widespread but with significant urban-rural differences (52 percent versus 74 percent). Health, nutrition, and the fight against … population's health and nutrition status by linking health outcomes, household/individual behaviors, community factors …

This report explores the importance of nutrition for Tanzania. It demonstrates that the prevalence of malnutrition is … highlights the high (economic and welfare) costs associated to such high rates of malnutrition by discussing the consequence of … malnutrition for infant mortality, education outcomes, the health system and labor productivity. For nutrition to be successfully …

focus to illustrate general principles, and/or draw lessons for the broader health, nutrition, and population (HNP) sector …

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 …

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 …