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Reducing malnutrition is a cornerstone of poverty reduction. General malnutrition and specific micronutrient deficiencies contribute to infant, child, and maternal morbidity; decreased learning capacity; lower productivity and higher mortality. Because malnutrition is often due to a combination...
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estimates that less than ten percent of government, and non-government expenditures, with an explicit nutrition, or food … under two. Public and private expenditures on nutrition are often misdirected, for although Bolivia did achieve successes in … the advancement of nutrition over the past twenty years, the problem of malnutrition still requires action on several …
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The objectives of the nutrition sensitive social protection are: 1) target activities to the most nutritionally … vulnerable populations such as pregnant women and children less than 24 months; 2) include nutrition education and counseling …) integrate nutrition services into Social Protection (SP) interventions; and 4) reduce the acute and long-term negative financial …
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Nutrition sensitive agriculture aims to maximize the impact of nutrition outcomes for the poor, while minimizing the … children. It is agriculture with a nutrition lens, and should not detract from the sector's own goals. The agriculture sector … lives. Agricultural productivity, focused primarily on staple grains, does not necessarily reduce under nutrition. Policies …
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estimates that less than ten percent of government, and non-government expenditures, with an explicit nutrition, or food … under two. Public and private expenditures on nutrition are often misdirected, for although Bolivia did achieve successes in … the advancement of nutrition over the past twenty years, the problem of malnutrition still requires action on several …
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This paper estimates country-specific costs and benefits of scaling up key nutrition investments in Nigeria. Building … on the methodology established in the global report scaling up nutrition: what will it cost? Authors first estimate the … costs and benefits of a nationwide scale up of ten effective nutrition-specific interventions. This will require an annual …
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evidence of program impact on child nutrition status in villages with ICDS centers. "--World Bank web site …
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young children. A combination of income growth and nutrition interventions are therefore suggested to adequately tackle this … joint contribution of income growth and nutrition interventions toward the reduction of malnutrition. Using a four … household income and the presence of nutrition interventions in the community. The results show that better nutrition is …
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