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Table of 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 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: 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. Maternal 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 socioeconomic 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 16. Food and Nutrition Program Evaluation
