Food security, poverty, and nutrition policy analysis
Subtitle: statistical methods and policy applications
By: edited by Suresh C. Babu and Prabuddha Sanyal
Contributors: International Food Policy Research Institute; ScienceDirect (Online service)
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
ISBN-13: 9780080878867; 9780123747129
Subjects: Statistical methods; Mathematical models; Food supply; Nutrition policy; Decision making
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.

Electronic reproduction.
Table of contents: title: Section I: Food security policy analysis; title: 1. Introduction to food security: concepts and measurement; title: 2. Implications of technological change, post-harvest technology and technology adoption for improved food security - application of t- Statistic; title: 3. Effects of commercialization of agriculture (shift from traditional crop to cash crop) on food consumption and nutrition - application of chi-square statistic; title: 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; title: 5. Changes in food consumption patterns: The issue and its importance to food security - application of one-way ANOVA; title: 6. Impact of market access on food security - application of factor analysis; title: Section II: Nutrition policy analysis; title: 7. Impact of maternal education and care on preschoolers' nutrition - application of two-way ANOVA; title: 8. Indicators and causal factors of nutrition - application of correlation analysis; title: 9. Effects of individual, household and community indicators on child's nutritional status - application of simple linear regression; title: 10. Female education and community characteristics as indicators of nutritional status of children - application of multivariate regression; title: Section III: Special topics on poverty, nutrition, and food policy analysis; title: 11. Predicting child nutritional status using related socio-economic variables - application of discriminant function analysis; title: 12. Measurement and determinants of poverty - application of logistic regression models; title: 13. Classifying households on food security and poverty dimensions - application of K-mean cluster analysis; title: 14. Household care as a determinant of nutritional status - application of instrumental variable estimation; title: 15. Achieving an ideal diet - modeling with linear programming; title: Technical appendices; title: Statistical tables.