Safety Nets Can Help Address the Risks to Nutrition from Increasing Climate Variability

Models of climate change predict increased variability of weather as well as changes in agro-ecology. The increased variability will pose special challenges for nutrition. This study reviews evidence on climate shocks and nutrition and estimates the economic consequences in terms of reduced schoolin...

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Main Author:	Alderman, H.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Adult Agriculture Child Climate Change Disasters Food Supply Humans Nutritional Physiological Phenomena Public Policy Relief Work
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5050

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spelling	okr-10986-50502021-04-23T14:02:20Z Safety Nets Can Help Address the Risks to Nutrition from Increasing Climate Variability Alderman, H. Adult Agriculture Child Climate Change Disasters Food Supply Humans Nutritional Physiological Phenomena Public Policy Relief Work Models of climate change predict increased variability of weather as well as changes in agro-ecology. The increased variability will pose special challenges for nutrition. This study reviews evidence on climate shocks and nutrition and estimates the economic consequences in terms of reduced schooling and economic productivity stemming from nutritional insults in childhood. Panel data covering up to 20 y indicate that that short-term climate shocks have long-term impacts on children that persist, often into their adult lives. Other studies document the potential for relief programs to offset these shocks providing that the programs can be implemented with flexible financing, rapid identification of those affected by the shock, and timely scale-up. The last of these presumes that programs are already in place with contingency plans drawn up. Arguably, direct food distribution, including that of ready-to-use therapeutic food, may be part of the overall strategy. Even if such programs are too expensive for sustainable widespread use in the prevention of malnutrition, scalable food distribution programs may be cost effective to address the heightened risk of malnutrition following weather-related shocks. 2012-03-30T07:31:01Z 2012-03-30T07:31:01Z 2010 Journal Article J Nutr 1541-6100 (Electronic) 0022-3166 (Linking) http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5050 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article
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description	Models of climate change predict increased variability of weather as well as changes in agro-ecology. The increased variability will pose special challenges for nutrition. This study reviews evidence on climate shocks and nutrition and estimates the economic consequences in terms of reduced schooling and economic productivity stemming from nutritional insults in childhood. Panel data covering up to 20 y indicate that that short-term climate shocks have long-term impacts on children that persist, often into their adult lives. Other studies document the potential for relief programs to offset these shocks providing that the programs can be implemented with flexible financing, rapid identification of those affected by the shock, and timely scale-up. The last of these presumes that programs are already in place with contingency plans drawn up. Arguably, direct food distribution, including that of ready-to-use therapeutic food, may be part of the overall strategy. Even if such programs are too expensive for sustainable widespread use in the prevention of malnutrition, scalable food distribution programs may be cost effective to address the heightened risk of malnutrition following weather-related shocks.
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author	Alderman, H.
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title	Safety Nets Can Help Address the Risks to Nutrition from Increasing Climate Variability
title_short	Safety Nets Can Help Address the Risks to Nutrition from Increasing Climate Variability
title_full	Safety Nets Can Help Address the Risks to Nutrition from Increasing Climate Variability
title_fullStr	Safety Nets Can Help Address the Risks to Nutrition from Increasing Climate Variability
title_full_unstemmed	Safety Nets Can Help Address the Risks to Nutrition from Increasing Climate Variability
title_sort	safety nets can help address the risks to nutrition from increasing climate variability
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Safety Nets Can Help Address the Risks to Nutrition from Increasing Climate Variability

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