Research Catalog

Title

Food security, poverty, and nutrition policy analysis : statistical methods and policy applications / edited by Suresh C. Babu and Prabuddha Sanyal.

Publication

Burlington, MA : Academic Press, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Babu, Suresh Chandra.
• International Food Policy Research Institute. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79026884
• Sanyal, Prabuddha.

Description

xix, 409 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.

Subject

• Food supply > Mathematical models
• Nutrition policy > Statistical methods

Note

• "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.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-396) and index.

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 -- Technical appendices -- Statistical tables.

ISBN

• 9780123747129
• 0123747120

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library