Cheryl Christensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3628699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cheryl Christensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cheryl |
| FAMILY NAME | Christensen |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTENSEN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, Maryland, U.S.A. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Designing programs to improve diets for maternal and child health
Improving maternal and child nutrition in resource-poor settings requires effective use of limited resources, but priority-setting is constrained by limited information about program costs and impacts, especially for interventions designed to improve diet quality. This study utilized a mixed methods approach to identify, describe and estimate the potential costs and impacts on child dietary intake of 12 nutrition-sensitive programs in Ethiopia, N…
The new policy environment for food aid
The Right to Food
The article accepts the idea of a right to food as a socially basic right - everyone's minimum reasonable claims on the rest of humanity. It then tries to determine whether, and how, a global right to food might become a reality for the present generation of hungry people. Physical constraints to increased agricultural production, while important, are not insurmountable barriers to achieving a right to food. More fundamental are choices about the…
World hunger
Chronic hunger is rooted in poverty and radically unequal distributions of income and assets, within and across countries. In market or quasi-market systems, the distribution of income and assets structures both food consumption patterns and food production systems. Radical inequality leads to structures which make it difficult to eliminate hunger, both because they increase the quantity of food needed to do so and because they support production…
World hunger
Chronic hunger is rooted in poverty and radically unequal distributions of income and assets, within and across countries. In market or quasi-market systems, the distribution of income and assets structures both food consumption patterns and food production systems. Radical inequality leads to structures which make it difficult to eliminate hunger, both because they increase the quantity of food needed to do so and because they support production…
The new policy environment for food aid
Designing programs to improve diets for maternal and child health
Improving maternal and child nutrition in resource-poor settings requires effective use of limited resources, but priority-setting is constrained by limited information about program costs and impacts, especially for interventions designed to improve diet quality. This study utilized a mixed methods approach to identify, describe and estimate the potential costs and impacts on child dietary intake of 12 nutrition-sensitive programs in Ethiopia, N…
The Right to Food
The article accepts the idea of a right to food as a socially basic right - everyone's minimum reasonable claims on the rest of humanity. It then tries to determine whether, and how, a global right to food might become a reality for the present generation of hungry people. Physical constraints to increased agricultural production, while important, are not insurmountable barriers to achieving a right to food. More fundamental are choices about the…
World hunger
Chronic hunger is rooted in poverty and radically unequal distributions of income and assets, within and across countries. In market or quasi-market systems, the distribution of income and assets structures both food consumption patterns and food production systems. Radical inequality leads to structures which make it difficult to eliminate hunger, both because they increase the quantity of food needed to do so and because they support production…
The new policy environment for food aid
Designing programs to improve diets for maternal and child health
Improving maternal and child nutrition in resource-poor settings requires effective use of limited resources, but priority-setting is constrained by limited information about program costs and impacts, especially for interventions designed to improve diet quality. This study utilized a mixed methods approach to identify, describe and estimate the potential costs and impacts on child dietary intake of 12 nutrition-sensitive programs in Ethiopia, N…
Economics (4 works) · Food security (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Microeconomics (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Poverty (2 works) · Production (economics (2 works)