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The performance of Bulgarian food markets during reform
Larson, Donald F. - 2009
"Food policy often depends on markets and markets depend on institutions. But how good do institutions have to be … Bulgaria and the World Bank on agricultural market institutions, this paper presents evidence that performance in food markets …
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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 public spending on the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) program, of which the major component is supplementary feeding for malnourished children. To unravel this...
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Health, nutrition & population
1997
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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
is best placed to influence food production and the consumption of nutritious foods necessary for healthy and active …
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From Agriculture to Nutrition : Pathways, Synergies and Outcomes
World Bank - 2007
far more complex than the relationship between food production and food consumption or the economic relationship between … food supply and food demand. Expanding agriculture's purview and capacity to embrace those contributing factors and …
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Nutrition
World Bank - 2012
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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Guinea - Moving Towards Food Security
World Bank - 2012
productivity and production, incomes of farmers and food security. Initiated in 1996, the food security component of this project … was undertaken in conjunction with the Food and Agriculture Organization's Special Program for Food Security (SPFS). SPFS …, approved by the FAO Board in June 1994, had the objective of helping countries with low revenues and a food deficit to rapidly …
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Food Policy Options : Preventing and Controlling Nutrition Related Non-Communicable Diseases
World Bank - 2013
decades, little is known about effective policies to influence the supply and demand for food to control the undesirable …) recognition of the limitations of conventional food policies; ii) demanding truth in advertising; iii) harnessing the influence of …
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