Thursday, April 30 / 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM   •   Aqua 311 A

Session 77:
Population, Agriculture, Economics, and Nutrition Security

Chair: Rajesh Kumar Rai, Society for Health and Demographic Surveillance
Chair: William Butz, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Discussant: William Butz, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

  1. Improving Access to Voluntary Family Planning Also Improves Food Security and Contributes to Climate StabilizationJ. Joseph Speidel, University of California, San Francisco ; Sarah Raifman, University of California, San Francisco ; Kirsten M.J. Thompson, University of California, San Francisco

  2. Land Use and Infant Mortality: Evidence from AfricaJoyce Shim, Dominican University ; Jacob Lesniewski, Dominican University ; Kiah Christiansen, Dominican University

  3. Do Spikes in Food Prices Increase the Risk of Malnutrition among Children? A Quasi-Natural Experiment Using Longitudinal Data in Andhra Pradesh, IndiaSukumar Vellakkal, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) ; Jasmine Fledderjohann, University of Oxford ; Sanjay Basu, Stanford University ; Sutapa Agrawal, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) ; Shah Ebrahim, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) ; Oona Campbell, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) ; Pat Doyle, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) ; David Stuckler, University of Oxford

  4. Can Family Planning Programmes Assist Food Security Mission in Underdeveloped and Developing Countries: Evidence from NigeriaChandan Kumar, Central University of Karnataka ; Prashant Kumar Singh, Institute for Human Development

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