There is widespread interest in the number of hungry people in the world and trends in hunger. Current global counts … expenditure surveys. Recent research has advocated for calculating hunger numbers directly from these same surveys. For either … are then used. Using a survey experiment in Tanzania, this study finds great fragility in hunger counts stemming from …

undernourishment (hunger), largely through gaining farmers and others access to productivity-enhancing equipment, translating into …

Ethiopia has one of the highest child malnutrition rates in the world. A considerable effort to monitor child … malnutrition rates over the last two decades shows that, despite some improvements, approximately half of the children under five … are still malnourished. Much of the burden of deaths resulting from malnutrition, estimated to be over half of childhood …

Malnutrition is associated with an inadequate diet, poor health and sanitation services, and insufficient care for … joint contribution of income growth and nutrition interventions toward the reduction of malnutrition. Using a four … clear that if one intends to halve malnutrition rates by 2015 (the Millennium Development Goals objective), income growth …

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 …

One of the major limitations in addressing child malnutrition is lack of information that could be used to target … of the prevalence of child malnutrition in Cambodia from currently available 17 DHS strata into 1,594 communes. The … jointly estimate multiple indicators and to allow for a richer structure of error terms. Average standard errors for the …

eradicating hunger, nor will only increased food production. The region's contribution to high and volatile international food …