecurity are increasing and agricultur... Read More about Food production and consumption in Bamyan Province, Afghanistan: the challenges of sustainability and seasonality for dietary diversity.

Sleight is Right: Cyber Control as a New Battleground for African Elections (2019)
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Amoah, M. (2019). Sleight is Right: Cyber Control as a New Battleground for African Elections. African Affairs, 119(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adz023

Sleight of hand in manipulating the computation of results has become the new might for deciding who wins presidential elections. It appears that whoever controls the computation exercises a right to take advantage and win, and whoever loses or relin... Read More about Sleight is Right: Cyber Control as a New Battleground for African Elections.

First foods: Diet quality among infants aged 6–23 months in 42 countries (2019)
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Choudhury, S., Headey, D., & Masters, W. (2019). First foods: Diet quality among infants aged 6–23 months in 42 countries. Food Policy, 88, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2019.101762

Diet quality is closely linked to child growth and development, especially among infants aged 6–23 months who need to complement breastmilk with the gradual introduction of nutrient-rich solid foods. This paper links Demographic and Health Survey dat... Read More about First foods: Diet quality among infants aged 6–23 months in 42 countries.

Evidence on the magnitude of the economic, health and population effects of palm cooking oil consumption: an integrated modelling approach with Thailand as a case study (2019)
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Keogh-Brown, M. R., Jensen, H. T., Basu, S., Aekplakorn, W., Cuevas, S., Dangour, A. D., Gheewala, S. H., Green, R., Joy, E. J., Rojroongwasinkul, N., Thaiprasert, N., Shankar, B., & Smith, R. D. (2019). Evidence on the magnitude of the economic, health and population effects of palm cooking oil consumption: an integrated modelling approach with Thailand as a case study. Population Health Metrics, 17(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12963-019-0191-y

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Palm oil’s high yields, consequent low cost and highly versatile properties as a cooking oil and food ingredient have resulted in its thorough infiltration of the food sector in some countries. Longitudinal studies have associated palm... Read More about Evidence on the magnitude of the economic, health and population effects of palm cooking oil consumption: an integrated modelling approach with Thailand as a case study.

Analysing the Policy Space for the Promotion of Healthy Sustainable Edible Oils in India (2019)
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Cuevas, S., Downs, S., Ghosh-Jerath, S., Aafrin, A., & Shankar, B. (2019). Analysing the Policy Space for the Promotion of Healthy Sustainable Edible Oils in India. Public Health Nutrition, 22(18), 3435-3446. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980019001836

OBJECTIVE:
To identify opportunities and challenges for the promotion of healthy, sustainable oil consumption in India.

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We use a framework for policy space analysis which distinguishes between policy context, process and characterist... Read More about Analysing the Policy Space for the Promotion of Healthy Sustainable Edible Oils in India.

Buy or make? Agricultural production diversity, markets and dietary diversity in Afghanistan (2019)
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Zanello, G., Shankar, B., & Poole, N. (2019). Buy or make? Agricultural production diversity, markets and dietary diversity in Afghanistan. Food Policy, 87, Article 101731. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2019.101731

Increasing on-farm production diversity and improving markets are recognized as ways to improve the dietary diversity of smallholders. Using instrumental variable methods to account for endogeneity, we study the interplay of production diversity, mar... Read More about Buy or make? Agricultural production diversity, markets and dietary diversity in Afghanistan.

Future diets in India: A systematic review of food consumption projection studies (2019)
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Alae-Carew, C., Bird, F. A., Choudhury, S., Harris, F., Aleksandrowicz, L., Milner, J., Joy, E. J., Agrawal, S., Dangour, A. D., & Green, R. (2019). Future diets in India: A systematic review of food consumption projection studies. Global Food Security, 23, 182-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2019.05.006

Against a backdrop of a rapidly changing food system and a growing population, characterisation of likely future diets in India can help to inform agriculture and health policies. We systematically searched six published literature databases and grey... Read More about Future diets in India: A systematic review of food consumption projection studies.

Dietary Transition in India: Temporal and Regional Trends, 1993 to 2012 (2019)
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Tak, M., Shankar, B., & Kadiyala, S. (2019). Dietary Transition in India: Temporal and Regional Trends, 1993 to 2012. Food and nutrition bulletin (Tokyo. Print), 40(2), 254-270. https://doi.org/10.1177/0379572119833856

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Rapid economic growth, urbanization, and globalization have resulted in dietary transformation in India. Triple burden of malnutrition remains a significant concern, with high prevalence of undernutrition, widespread micronutrient defici... Read More about Dietary Transition in India: Temporal and Regional Trends, 1993 to 2012.

