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  Enhancing food production and food security through improved inputs: an evaluation of Tanzania's National Agricultural Input Voucher Scheme (NAIVS) with a focus on gender impacts

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2014

  Raising agricultural productivity is the principal challenge facing African agriculture, including in Tanzania. Agriculture in Tanzania accounts to 27 percent of GDP, 80 percent of employment, 75 percent of household income and is a key component for the country strategy for poverty reduction.
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  Measures, spatial profile and determinants of dietary diversity: evidence from India

  Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014

  Food security policies in developing countries generally focus on calorie intake, which is not sufficient to tackle the triple burden of malnutrition: undernourishment, micronutrient deficiencies and over-nutrition. Consumption of a diverse diet is important to lessen the burden and is constrained by different factors.
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  Impact of education and provision of complementary feeding on growth and morbidity in children less than 2 years of age in developing countries: a systematic review

  BMC Public Health, 2013

  About one third of deaths in children less than 5 years of age are due to underlying undernutrition.
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  Food for thought: Are school feeding programmes effective in improving educational outcomes?

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2009

  3ie Brief No. 7, March 2009 Existing evidence: School feeding leads to better educational outcomes, though results are more positive for school enrolment and attendance than for cognitive performance.
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  Pro-nutrition agriculture in India: entry points and policy options

  Public Health Foundation of India, 2011

  Nutrition security has acquired a sense of urgency in the wake of dramatic surge in food prices since 2005, the ensuing economic crisis and the stubbornly high food inflation rates. These concerns dovetail with the recent renewed emphasis on pro-poor agricultural policies aimed at improving food production and marketing systems and policy measures to augment access to food for the poor.
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  National scale-up of zinc promotion in Nepal: results from a post-project population-based survey

  Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2011

  The World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund recommend using a new oral rehydration solution (ORS) plus zinc supplementation for 10-14 days for the treatment of diarrhoea in children aged less than five years.
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  Specialisation or diversification? Divergent perspectives on rice farming in three large dam-irrigated areas in the Sahel

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2014

  This report is based on the main lessons and recommendations from three case studies analysing the strategies, aspirations and constraints of the various types of farmers living around the dams of Bagré (Burkina Faso), Sélingué (Mali) and Niandouba/Confluent (Senegal).
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  Prevalence and determinants of chronic malnutrition among preschool children: a cross-sectional study in Dhaka city, Bangladesh

  Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2011

  Chronic malnutrition is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality among preschool children and the future productivity of nations.
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  Effect of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) on Malnutrition of Infants in Rajasthan, India: A Mixed Methods Study

  PLoS ONE, 2012

  This paper aims to analyse the effect of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), a wage-foremployment policy of the Indian Government, on infant malnutrition and delineate the pathways through which MGNREGA affects infant malnutrition.
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  A systematic review of community hand washing interventions leading to changes in hygiene behavior in the developing world

  Global Journal of Medicine and Public Health, 2012

  Educational interventions in hygienic practices have shown to be cost effective methods of controlling diarrhea and other diseases spread through poor hygiene. Hand washing is one method of breaking the chain of transmission between household contacts, and especially between mother and child.

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