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  A systematic assessment of the current capacity to act in nutrition in West Africa: cross-country similarities and differences

  2014

  Although it is widely accepted that lack of capacity is one of the barriers to scaling up nutrition in West Africa, there is a paucity of information about what capacities exist and the capacities that need to be developed to accelerate progress toward improved nutrition outcomes in the region.
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  Highlighting the evidence gap: how cost-effective are interventions to improve early childhood nutrition and development?

  Oxford Journals, 2014

  There is growing evidence of the effectiveness of early childhood interventions to improve the growth and development of children. Although, historically, nutrition and stimulation interventions may have been delivered separately, they are increasingly being tested as a package of early childhood interventions that improve outcomes over the life course.
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  Children’s multidimensional health and medium-run cognitive skills

  Young Lives, 2014

  By recognising the multifaceted nature of health, this paper engages in the lively debate on the effects of health in early childhood on educational outcomes in later life stages, bringing new evidence from four low-and middle-income countries.
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  South Africa's National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP): case study

  Home Grown School Feeding, 2013

  The National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) in South Africa is a large government sponsored programme reaching over 8 million learners in primary and secondary schools. The emphasis of the programme is on the provision of the daily balanced and diverse cooked meal, with nutrition education and sustainable food production being the other two pillars of the programme.
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  Poor nutrition status and associated feeding practices among HIV-positive children in a food secure region in Tanzania: a call for tailored nutrition training

  PLoS ONE, 2014

  Undernutrition among HIV-positive children can be ameliorated if they are given adequate foods in the right frequency and diversity. Food insecurity is known to undermine such efforts, but even in food rich areas, people have undernutrition.
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  Obesity update 2014

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2014

  Until 1980, fewer than one in ten people were obese in OECD countries. In the following decades, rates doubled or tripled, and are continuing to grow, and new data from ten OECD countries confirm that the obesity epidemic has not stopped spreading. This briefing makes the following key points:
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  Predictors of adolescent weight status and central obesity in rural South Africa

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2011

  In South Africa, high levels of overweight/obesity have been documented among adults. There is also some evidence of high levels of overweight/obesity in children and adolescents.
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  Overweight and obesity in urban Africa: A problem of the rich or the poor?

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

  Obesity is a well recognised risk factor for various chronic diseases such ascardiovascular diseases, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes mellitus. The aim of this study was to shed light on the patterns of overweight and obesity in sub-Saharan Africa, with special interest in differences between the urban poor and the urban non-poor.
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  Child growth in urban deprived settings: does household poverty status matter? At which stage of child development?

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2012

  This paper uses longitudinal data from two informal settlements of Nairobi, Kenya to examine patterns of child growth and how these are affected by four different dimensions of poverty at the household level namely, expenditures poverty, assets poverty, food poverty, and subjective poverty.
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  Does Ethiopia’s productive safety net program improve child nutrition ?

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2014

  The paper studies the link between Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) and short-run nutrition outcomes among children age 5 years and younger. It uses 2006 and 2010 survey data from Northern Ethiopia to estimate parameters of an exogenous switching regression.

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