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  Nutrition security of women and children in India: opportunity for building partnership with Low Income Countries (LIC)

  Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014

  Malnutrition is often incorrectly perceived merely as a food problem. Under nutrition, hunger and food insecurity are not the same thing. Malnutrition is a complex multi-determinant problem. Malnutrition is a result of impact of immediate causes of malnutrition - diet and infection.
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  Relationship between mothers’ nutritional knowledge in childcare practices and the growth of children living in impoverished rural communities

  Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2014

  The prevalence of chronic malnutrition among under-five children remains persistently high in Ghana. For example, in the Northern Region of Ghana, 32.5% of children below five years are stunted, 12.9% wasted, and 21.8% underweight. Inadequate childcare practices are fundamental to addressing malnutrition among children.
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  Application of the Water Poverty Index at the districts of Yellow River Basin

  Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning, 2011

  As one assessment method of the water resources, Water Poverty Index has become an available tool in water resources management for it simply calculation process, comprehensive understanding of the results. This paper introduces the concept of the Water Poverty Index, and applies it at these districts of Yellow River Basin by using equal weightings methodology.
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  Effect of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) on Malnutrition of Infants in Rajasthan, India: A mixed methids study

  PLoS ONE, 2013

  This paper analyses the effect of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), a wage-for-employment policy of the Indian Government, on infant malnutrition and delineate the pathways through which MGNREGA affects infant malnutrition.
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  The national employment guarantee scheme and inequities in household spending on food and non-food determinants of health in rural India

  International Journal for Equity in Health, 2013

  Inequities in a population in spending on food and non-food items can contribute to disparities in health status. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) was launched in rural India in 2006, aimed at providing at least 100 days of manual work to a member in needy households.
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  Quantitative assessment of the effectiveness of drip irrigation kits in alleviating food shortages and its success in Zimbabwe: a case study of Gweru and Bikita districts

  Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2008

  About 23,000 drip kits were distributed in 53 districts of Zimbabwe by 20 NonGovernmental Organizations with the assistance of LEAD Zimbabwe and USAID/OFDA between 2003 and 2006. The program’s objective was to mitigate the food shortage crisis in Zimbabwe by helping families grow their own vegetables and earn extra income.
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  Evaluation of USAID/OFDA small scale irrigation (treadle pump) program in ZAMBIA

  Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2008

  readle pumps are a low-cost technology that has proven effective in increasing small-holder productivity and incomes in Asia, and increasingly in selected parts of Africa. This additional household income provides for a more drought-resistant livelihood.
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  Does the urban disadvantage still hold? Have the lives of Nairobi’s urban poor improved?

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2014

  The Nairobi Cross-sectional Slums Survey of 2000 brought to light for the very first time, the plight of slum residents highlighting: their limited access to education, health care, reproductive health and family planning services; the debilitating environment including inadequate access to water and sanitation, poor housing conditions and poor livelihood opportunities.
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  Water wars: enduring myth or impending reality

  African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2000

  Within the context of the South, water security does not simply translate into economic development, but also food security, and the very survival of states and their citizens. Under these circumstances, it is hardly surprising that the World Commission on the Environment and Development (WCED) has concluded that such resource conflicts are likely to increase as those resources become scarcer.
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  Women’s Agricultural Work and Nutrition in Pakistan: Findings from Qualitative Research

  Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2015

  Does women’s work in agriculture help or hinder nutrition in Pakistan? This question has assumed great significance due to the steady feminisation, over the last decade, of the agricultural labour force, and the absence of nutritional improvement in the same period.

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