The World Bank and The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) jointly developed this report to calculate the potential … human and economic benefits to be gained from increasing nutrition investments in the Kyrgyz Republic. This report provides … compelling evidence of the potential to improve health and economic outcomes through scaling up effective nutrition interventions …

estimates that less than ten percent of government, and non-government expenditures, with an explicit nutrition, or food … security component, is devoted to effective programs serving the neediest - poor pregnant women, and malnourished children … under two. Public and private expenditures on nutrition are often misdirected, for although Bolivia did achieve successes in …

vulnerable populations such as pregnant women and children less than 24 months; 2) include nutrition education and counseling … investments and policies, with a special focus on under nutrition among women and children under two years of age in developing …The objectives of the nutrition sensitive social protection are: 1) target activities to the most nutritionally …

children. It is agriculture with a nutrition lens, and should not detract from the sector's own goals. The agriculture sector …Nutrition sensitive agriculture aims to maximize the impact of nutrition outcomes for the poor, while minimizing the … lives. Agricultural productivity, focused primarily on staple grains, does not necessarily reduce under nutrition. Policies …

The report seeks to analyze what has been learned about how agricultural interventions influence nutrition outcomes in … agriculture and nutrition outcomes. The report identifies a number of developments in agriculture and nutrition that have … transformed the context in which nutrition is affected by agriculture. The relationship between agriculture and human nutrition is …

mortality. Because malnutrition is often due to a combination of inadequate care of women and children, a comprehensive strategy …