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Policy making in Sub-Saharan Africa commonly assume that food and nutrition security programs that target food insecure … (in)security, where we determine whether distributional analysis of people's nutrition can reliably predict women … undernutrition, where an average of 30% of malnourished women were located outside of 40% of the households whose food insecurity …
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Nearly one in three children under age five in the Philippines is stunted, a key marker of undernutrition. This rate is … of stunting in the Philippines, using data from the 2015 National Nutrition Survey. Potential drivers are analyzed … associations with stunting. The results point to a series of policy priorities to reduce stunting: supporting the nutrition and …
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; dietary preferences related to religion and ethnicity; nutrition education; and administration of public health and nutrition …
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The Republic of Yemen has undergone a profound transformation following the escalation of conflict in March 2015. There has been an increase in violence, a disruption in supply chains due to a tightening of the ports, and a decline in the general economic climate that has left a large share of...
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Current approaches to measuring food and nutrition security (FNS) mainly consider past access to food, while assessing … dynamic (time axiom); conditioned to various factors (access axiom); applicable to various measures of food and nutrition as …
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nutrition (GPN). Foresight studies agree that it will be challenging to transform the agri-food system into one that is …
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impact of the World Bank-supported programs on nutrition outcomes. Specifically, the review addresses the following four … of Bank-supported programs with anthropometric impacts? Although many different dimensions of child nutrition could be … nutrition outcome indicators in the literature and the ones most frequently monitored by national nutrition programs supported …
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specific community-based nutrition (CBN) activities also delivered within HEP serve to link nutrition, family planning, and …
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This paper builds on the global experience and Mali s context to identify an effective nutrition approach as well as … costs and benefits of key nutrition programs, as part of a resilience agenda after the crisis. It is intended to help guide … relevant nutrition-specific interventions, largely delivered through the health sector, and at multisectoral nutrition …
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Even though substantial progress has been achieved worldwide in reducing both poverty and malnutrition, much is yet to be done. There are signs that the progress made in both dimensions has stalled in recent years. This special issue of Policy in Focus is dedicated to answering a crucial...
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