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    2014-2015 Global Food Policy Report

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2015
    This report puts into perspective the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions in 2014 and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2015. Drawing on rigorous research, IFPRI researchers and other distinguished food policy experts consider a wide range of crucial questions:
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    Emerging seed markets: the role of Brazilian, Chinese and Indian seeds in African agriculture

    Future Agricultures Consortium, 2014
    In recent years, three of the largest emerging powers, Brazil, China and India, have all brought about incredible agricultural revolutions and seeds have played a big part in that story. Nowadays, their seed markets are all within the world’s top ten in terms of value and their companies are eager to expand into new markets, particularly in Africa.
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    Is Reliable Water Access the Solution to Undernutrition?

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2015
    Interventions aimed at increasing water availability for livelihood and domestic activities have great potential to improve various determinants of undernutrition, such as the quantity and diversity of foods consumed within the household, income generation, and women’s empowerment. However, current evidence on the topic is diluted across many different publications.
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    Complementary Food Hygiene: An overlooked opportunity in the WASH, nutrition and health sectors

    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2015
    Poor complementary food hygiene may account for a substantial proportion of diarrhoeal diseases among infants and young children in developing countries, which in turn, account for a large proportion of the global burden of infectious disease. However, most of the information on food hygiene in low income countries derives from expert opinion and
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    Markets for Nutrition

    Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2015
    Making safe, nutrient-rich foods more accessible to people on low-incomes is one way to reduce micronutrient undernutrition (the lack of essential nutrients and minerals required by the body for healthy development).
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    Helpdesk Report: Short distance learning courses on development and nutrition

    Department for International Development, UK, 2010
    The University of London and the Open University are the main two academic institutions in the UK that run short, distance learning courses in development.
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    Helpdesk Report: How holistic water, sanitation, health and hygiene promotion investments represent value for money and represent positive effects on attendance, retention and learning

    Department for International Development, UK, 2010
    The multiple ways in which water, sanitation, and hygiene education in schools (WASH in Schools) contributes toward education – including attendance, retention and learning – is fairly well documented.
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    Helpdesk report: Education interventions and their impact on nutrition

    Department for International Development, UK, 2012
    This helpdesk query produces a report focused on nutrition interventions and their impact on school age children. In addition, it also considered a focus on any nutrition impacts on children of under two years of age (possibly indirect i.e. through intergenerational channels).
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    Helpdesk Report: Community-led Total Sanitation in Africa

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2013
    Evidence and comments suggest that Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) has been successful in some cases in Africa, however it is difficult to find strong data to support this.
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    Helpdesk Report: Education and nutrition

    Department for International Development, UK, 2011
    This Helpdesk paper provides an overview of the evidence on educational outcomes from nutrition and nutritional outcomes from education.  It includes the following sections: effects of intra-uterine growth retardation; low birth-weight, effects of poor infant nutrition (low weight, stunting, breastfeeding), iron deficiency anaemia in school age children, parental education and school healt

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