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The Drought and Food Crisis in the Horn of Africa : Impacts and Proposed Policy Responses for Kenya
World Bank - 2011
This policy note provides an assessment of some of the impacts and proposed policy responses to problems related to the drought, including the rise in food prices. To address immediate needs, the humanitarian response to the drought is being managed by the Government of Kenya and a number of...
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Malnutrition, what can be done? : lessons from World Bank experience
Berg, Alan D. - 1987
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Improving child nutrition outcomes in India : can the integrated child development services be more effective?
Das Gupta, Monica - 2005
"Levels of child malnutrition in India fell only slowly during the 1990s, despite significant economic growth and large …. The states with the greatest need for the program - the poor northern states with high levels of child malnutrition and …
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Enriching lives : overcoming vitamin and mineral malnutrition in developing countries
1994
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Improving Nutrition Through Multisectoral Approaches
World Bank - 2013
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 activities within social protection interventions to...
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Improving Nutrition through Multisectoral Approaches
World Bank - 2014
Nutrition sensitive agriculture aims to maximize the impact of nutrition outcomes for the poor, while minimizing the unintended negative nutritional consequences of agricultural interventions and policies on the poor, especially women and young children. It is agriculture with a nutrition lens,...
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Nutrition
World Bank - 2012
Reducing malnutrition is a cornerstone of poverty reduction. General malnutrition and specific micronutrient … mortality. Because malnutrition is often due to a combination of inadequate care of women and children, a comprehensive strategy …
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Africa Can Help Feed Africa : Removing Barriers to Regional Trade in Food Staples
World Bank - 2012
Africa's growing demand for food has been met increasingly by imports from the global market. This, coupled with rising … impacts on poverty. The report highlights the range of barriers to food trade in Africa along the entire value chain. The … that will arise in dealing with the political economy constraints that have until now blocked the capacity of Africa to …
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From slash-and-burn to replanting : green revolutions in the Indonesian uplands?
Ruf, Francois (contributor); Lancon, Frederic (contributor) - 2004
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