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    Prevalence of vitamin A deficiency in South Asia: causes, outcomes, and possible remedies

    Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2013
    Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) has been recognised as a public health issue in developing countries. Economic constraints, sociocultural limitations, insufficient dietary intake, and poor absorption leading to depleted vitamin A stores in the body have been regarded as potential determinants of the prevalence of VAD in South Asian developing countries.
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    Climate justice & human rights - Focus on food security, nutrition, health and gender

    Action contre la Faim, 2014
    This paper presents a set of recommendations on how the international community, governments, UN and social movements can bring issues of food security, nutrition, health and gender equity into climate negotiations.The brief was launched during the COP20 in Lima.
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    Agriculture and child under-nutrition in India: a state level analysis

    Madras School of Economics, India, 2014
    The basic rationale for exploring agriculture-nutrition linkage in developing countries is the existence of high level of undernutrition among rural population and a high level of their dependence on agriculture for livelihood.
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    Writing About Nutrition in Indian Newspapers: Lessons Learned from the OneWorld POSHAN Media Fellowship

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014
    To try to raise the profile of nutrition in the Indian media, POSHAN and the OneWorld Foundation, India (OWFI) co-implemented the six-month OneWorld-POSHAN Fellowship on Maternal and Child Undernutrition. 
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    Effective modalities to improve pregnant women’s compliance to daily iron supplementation

    Ethiopian Public Health Institute, 2012
    Prenatal Iron Supplementation (PIS) has a paramount contribution for reducing maternal mortality. The coverage and compliance in Ethiopia is 17.3 per cent and 0.4 per cent respectively. The aim of this study is to determine the coverage of and adherence to prenatal IFS (Iron Folic acid Supplementation) and to identify factors affecting utilization of the service.
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    Strengthening public health nutrition education in India

    Transform Nutrition, 2014
    Malnutrition remains a major challenge for public health and for human and economic  development in India. A lack of adequately trained public health professionals and  nutritionists means that this challenge is not being met. Due to resource constraints,  the most realistic way of improving this situation is to optimise the use of existing 
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    Building healthier supply chains: the business case

    Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, 2014
    It is increasingly clear that the economic health of countries, and of individuals, is directly tied to good nutrition. It is not difficult to see that this impact on productivity, lost future workforce and increased absenteeism due to sickness also has a substantial impact on business.
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    Climate change, crop production and child under nutrition in Ethiopia; a longitudinal panel study

    BMC Public Health, 2014
    Background: The amount and distribution of rainfall and temperature influences household food availability, thus increasing the risk of child under nutrition. However, few studies examined the local spatial variability and the impact of temperature and rainfall on child under nutrition at a smaller scale (resolution).
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    Child undernutrition in Kenya: trend analyses from 1993 to 2008-09

    BMC Medicine, 2014
    Background: Research on trends in child undernutrition in Kenya has been hindered by the challenges of changing criteria for classifying undernutrition, and an emphasis in the literature on international comparisons of countries’ situations. There has been little attention to within-country trend analyses.
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    Measuring progress toward empowerment Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index: baseline report

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014
    This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) baseline survey results, summarising both findings from the WEAI survey and the relationships between the WEAI and various outcomes of interest to the US Government’s Feed the Future initiative.

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