Influencing resilience: The role of policy entrepreneurs in mainstreaming climate adaptation (2019)
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Tanner, T., Zaman, R., Acharya, S., Gogoi, E., & Bahadur, A. (2019). Influencing resilience: The role of policy entrepreneurs in mainstreaming climate adaptation. Disasters, 43(S3), S388-S411. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12338

One way to make development pathways more resilient in the face of a changing climate has been through mainstreaming adaptation into government policies, planning and sectoral decision‐making. To date, many of the transferable lessons have taken the... Read More about Influencing resilience: The role of policy entrepreneurs in mainstreaming climate adaptation.

Environmental justice and Chinese dam-building in the global South (2019)
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Siciliano, G., Del Bene, D., Scheidel, A., Liu, J., & Urban, F. (2019). Environmental justice and Chinese dam-building in the global South. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 37, 20-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2019.04.003

Chinese investments in large hydropower dams have rapidly increased all over the world in the last 20 years. Some of these projects have been contested both from a technological and political point of view due to the ways in which decisions have been... Read More about Environmental justice and Chinese dam-building in the global South.

Beyond PES and REDD+: Costa Rica on the way to climate-smart landscape management? (2019)
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Wallbott, L., Siciliano, G., & Lederer, M. (2019). Beyond PES and REDD+: Costa Rica on the way to climate-smart landscape management?. Ecology & Society, 24(1), 24. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10476-240124

Costa Rica has a strong international reputation for conservation and sustainable management of forests, including through its national payments for environmental services (PES) system and reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation... Read More about Beyond PES and REDD+: Costa Rica on the way to climate-smart landscape management?.

Economic Globalization, Nutrition and Health: a review of quantitative evidence (2019)
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Cuevas, S., Cornelsen, L., Smith, R. D., & Walls, H. (2019). Economic Globalization, Nutrition and Health: a review of quantitative evidence. Globalization and Health, 15(15), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-019-0456-z

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Unhealthy dietary patterns have in recent decades contributed to an endemic-level burden from non-communicable disease (NCDs) in high-income countries. In low- and middle-income countries rapid changes in diets are also increasingly link... Read More about Economic Globalization, Nutrition and Health: a review of quantitative evidence.

International trade, dietary change, and cardiovascular disease health outcomes: Import tariff reform using an integrated macroeconomic, environmental and health modelling framework for Thailand (2019)
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Jensen, H. T., Keogh-Brown, M. R., Shankar, B., Aekplakorn, W., Basu, S., Cuevas, S., Dangour, A. D., Gheewala, S. H., Green, R., Joy, E. J., Rojroongwasinkul, N., Thaiprasert, N., & Smith, R. D. (2019). International trade, dietary change, and cardiovascular disease health outcomes: Import tariff reform using an integrated macroeconomic, environmental and health modelling framework for Thailand. SSM - Population Health, 9, Article 100435. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100435

United Nations (UN) member states have, since 2011, worked to address the emerging global NCD crisis, but progress has, so far, been insufficient. Food trade policy is recognised to have the potential to impact certain major diet-related health and e... Read More about International trade, dietary change, and cardiovascular disease health outcomes: Import tariff reform using an integrated macroeconomic, environmental and health modelling framework for Thailand.

Palm oil and dietary change: Application of an integrated macroeconomic, environmental, demographic, and health modelling framework for Thailand (2019)
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Jensen, H. T., Keogh-Brown, M. R., Shankar, B., Aekplakorn, W., Basu, S., Cuevas, S., Dangour, A. D., Gheewala, S. H., Green, R., Joy, E. J., Rojroongwasinkul, N., Thaiprasert, N., & Smith, R. D. (2019). Palm oil and dietary change: Application of an integrated macroeconomic, environmental, demographic, and health modelling framework for Thailand. Food Policy, 83, 92-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2018.12.003

Palm oil is a cooking oil and food ingredient in widespread use in the global food system. However, as a highly saturated fat, palm oil consumption has been associated with negative effects on cardiovascular health, while large scale oil palm product... Read More about Palm oil and dietary change: Application of an integrated macroeconomic, environmental, demographic, and health modelling framework for Thailand.