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SCN News No 03 - Does Cash Cropping Affect Nutrition

UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Published in : 1989

Available in : English

Food first, or agriculture for export? Does growing food protect nutrition, whereas cash-cropping cause famines? Are subsistence farmers lured into the cash economy, growing inedible crops and then finding themselves unable to feed their families? Based on recent research and new thinking, some tentative answers to such questions are now being found.

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SCN News No 3 (PDF, 985.53Kb)

Originally posted at : UNSCN - Publications

This resource is listed under:

Themes : Emergency, general, Household Food Security and community nutrition, general, Micronutrients, general, Nutrition and food systems, general, Nutrition and HIV/AIDS, general, Nutrition assessments and M&E, general, Undernutrition, general, Food chain, food production and processing, Iron / Anaemia, Local foods, Local foods, Local foods, Micronutrient deficiencies, Micronutrient deficiencies, PMTCT, PMTCT, PMTCT, Socio-economic, Underweight, Vitamin A / Night blindness

Life-cycle focus : Adulthood

Resource types : Newsletters

Locations : Gambia, Kenya, Mexico, Philippines, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Western Africa

Working groups : Capacity Development in Food and Nutrition, Household Food Security, Micronutrients, Nutrition and HIV/AIDS, Nutrition in Emergencies, Nutrition, Ethics and Human Rights