Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia … transfer programs are aimed at addressing this, most are too small to have a marked effect in protecting or promoting nutrition …. Several supply-side food and agricultural interventions suggest promise in improving nutrition, although their effects have …

-Saharan Africa has been solid and has supported improvements in nutrition outcomes and poverty rates.Despite some relative gains …

Senegal issued a new nutrition policy, supporting a 10-year goal to improve nutrition through a community-based, multisectoral … approach. The policy was translated into the 10-year Nutrition Enhancement Program (NEP), financed by the government of Senegal … Nutrition enhancement project in support of the second phase of the NEP, and (3) the Rapid response child-focused social cash …

This paper examines the extent to which the three key underlying determinants of nutrition-food security; adequate … environment-on their own and interactively are correlated with nutrition outcomes, such as height-for-age z-scores. Based on data … component of the three underlying drivers of nutrition. In spite of the limitations inherent in the available data, the analysis …

potentially positive impacts on child nutrition …

individual welfare and particularly child nutrition status. This paper reviews the evidence on the effect of covariate shocks on … child nutrition status in low- and middle-income countries, the pathways through which the effect operates, and the … relationship between the timing of a child's exposure to a covariate shock and the effect on child nutrition status. The paper also …

international community around improving nutrition-the 176 members of the World Health Assembly endorsed the first-ever global … nutrition targets, focusing on six areas: stunting, anemia, low birthweight, childhood overweight, breastfeeding, and wasting …