Nutrition
Includes resources on all aspects of health and nutrition, including: emergency nutrition; food consumption and safety; malnutrition; maternal and child nutrition; nutrition and disease; nutrition and gender.
Latest Documents
- How can enabling environments and processes for scaling up nutrition be cultivated, sustained, and translated into results?
- S. Gillespie; L. Haddad; V. Mannar / The Lancet, 2013
- In the past 5 years, political discourse about the challenge of undernutrition has increased substantially at national and international levels and has led to stated commitments from many national governments, international organisati...
- Enhancing nutrition-sensitivity in programmes in agriculture, social safety nets, child development and schooling
- M.T. Ruel; H. Alderman / The Lancet, 2013
- Acceleration of progress in nutrition will require effective, large-scale nutrition-sensitive programmes that address key underlying determinants of nutrition and enhance the coverage and effectiveness of nutrition-specific interventi...
- What interventions reduce maternal and child undernutrition and mortality, and how much will it cost?
- Z.A. Bhutta; J.K. Das; A. Rizvi / The Lancet, 2013
- Maternal undernutrition contributes to 800,000 neonatal deaths annually; stunting, wasting, and micronutrient deficiencies are estimated to underlie nearly 3.1 million child deaths annually. Progress has been made with many interventi...
- Maternal and child health: examining both undernutrition and obesity
- R.E. Black; C.G. Victora; S.P. Walker / The Lancet, 2013
- Maternal and child undernutrition, including stunting, wasting, and deficiencies of essential vitamins and minerals, was the subject of a Series in The Lancet in 2008, which quantified their prevalence, short-term and long-term c...
- Nutrition – everybody’s business and nobody’s business: Nutrition within Norwegian development policy
- L.E. Torheim; M.M. de Paoli; R.D. Bezerra / Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway, 2012
- This tension – between Norwegian selfinterests on the one hand and the question of poverty reduction and social development for the world’s poor on the other - lies at the heart of this report. Nigeria is a very interestin...
- Food security and nutrition: the role of forests
- T. Sunderland / Center for International Forestry Research, 2013
- With a growing global population, much of the current discourse on food security is focussed on increasing agricultural production. However, studies suggest that food insecurity is not caused by lack of food production, but by inadequ...
- Nutrition interventions for older people in emergencies
- HelpAge International, 2013
- In emergency situations, older people may find it hard to access food. For example, when they are displaced, older people may face difficulties in registering for the general food rations, meet challenges in accessing food distributio...
- Links between Tenure Security and Food Security: Evidence from Ethiopia
- H. Ghebru / Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2012
- The study uses five rounds of household panel data from Tigray, Ethiopia, collected 1998–2010 to assess the impacts of a land registration and certification program that aimed to strengthen tenure security and how it has contribu...
- Open access nutrition training module
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2013
- Chronic undernutrition affects nearly 200 million children in low and middle income countries, with vitamin and mineral deficiencies affecting many more, and there is strong evidence that undernutrition is associated with up to 35% of...
- The Hunger And Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI 2012)
- D. Te Lintelo; L. Haddad; R. Lakshman / Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index, 2013
- The 2012 HANCI report finds that low income countries like Malawi and Madagascar and lower middle income Guatemala, are leading the charge against hunger and undernutrition, whilst economic powerhouses such as India and Nigeria are fa...
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