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Although diet structure and activity throughout the developing world have shifted drastically over the past several decades, little is known about effective policies to influence the supply and demand for food to control the undesirable effects, such as obesity, heart disease and cancer, of...
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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 …
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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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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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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 … and introducing new proven interventions to reduce the direct causes of under nutrition in order to support the Kyrgyz …
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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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