Nutrition actions in emergencies continue to be critical to mortality reduction and to achieving broader humanitarian … enhanced the prevention and treatment of many forms of malnutrition; these include wider adoption of new food products …, resulting in fewer avoidable deaths and growing success in the management of severe and moderate wasting, as well as …

This paper builds on the global experience and Mali?s context to identify an effective nutrition approach as well as … costs and benefits of key nutrition programs, as part of a resilience agenda after the crisis. It is intended to help guide … relevant nutrition-specific interventions, largely delivered through the health sector, and at multisectoral nutrition …

This paper estimates country-specific costs and benefits of scaling up key nutrition investments in Nigeria. Building … on the methodology established in the global report scaling up nutrition: what will it cost? Authors first estimate the … costs and benefits of a nationwide scale up of ten effective nutrition-specific interventions. This will require an annual …

nutrition-specific determinants of undernutrition in Bhutan, among them diarrheal diseases, high parasite loads in parts of the … all the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Yet two major indicators of significant undernutrition remain persistently … nutrition-sensitive, such as diseases related to environmental and personal hygiene. The most important causes of stunting are …

and other food and nutrition programmes. Bibliography and statistical tables. …ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on basic needs satisfaction and industrialization policy regarding food products in … Mexico - analyses food consumption among low income families and income distribution and indicates changes in habits …

Global food aid is considered a critical consumption smoothing mechanism in many countries. However, its record of … stabilizing consumption has been mixed. This paper examines the cyclical properties of food aid with respect to food availability … transition economies, covering 1970 to 2000. The results show that global food aid has been allocated to countries most in need …

The paper is a documentation of a (non-representative) survey on the food situation of households in the Grodno region …, Belarus. It covers the year between September 2000 and August 2001. The focus of the survey was on the sources of food in the … well balanced diet based on potatoes and vegetables as the main staple food. 75 percent of the households use small land …

870 million people going hungry, according to estimates by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations … communities; for country-level policymakers in food-insecure countries; and for development and humanitarian practitioners. …