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  Incorporating international best practices in the preparation of Agricultural Outlook and Situation Analysis Reports for India - Phase II: FAO/UNDP October–December 2013

  Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014

  Using the data from FAO and also consumption expenditure surveys of the National Sample Survey Organisation in India, this report also draws attention to the trends in food consumption. While there is a trend increase in the per capita consumption of calories and fats improvement in the consumption of proteins has been marginal over the years.
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  Dietary quality maintained among overweight Brazilian women enrolled in a primary healthcare service

  Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2014

  Food consumption assessment is essential for understanding the relationship between diet and morbidity/mortality events and for providing information about the determinants of food intake, which, in turn, leads to the identification of population groups at risk, making it subsequently possible to propose public health policies or programmes.
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  Workshop report: Food and nutrition security: building global partnerships through South-South cooperation

  Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014

  A workshop was organised on 16th April, 2014 on ‘Food and Nutrition Security: building global partnerships through south-south cooperation’ by DFID under its Knowledge Partnership Program at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
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  Food outlook: biannual report on global food markets: FAO/UNDP

  Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2013

  Food commodity markets are set to be more balanced in 2013/14, in particular cereals. The global food import bill is forecast to reach USD 1.09 trillion in 2013, 13 percent below the record of 2011 but close to the 2012 estimate, as higher bills for fish and livestock products are anticipated to offset lower expenditures on most other commodities, especially sugar.
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  Factors affecting actualisation of the WHO breastfeeding recommendations in urban poor settings in Kenya

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

  Poor breastfeeding practices are widely documented in Kenya, where only a third of children are exclusively breastfed for 6 months and only 2% in urban poor settings. This study aimed to better understand the factors that contribute to poor breastfeeding practices in two urban slums in Nairobi, Kenya.
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  Gender and Food Security In Brief

  BRIDGE, 2015

  This In Brief argues that tackling gender injustice and truly empowering women is not only a fundamental prerequisite for improving food and nutrition security. It needs to be seen as a goal in its own right. In Brief sets out a preliminary vision for gender-just food and nutrition security, which puts the right to food and gender justice at the centre of all interventions.
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  Nutritional outcomes related to household food insecurity among mothers in rural Malaysia

  Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2013

  During the past two decades, the rates of food insecurity and obesity have risen. Although a relationship between these two seemingly-paradoxical states has not been repeatedly seen in men, research suggests that a correlation between them exists in women. This study examines nutritional outcomes of household food insecurity among mothers in rural Malaysia.
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  Uncertainty of food security in Ghana by biofuel (jatropha curcas) production as an adaptation and mitigation capacity to climate change

  Ethiopian Journal of Environmental Studies and Management, 2014

  This study assessed the impact of biofuel (Jatropha curcas) production on food production and its climate change mitigation potential in Ghana. It recommends that experimental research be carried out for appropriate policies that will make biofuel production a win-win venture for Ghana.
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  Do Girls Have a Nutritional Disadvantage Compared with Boys? Statistical Models of Breastfeeding and Food Consumption Inequalities among Indian Siblings

  PLoS ONE, 2014

  India is the only nation where girls have greater risks of under-5 mortality than boys. The article explains whether female disadvantage in breastfeeding and food allocation accounts for gender disparities in mortality.
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  Value of insect pollinators to Himalayan agricultural economies

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2012

  This study assesses the economic value of pollination services, especially by insect pollinators, to agriculture in selected areas of the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region in order to highlight the need for initiatives to address the problem.

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