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  Enhancing the nutritional quality of relief diets: workshop proceedings

  ProNUTRITION, 1999

  This paper reports on a workshop addressing the issue of nutritional quality of relief foods.
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  Guatemala City: a focus on working women and childcare

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper assesses the problems that female headed household face in terms of employment and childcare in Guatemala, and examines the impact of a public daycare programme on their employment opportunities and the nutrition of their children.Findings:the number of urban women who work for an income in Guatemala increased to 28% in 1999, 20% more than at the beginning of the decade.
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  Supplementation with beef or milk markedly improves vitamin B12 status of Kenya schoolers

  Global Livestock CRSP, 2002

  This paper reports on a two year controlled intervention with animal source foods, initiated in Embu, Kenya, to improve the micronutrient status of 6-9 year old rural Kenyan school children and test if animal source foods improve growth and cognitive function as well.Twelve schools were randomly assigned to three different but equi-calorific food supplements.
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  Thin end of the wedge – under and over-nutrition in Indian women

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Nutrition research in India focuses on under- nutrition. However, rates of obesity are rising, along with chronic diseases, such as heart disease and diabetes. Researchers from the Carolina Population Centre, USA, looked at factors linked to under and over-nutrition in Andhra Pradesh in southern India.
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  The size of the problem: malnutrition and obesity in urban India

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  The World Bank estimates that malnutrition costs India over US$ 10 billion each year due to lost productivity, illness and death. But the results of the largest ever survey of urban adults in India show that there is also a significant level of obesity. Health policy- makers must develop a dual approach to tackle these problems.
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  Why wait for post-conflict reconstruction?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Conflict is a major source of poverty in many developing countries and it also affects neighbouring countries. Why not try and avoid the human and economic costs during conflict? What economic strategies would be most fruitful? Research from the University of Oxford examined how Afghanistan, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Uganda ran their economies during war.
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  Red alert! Anaemia is widespread among women in Andhra Pradesh

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  South Asia has some of the highest rates of anaemia in the world, mirroring overall levels of malnutrition. Researchers from the University of North Carolina, USA, studied social and economic factors linked to anaemia in Andhra Pradesh, a southern Indian state. They found that anaemia is most common among poor urban women.
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  What are refugee camps good for? The plight of refugees in sub-Saharan Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Are refugee camps good for refugees? Are refugee camps good for Africa? Is this strategy for dealing with refugees a successful one for them and their host nations, African countries in particular?
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  Facing an uncertain future: The Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  During 1991 and 1992, more than 250 000 Rohingya Muslims sought refuge in Bangladesh from persecution by the army in Burma. Since then the bulk of them have been repatriated, but around 21 000 refugees remain in camps under difficult conditions.
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  Is the UNHCR doing its job?: Combining refugee relief with local development in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Food and water deprivation, inadequate health and education facilities, prison-like restrictions on freedom of movement, ethnic and gender violence, ad-hoc justice and collective punishment: this is how Cairo- based refugee scholar Barbara Harrell-Bond recently described the plight of many refugees in UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) camps in Africa.

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