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
- 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...
- Prioritising nutrition in order to achieve the MDGs in India
- V. Kumar / Young Lives, 2012
- Malnutrition causes long-term damage to children’s development, with huge social and economic costs. It affects not only children’s physical development but also their cognitive development, so reducing future productivity...
- Summary Findings of Cross-sectional Nutrition Surveys in Northern Nigeria, December 2010
- 2010
- This study present the summary of a cross-section anthropometric and mortality survey undertaken 8 different states in Northern Nigeria. The main objective was to determine nutritional status of children under five years of age and wo...
- Rapid Socio Cultural Assessment Report Damaturu and Fune LGAs, Yobe State, Nigeria, March-May 2011
- M. Ireene 2011
- This paper presents a report on some socio-cultural assessment carried out in Damaturu and Fune Local Government Areas of Yobe State, northern Nigeria. The general objective was to collect and compile information about communities cov...
- The Double Burden of Obesity and Malnutrition in a Protracted Emergency Setting: A Cross-Sectional Study of Western Sahara Refugees
- S. Carlos / PLoS Medicine, 2010
- Background Households from vulnerable groups experiencing epidemiological transitions are known to be affected concomitantly by under-nutrition and obesity. Yet, it is unknown to what extent this double burden affects refugee populati...
- Household and Commuinty Socio-economic and Environmental Determinants of Child Nutritional Status in Cameroon
- P. Roland / BioMed Central, 2006
- This study was conducted to determine the household and community level socio-economic and environmental factors associated with child nutritional status in Cameroon, and changes in the effects of these factors during the 1990s econom...
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